Miles Hyman

Miles Hyman — Curriculum Vitae 2025

Miles Hyman was born in 1962 in Vermont, USA. From an early age, he developed an artistic sensibility nourished by both American and European visual culture. After secondary studies at Buxton School (Massachusetts), where he discovered 19th-century American and European painting—particularly Renoir, Pissarro, Monet, and Sisley at the Clark Art Institute—he pursued fine arts studies at Wesleyan University. At the age of eighteen, he made his first trip to France to study painting in Aix-en-Provence, before settling in Paris in 1985 to refine his practice at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts under painter Henri Clément. 

As a painter, Hyman’s work is marked by meticulous attention to light and composition. His pictorial universe lies at the crossroads of realism and dreamlike imagery, with a profoundly cinematic and literary perspective. His canvases explore the tensions between figuration and suggestion, precision and mystery, inviting the viewer into an implicit narrative. Silence, color, and carefully constructed perspectives give his works a particular intensity, transforming everyday scenes into images imbued with strangeness and poetry. 

Recognized on the international art scene, Miles Hyman began exhibiting in 1990 at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, before presenting his paintings in prestigious galleries: Galerie Rohwedder and Galerie Médicis in Paris, Galerie Papiers Gras in Geneva, Galerie Maeght in Barcelona, Galerie Michael in Beverly Hills and the Philippe Labaune Gallery in New York City. His works have also been presented in major contemporary art fairs, in Europe (Brafa Art Fair, Art Paris) and the United States (Art on Paper). 

In 2017, he was named Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters. 

Among his landmark exhibitions are Entre-deux Mondes (2017), a retrospective presented by the contemporary art center Les Ursulines in Quimperlé (France), followed by the Rome exhibition in 2019 in partnership with Éditions Louis Vuitton. On that occasion, the Istituto Centrale per la Grafica presented a series inspired by the Italian capital, highlighting his interest in urban atmospheres and the memory of places. More recently, the exhibitions Narrative Images (2021), Secret Lives (2023), and Undercurrents (2025) at Philippe Labaune Gallery (New York) have underscored his unique approach to visual storytelling. 

Also recently, he presented Ephemeria I (2024) to the Parisian public, an exhibition of about twenty works dedicated to the theme of time. The following year, the exhibition America (2025, Institut franco-américain de Rennes) brought together around sixty new paintings and drawings, executed in a variety of techniques. In 2026, the Huntsville Museum of Art (Alabama, USA) will host the retrospective Cinematic Visions, gathering more than sixty drawings and paintings. Hyman’s entire career bears witness to a constant quest: to capture the fragile moment when reality is infused with poetry, and when the image, between classical heritage and modernity, becomes the bearer of multiple stories.