ABOUT
Born in 1988, of French and British origin, Caroline Delétoille explores memories, dreams, and the traces left by the passing of time. With an initial background in mathematics and management, having pursued her studies in Paris, Lille and later completing a MBA in Japan, she worked eights years in industrial strategy. meanwhile, she developed painting in workshops and decided to devote herself to it in 2021.
Her work has been shown in France and Spain, including at Gallery Opening in Barcelona. She was awarded a prize at the Salon de Pierrefitte in 2022. In 2023, her work was the subject of a solo show at the IESA gallery. In 2024, she was selected for the French Consulate’s residency in Vancouver (Canada), in collaboration with the Morris & Helen Belkin Gallery and the Quantum Matter Institute at the University of British Columbia. In 2025, her work is presented at UNESCO, the Maison Poincaré museum, Collège de France and CENTQUATRE following a research-creation residency at the Collège de France. Her paintings are part of public and private collections in France and abroad, including the UK, the United States, Canada, Spain, and Sweden.
“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 or my immediate surrounding (landscape, friends, news) 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. While rational referential gets disrupted, the imagination is activated.”
Caroline Delétoille
EXHIBITIONS
2026
Festival Paris des Sciences, XVIIIth district cityhall, Paris, France
2025
Quantum studio, Collège de France, curation Céline Boisserie-Lacroix, Paris, France
Nemo media arts Biennale, curation Gilles Alvarez, CENTQUATRE, Paris, France
Lesni Kuze (“la peau de la forêt”), with Pauline de Cabarrus,Telc Firehouse Gallery, Czech Republik
Quantum Sensation, museum Maison Poincaré, Institut Henri Poincaré, curation Céline Boisserie-Lacroix, Paris, France
Quantum Year Opening Ceremony, UNESCO, Paris, France
2024
Open II, galería Espai Cenit, Barcelone, ES
2023
In & Out, In & Out, salon of honor, XXth district cityhall, Paris, France
Macte animo ! , IESA Gallery, curated by Petre Hermann, Paris, France
Along the road, L’Adresse Stephane Macquaire Miromesnil, Paris, FR
Tallers Obert, Astillero Espacio Cultural, Barcelone, Spain
Summertime, Kiosque des Dunes, Barneville-Carteret, France
Ligne 21, OpenBach, Vincennes, FR
2022
21e Salon des Arts Plastiques de Pierrefitte, Gallery Maurice Utrillo CCC Pierrefitte, Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, France
A day at the park, La Cordée, Paris 12e, France
Groupshow, Circle of Ecole Polytechnique, VIth district cityhall, Paris, France
Poïesis, Festina Lente Gallery, Portbail, FR
Childhood, La Fabrique, Ivry-sur-Seine, France
2021
2021 : Incipit, Gallery Opening Canyelles, Barcelona, Spain
RESIDENCIES
2027 (coming soon) research workshop at Fondation des Treilles, FR
2025 (July): “Firehouse gallery” Creative residency at the Regional Gallery of Telc, Czech Republic, with Pauline de Cabarrus, residency led by Jan Vicar.
2024
Quantum Studio, French Ambassy in Canada with the University of Bristish Columbia and The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Research and Creation residency at the Kastler-Brossel Laboratory (Collège de France, ENS, CNRS, Sorbonne), Paris, FR
PRIZES & COLLECTIONS
Acquisition of 2 paintings in 2025 by the Kastler Brossel Laboratory (Sorbonne University)
Shortlisted for the 2025 Pierre David-Weill Prize for Contemporary Drawing from the Beaux-Arts Academy (Institut de France)
100 leaders of tomorrow 2013 at the Saint Gallen Symposium, Switzerland
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
« How art and philosophy bring a sense of the invisible », La Science au Labo, France Culture (13/11/2025)
« Quantum studio: at the College of France, art makes the infinitely small shine bright », Science et Avenir, FR (10/10/2025)
« Finally understanding quantum », Madame Le Figaro, FR (19/09/2025)
« Quantum Sensation or how art can make science understandable? », Les Inrocks, FR (17/07/2025)
« Five exhibitions not to be missed », Le Monde, FR (14/06/2025)
« Quantum sensation: crossing with art the invisible », Sorbonne Université, Science, Culture and Sociery, FR (10/06/2025)
« La physique quantique et l’art ont des atomes crochus à la Maison Poincaré à Paris », Beaux-Arts Magazine, FR (09/05/2025)
«How the hypothesis of multiple worlds encounter quantum? », La Science au Labo, France Culture, FR (24/04/2025)
« Quantum sensation, and immersive exhibition to feel quantum physics », Science & Avenir, FR (11/04/2025)
2024
« Interview with Caroline Delétoille : exchange at the Morris art Gallery », CBC-Radio Canada, CA (16/10/2024)
« An art-science residency at ENS-PSL», ENS-PSL newsletter, FR (11/06/2024)
2023
« Contemporary art drawn from the 60ies», curation of the week, Newsletter YourArt, FR (25/09/2023)
« Happening in La Manche, interview of Caroline Delétoille », France Bleu Cotentin, FR (29/06/2023)
« Caroline Delétoille, a painting and memory », La Manche Libre, FR (19/06/2023)
2022
« Entrer dans le rêve par la peinture », interview for the podcast L’Essence, FR (10/10/2022)
« Poïesis exhibition at the gallery Festina Lente : 25 artists exhibiting », Presse de la Manche, FR (26/08/2022)
2021
« Color y vitalidad en las pinturas de Caroline Delétoille », revue Revista de las Artes, ES (sept.)
MEDIATION & CONFERENCES
2025
International symposium « Diffractions Quantiques : arts et sciences en dialogue » Co-curator and speaker, alongside artists, curators, philosophers et scientists. With: Céline Boisserie-Lacroix, Gaël Charbau, Shelly Rosenblum, Olivier Dadoun, Caroline Delétoille (intervention), Mériam Korichi, Nadia Lichtig, Aurore Young. In collaborated with the chairs of Pr. Pierre-Michel Menger (Sociologie du travail créateur) et du Pr. Jean Dalibard (Atomes et rayonnement), Collège de France, Paris, FR
Exchanges, performance and book signing at L’Arabesque bookstore, with Naima Editions, CENTQUATRE-Paris, FR
Transdisciplinary Bram Day, talk at Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, FR
2024
« Processus of creations and laboratories », incubator CENTQUATRE-Paris, FR
« Innovation & art-science fields », DOWELL Innovation, Nice, FR
« Mirroring memories : Exploring colonization legacy through archives, memory, and artistic dialogue», Dept. of Educational Studies, UBC, CA
« Artist in residence Talk » conférence à la Belkin Gallery, Vancouver, CA
Médiations (depuis 2013)
2022-2026: 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 of public and private sectors (4 to >50 participants), France and abroad
ARTISTIC TRAINING
2026 (in process)
MFA at the Beaux-Arts of Lyon
2005-2021
Monotype, screenprinting, and engraving techniques, Ateliers des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (Glacière) and Paris-Atelier Olympiades
Painting classes, Ateliers des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris (Montparnasse / Baudelaire), Paris, France
Pompeian fresco techniques, Ecole du Décor, Bordeaux
Roman and modernist mosaics, Atelier Saint Blaise, Paris
Academic painting and drawing, Barcelona Academy of Art, Barcelona, Spain
Painting and drawing, Académie du Viaduc des Arts
Contact
T: +33 (0) 6 71 15 82 15
Mail: studio@carolinedeletoille.com
Follow me on social medias:
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Studio private visits upon appointment