ABOUT
Born in 1988, of French and British origin, Caroline Delétoille has a background in mathematics and management, having pursued her studies in Paris, Lille and later completing an MBA in Japan. Initially working in industrial strategy, she developed painting in workshops and decided to devote herself to it.
Her paintings have been presented in France and Spain. She was notably exhibited at Gallery Opening in Barcelona and then was selected to the Salon de Pierrefitte in 2022. Her work has been the subject of a solo show in 2023 at the IESA gallery in Paris. She is currently developing an exhibition around quantum physics with a residency at the Kastler Brossel laboratory (College de France, ENS, CNRS, Sorbonne) and with the Belkin Gallery and the Quantum Matter Institute at Vancouver. The artist is interested in particular in memory, the ordinary and the trace of time. She works through techniques (oil, engraving, screen printing, photography, etc.) to which she associates writing in a search for pictorial material and narration.
“My work is a constant search for memory. In 2019, I learned by a phone call that the family house had been emptied the day before with its content thrown away. From there began for me an interrogation on the souvenirs, their development and their importance through a plastic exploration of the traces of memory. Starting from photographic archives, my work takes a side step with reality towards the dream, the pictorial space becomes a playground. The colors are frank, lively, in an atmosphere saturated with flashy greens and yellows. The color arrives on the viewers, I want it to envelop them, to fall on them. While rational referential gets disrupted, the imagination is activated.
My paintings speak of a collective and individual memory from intimate and familiar scenes such as daily childhood or family archives. I like to experiment with matter through techniques (oil, screen printing, monotypes, pastels, etc.) to which I add writing in a search of the image and its narrative.”
Caroline Delétoille
SOLO SHOWS
2025 (Coming soon – April 10th – July 26th) : Quantum Sensation, museum Maison Poincaré, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France
2023 : In & Out, salon of honor, mairie du XXème, Paris, France
2023 : Macte animo !, IESA Gallery, curated by Petre Hermann, Paris, France
2023 : Summertime, Kiosque des Dunes, Barneville-Carteret, France
2022 : A day at the park, La Cordée, Paris 12e, France
2022 : Childhood, La Fabrique, Ivry-sur-Seine, France
2021 : Incipit, Gallery Opening Canyelles, Barcelona, Spain
GROUP SHOWS (selection)
2024 : Open II, Espai Cenit, Barcelona, Spain
2023 : Tallers Obert, Astillero Espacio Cultural, Barcelona, Spain
2023 : Collages, Ligne 21, OpenBach, Vincennes, France
2022 : 21e Salon des Arts Plastiques de Pierrefitte, Espace Maurice Utrillo CCC Pierrefitte, Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, France
2022 : Poïesis, Festina Lente Gallery, Portbail, France
2022 : Artplast-X, Circle of l’Ecole Polytechnique, salon du Vieux Colombier, Mairie du VIème, Paris, France
RESIDENCIES
2024 (oct-nov) : Quantum Studio, French Ambassy in Canada with the University of Bristish Columbia and The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2024 : Research and Creation residency at the Kastler-Brossel Laboratory (Collège de France, ENS, CNRS, Sorbonne), Paris, FR
PUBLISHING
2023 : « Macte Animo ! », with the Kontemporama association, exhibition book
PRESS
2024 : « An artistic residency at the ENS-PSL: between art and science », ENS-PSL newsletter, FR (11/6/2024)
2024 : « Interview with Caroline Delétoille : discussion at the Morris and Helen Belkin art gallery », CBC-Radio Canada, CA (16/10/2024)
2023 : « Contemporary art drawn from the 60ies», curation of the week, Newsletter YourArt, FR (25/09/2023)
2023 : « Happening in La Manche, interview of Caroline Delétoille », France Bleu Cotentin, FR (29/06/2023)
2023 : « Caroline Delétoille, a painting on the souvenir », La Manche Libre, FR (19/06/2023)
2022 : Interview for the Podcast L’Essence « Entrer dans le rêve par la peinture », (october)
2022 : « Poïesis exhibition at the gallery Festina Lente : 25 artists exhibiting », Presse de la Manche, France (26/08/2022)
2021 : « Color y vitalidad en las pinturas de Caroline Delétoille », Revista de las artes, Spain (sept.)
MEDIATION
2023: Art mediation with schoolchildren (nursery/primary/college classes) at CCC Pierrefitte
2014-2020: Professional facilitation, trainings, conferences and collaborative workshops with companies (10 to 100 participants)
2012: Implementation of workshops on French culture with Japanese groups (10 to 20 people), Nagoya, JP
2009-2011: Carrying out cultural workshops for adolescents detained in a Penitentiary Establishment, Quiévrechain, France
ART TRAINING
2019 : Academic painting and drawing, Barcelona Academy of Art, Barcelona, Spain
2013-2021 : Painting, Ateliers des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris (Glacière / Montparnasse / Baudelaire), Paris, France
Contact
T: +33 (0) 6 71 15 82 15
Mail: studio@carolinedeletoille.com
Follow me on social medias:
@carolinedeletoille (instagram / facebook)
Studio private visits upon appointment