Nothing predisposed Jean-Pierre Tachier-Fortin to become a painter. He first had to become rebellious.
After classical studies in Toulouse, his native city, and a university degree in Economics, he moved to Paris where he attended various workshops and devoted himself entirely to painting. In 1979, art dealer William Gelender noticed his work and presented it for the first time at the FIAC in Paris.
In 1987, the New Yorker Jan-Eric Lowenadler became interested in his works, presented them to the FIAC and distributed them until his death in 2010.
In 1988, Jean-Pierre Tachier-Fortin was one of the artists in the Galerie Leif Stahle, where he exhibited in 1990, 1991, 1992 till the gallery owner died and the gallery closed. He also exhibited at the FIAC, the Frankfurt and Basel art fair.
Since 1995, he was part of a serie of “outside the walls” exhibitions along with the artists Olivier Debré, Paul Kallos, Georges Romathier, at the Cour Delépine in Paris.
He also had a personal exhibition at the House of Latin America in Paris.
As of 2007, there are “surroundings” work of “primitive sewing” that extend the canvases, a kind of raw frames of bumps not systematic but realized in the emergency. Since 2011, he experimented with new techniques to question the act of painting.