Jean-Pierre Sergent (born in Morteau, France in 1958) is a French-American-Swiss artist. He developed his repertoire of artistic forms in the United States (New York, 1993-2003). He lives and works nowadays in Besançon, France. His work is exhibited internationally since the 1990s: in the United States, Europe, Iran and China. From 2019 to 2023, a monumental fresco of 72 paintings on Plexiglas, of 80 m2, "The Four Pillars of Heaven", have been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology of Besançon.

Known for his large murales Plexiglas paintings installations and works on paper that depict largely forgotten techniques of transcendence, and ritual, sexual and shamanic trances. Sergent’s iconography is inspired by his travels, cave art, tribal cultures, manga, Kundalini, mysticism, life cycles and cosmic momentum.

His work is understood as a vibrant tribute to the colossal vital energy deeply buried and repressed in our post-cultural societies. The artist has likened his work to a tool, like a can opener or a hammer that forces the viewer to take an initiatory trip that merges him with a world of pleasures and colors. But this sacred space carries all the necessary conflicts, tensions “between life and death, beauty and ugliness, stillness and energies, flowers and harsh obscenities, straight geometrical patterns and the arousal of eccentricity of life sexuality into the universal demiurgic chaos.”