Pier Fichefeux

Pier Fichefeux (b. 1976, Paris) is a French-American artist based on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi, with a studio on the slopes of Mauna Loa. After an early career through Fabrica (the Benetton research center in Italy) and years painting in Amsterdam and New York, he settled in Hawaiʻi, where the volcanic landscape became his collaborator.

Approach. Fichefeux works at the boundary between geological and human time, using the forces of the volcanic landscape — heat, weight, oxidation, duration — as agents in the making. He is known for large “sun exposures” on tar paper, laying rocks and scavenged metal on the surface and letting the elements weather and etch the image. The land is not a subject; it is a condition of the work.

Selected exhibitions. Wandering the Borderlands and Moi, Mauna Loa (2024); When we live in the garden of rock (2022); earlier shows in Paris, London, and Porto Cervo. He showed with Ontopo at NADA Miami (2024).

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