Renaud Muraire explores religious iconography through a contemporary visual language.

For more than twenty years, he has developed a figurative painting practice influenced by photography, fashion imagery and contemporary visual culture. His work initially explored portraiture and questions of identity.

Since 2021, his work has increasingly focused on religious and historical iconography, developing a body of paintings that reinterprets sacred narratives through the visual language of photography, fashion imagery and contemporary culture.

Drawing on biblical figures, saints and familiar religious compositions, Muraire places these images within a contemporary visual landscape shaped by media, fashion and popular culture. Through subtle shifts in posture, gesture and representation, his paintings create a dialogue between historical iconography and contemporary ways of seeing.

Rather than revisiting religious imagery as a matter of faith, his work explores the enduring power of these figures and narratives, and the ways they continue to function as spaces of projection, identification and interpretation. By bringing together elements of Renaissance painting, fashion photography and contemporary visual culture, he examines how ancient stories remain connected to present-day questions of identity, desire, doubt and human experience.

Renaud Muraire is based in Paris.