Visual artist & multidisciplinary creative

Works between Paris and New York

Julien Calot paints teeming worlds — filled with vibrant colors, expressive figures, animals, bustling cities, and inner landscapes. His large-scale canvases capture the energy of life in all its complexity: joyful, chaotic, tender, sometimes violent, but always full of movement.

His compositions blend figuration and abstraction in an instantly recognizable style, drawing inspiration from tribal art, European modernism, surf culture, and the pulse of contemporary cities. A swirling language of signs, lines, and forms tells stories without beginnings or ends — a kaleidoscope of emotion.

A self-taught painter, Julien also explores writing, music, photography, and filmmaking. His creative approach is instinctive and free, with no boundaries between disciplines — guided by the need to express what moves him.

In parallel, Julien is an acclaimed creative leader in the world of communication. He is Chief Creative Officer of McCann Paris, and Global Creative Director for L’Oréal brands. His unusual path — between art and advertising — has shaped a unique sensibility, both conceptual and sensual, emotionally driven and socially engaged.

His work has been exhibited in France (Paris, Lyon, La Rochelle) and internationally, including at Richard Taittinger Gallery in New York. He continues to explore — across continents, mediums and formats — in search of raw wonder, unstable balance, and living beauty.