Nathan Chantob finds a form of serenity amid the clamour, disorder and eagerness of the crowd.
Nathan Chantob, born in 1991 in Paris, is a painter who lives and works in Lille (France). He developed a passion for painting at an early age and decided to study illustration in Belgium after his secondary education. Influenced by both academic drawing and street art, Chantob creates canvases of spetacular realism in which the precision of the line is combined with spontaneous gestures. The shades of shadow and light in his paintings mingle with instinctive flows of paint, in order to leave room for lucky accidents to happen.
Nathan Chantob finds a form of serenity amid the clamour, disorder and eagerness of the crowd. This is what he expresses through the controlled chaos of his pictorial approach. His paintings have a poignant humanity that suggests more than it reveals, leaving the viewer's imagination to wander. The artist seeks a form of violence in colour, an organic sincerity that goes beyond words.
Over the course of his career, the young painter has won several prestigious awards. Among his most emblematic works is Diagonal Sheep, a colossal painting measuring almost 2 metres by 5 metres, created in situ, which demonstrates his mastery of large formats. He won the Aralya Prize in 2016, the Alain Brugnon Prize from the Taylor Foundation in 2022, and was a finalist for the Pierre David-Weill Prize from the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 2023.
Chantob is a hard worker and has a string of solo and group exhibitions every year. He keeps pushing the boundaries of his art, exploring new ways of expressing his relationship with people and space in his monumental compositions.