Dominique Fury b. 1956

Born in 1956 in Paris, Dominique Fury is a French artist and a prominent figure in the underground scene of the late 1970s. After studying at the Légion d’honneur and Sciences Po Paris, she became involved in the Parisian punk and art scenes, rubbing shoulders with figures such as Gualtieri, William Burroughs, Thunders, the Factory, and Andy Warhol. She then developed an artistic practice blending punk and pop. In 1979, she joined the Bazooka collective, where she trained in screen printing and participated in a discussion on the image and its circulation.

Beginning in the late 1970s, silkscreen printing became one of Dominique Fury’s primary mediums. Using images drawn from the press, advertising, and popular culture, she developed a body of work based on collage, appropriation, and recomposition. Her work thus maintains a relationship with consumer society and media representations—particularly those associated with femininity—that is both critical and playful. In the early 1980s, she met Agnès b., with whom she collaborated regularly, and also began to take an interest in street art.

Associated with Pop Art and Neo-Pop, Dominique Fury creates a rich and varied world using a wide range of materials, from synthetic fur to Plexiglas, including fabrics and industrial canvases. Images, materials, and patterns overlap, blurring the boundaries between painting, photography, and the object. Female figures, animals, and vivid colors form the language of a whimsical and subversive world. In her works, accumulation becomes a means of questioning our relationship to images and representations, while affirming their power to transform.