“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

2025-26 (October 8th – Janyary 9th) : The quantum studio, Collège de France, Paris, France

2025 (April 10th – July 26th) : Quantum Sensation, museum Maison Poincaré, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France

2023 : In & Out, salon of honor, XXth district cityhall, 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)

2025-26 (October 11th – Janyary 11th) : Biennale Némo, CENTQUATRE, curation Gilles Alvarez, Paris, France

2025 (October 11th – Janyary 11th) : Lesni Kuze, with Pauline de Cabarrus, Telc Firehouse Gallery, Tchéquie

2025 : Quantum Year Opening Ceremony, UNESCO, Paris, FR

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 : Groupshow, Circle of l’Ecole Polytechnique, salon du Vieux Colombier, Mairie du VIème, Paris, France

RESIDENCIES

2025 (July): “Firehouse gallery” Creative residency at the Regional Gallery of Telc, Czech Republic, with Pauline de Cabarrus, residency led by Jan Vicar.

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

PRIZES & COLLECTIONS

2025: Acquisition by the Kastler Brossel Laboratory (Sorbonne University)

2025: Shortlisted for the David Weill Prize for Contemporary Drawing from the Académie des Beaux-Arts (Institut de France)

PUBLISHING

2025 : « Sensation Quantique », Naima Editions, Presses du Réel. Direction Céline Boisserie-Lacroix. Avec : Aurore Young, Céline Boisserie-Lacroix, Caroline Delétoille, Shelly Rosenblum, Chadi Abo, Jules Grucker, Max-Louis Raugel, Dominique Mouhanna, Elie During

2023 : « Macte Animo ! », with the Kontemporama association, exhibition book

PRESS

2025 : « Finally undersant quantum physics», Madame Le Figaro, FR (09/19/2025)

2025 : « Quantum sensation, how to make science understood? », Les Inrocks, FR (07/17/2025)

2025 : « Quantum physics and art meet at Maison Poincaré», Beaux-Arts Magazine, FR (05/09/2025)

2025 :« Five exhibitions not to be missed », Le Monde, FR (14/06/2025)

2025 : « “Quantum sensation” : an exhibition to feel quantum science », Science & Avenir, FR (04/11/2025)

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 & CONFERENCES

2025: Seminar on Quantum Diffractions: Art and Science (curators, artists, physicists), Collège de France, Paris, FR

2025: Bram Days, Conference at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, FR

2022-2025: Workshops for schoolchildren (kindergarten to high school) and adult and family groups, France, Canada, and the Czech Republic

2013-2021: Workshop facilitation (ideation, design thinking) for groups (4 to >50 participants), France and abroad

 

ART TRAINING

2022 : Monotype and printing techniques, Vicky Fischer studio, Site Glacière, Ateliers des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris

2019-2022 : Screenprinting, Olympiades, Paris, France

2013-2021 : Painting, Ateliers des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris (Montparnasse / Baudelaire), Paris, France

2019 : Academic painting and drawing, Barcelona Academy of Art, Barcelona, Spain

2003-2006 : Painting and drawing, Académie du Viaduc des Arts