Jean Claude Wouters Author

Jean Claude Wouters (b. 1958 Brussels), lived and worked in Paris, Tokyo, Italy, Dubai, Los Angeles and Brussels. Studied drawing from an early age, then ballet, filmmaking and various performing arts. In his career as an artist he has shown an intense sensitivity to the nature of both the body and the spirit. After studying and dancing with Maurice Béjart and Lindsay Kemp, Wouters started working as a performing artist and as an independent filmmaker, his work selected by the London Film-Makers’ Co-op, the Tsukuba University Japan, the Director Fortnight section (Quinzaine des réalisateurs) at the Cannes Film Festival in 1981 (Brian Eno – Music for Films), and receiving several awards in international film festivals, New York, San Francisco, Paris, Prague, Tehran, Montréal. In the '90s he worked as a filmmaker and fashion photographer, his speciality being Beauty and Woman expressed in a simple and natural manner (Lancôme, Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Givenchy, Louis Féraud, Tag Heuer, etc.). Wouters also collaborated with fashion designer Marc Jacobs for ARTREAGEOUS at Bloomingdale’s (New York, 2007). In 2011, he performed CRINOLINE MAN at the LACMA museum (Los Angeles), and SHADOW WALKER at the MOCA Museum (Tucson, AZ). In 2012 he was awarded the POLLOCK-KRASNER Foundation Grant in NYC.