Philippe Fretz was born in 1969 and received his degree from Geneva’s Ecole supérieure d’arts visual (graduate school for visual arts), where he worked in Claude Sandoz’s workshop and received the Prix Stravinsky in 1992. He is a three times recipient of the Kiefer-Hablitzel grant, awarded between 1996 and 1999 while he was living and working in Marseille. He spent two years in the United States painting and teaching at the Waring School in Boston. He received the Alice Bailly grant in 2002 and was awarded a workshop at the Grütli Artist’s Center by the City of Geneva. Since 2000 he has worked with the publisher art&fiction and was president of the Fédération des artistes de Kugler (Kugler artists federation) between 2009 and 2012. In 2014, 2017 and 2020 he received a grant to support the production of the Aargauer Kuratorium. In 2020 he was finalist of the Swiss Art Competition. This is the artist’s first collaboration with GOWEN.