He received his BFA degree from the
École cantonale d'art de Lausanne in 2004 and his MFA from the
Glasgow School of Art, in
Glasgow, Scotland in 2009. Party's work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, the
Magritte Museum in Brussels, the
Dallas Museum of Art, and the
Hirshhorn Museum. For his second exhibition at the Hirshorn Museum which ran from September 18, 2021, until the spring of 2022 he created his largest work to date
Draw the Curtain, it "wraps 360 degrees around the temporary scaffolding that encases the Museum building and spans a circumference of 829 feet". It is an "original pastel painting digitally collaged and printed onto scrim". Party' primary medium of choice is
pastel. In February 2020 he had his first solo exhibition, "Scottsboro" with Hauser & Wirth at their
Los Angeles, California venue. In 2017 he had his first solo exhibition, "Three Season" with Xavier Hufkens. Among the artists Party cites as having influenced his painting are
Rosalba Carriera,
Félix Vallotton,
Milton Avery,
Pablo Picasso, and
Giorgio Morandi. Party's landscapes often draw from or even directly cite styles and motifs from a diverse set of contemporary painters and painters of previous generations, including
Salvo, a similarity picked up at a number of exhibitions. ==Bibliography==