Michal Korman (Slovakia, 1987) discovered his artistic vocation at an early age: at five, he was admitted to the children’s courses at the local school of fine arts by the Slovak academic painter Jozef Jelenák, rooted in the tradition of Expressionism. Over three years, Jelenák laid the foundations of his artistic training.
In 2005, Korman established a distinctive style: oil painting with a graphic quality, marked by a signature conceived as a logotype. The following year, he completed a four-year program at the school of fine arts in only two years and graduated with a diploma. Since then, he has pursued a personal language that blends traditional figurative oil painting with graphic design, which led to his first solo exhibition outside Slovakia, in Brussels in 2009.
That same year in Belgium, he was selected among the 100 Young European Creative People of Exceptional Talent by the Committee of the Regions Forum, as part of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation, organized by Europe’s Creative Cities and Regions.
From 2016 onwards, Korman has focused on what have since become his signature themes: plants and flowers.
Over the years, Korman has spent considerable time in Japan, where he studied woodblock prints. His work has been profoundly shaped by Japanese aesthetics, particularly the Rimpa school and Ukiyo-e. In 2020, he held a solo exhibition at the Setouchi City Museum of Art in Okayama, Japan.
In 2023, he began a collaboration with Pearl Lam Gallery, which represents him internationally.
In 2024, he presented Contrepoint, a cross-dialogue exhibition between his work and that of Yves Brayer, at the Musée Yves Brayer in Les Baux-de-Provence, France.
In April 2025, he presented his first retrospective at the Pearl Lam Gallery in Shanghai, bringing together more than fifty works.
Michal Korman lives and works between Paris and Burgundy.
His works have entered the collections of the Musée Carnavalet (Paris, France), the Cinémathèque Française (Paris, France), the Samsung Art Store (Seoul, Korea), the Museum of Diocesano San Prisco (Nocera Inferiore, Italy).
Works in private collections: Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Portugal, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malasia, the Netherlands, Russian Federation, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States of America…
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