Guillaume Grando aka SupaKitch started graffiti at the age of 12 and graduated in graphic design in 1997 in Montpellier where he grew up.
After living in New York from 2008 to 2012, then in Paris from 2012 to 2016, he now lives and works in Biarritz.
From a childhood spent between the city and the sea, and an adolescence punctuated by hip-hop, design, architecture and board culture, the first period of the painter's work between 2006 and 2011 was born, which Guillaume Grando called "Listen To My Picture".
A painting composed like graphic melodies where a flamboyant bestiary, made of interlacing feathers and fur, mixes with a romantic calligraphy drifting towards a moving abstraction on textured backgrounds.
From this period, several major exhibitions followed, such as "Listen To My Picture" at the Bertin-Toublanc Gallery in Paris and at Miami Art Basek in 2007. "I Was Born To Be Different" at Élégance Gallery in Taipei in 2010 and "Based On A True Story" at Muriel Guépin Gallery in New York in 2011.
Since his first walls in 1990, SupaKitch has continued to paint larger and larger ones, often accompanied by his wife Koralie, also an artist. Commissioned by institutions such as the Museum of World Cultures (Väldskulturmuseet) in Goteborg in 2010 or solo for major brands such as Converse with the Clash Wall in Paris in 2014.
His latest notable projects include a 450m2 façade for the Halles du Lez in Montpellier in 2019 and the Institut du Thermalisme building in Dax in 2010.
A multidisciplinary artist with a background in graphic design and art direction, SupaKitch has signed prestigious collaborations with Figaret, BMW / Bleu De Chauffe and IKEA alongside Virgil Abloh.
The famous Swiss watchmaker Parmigiani Fleurier chose him as a friend of the brand and made a film about his lifestyle and inspiration. As an artist and surfer committed to the fight for the preservation of the oceans, in 2019 he will design a swimming costume with his signature "water camo" motif made from recycled plastic bottles for the French brand Apnée Swimwear.
After an interlude in tattooing at an international level between 2012 and 2017 where flowers and birds cohabit in a romantic universe, Guillaume Grando is gradually breaking away from figuration in his painting to focus on what he believes to be essential: gesture, movement, light and matter - influenced by the experience of surfing and experimentation in his art.
The exhibition "On My Wave Home" in 2017 at Kolly Gallery in Zurich marks a transition in his painting with the use of resin in each of his works. A vision with a more minimalist approach but still rich and complex thanks to the different readings offered by the play of materials with light. An evolution of his work, more plastic but still as romantic. We find his organic and graphic style as well as the singularity of his line in movement.
This new period called "The Shape Of Matter" will be the subject of a film directed by Damien Vignaux and a solo exhibition organised by Julien Kolly in Paris in October 2018 during the Fiac.
His works are exhibited in Europe, Asia and the United States.