ABOUT
Of Franco-British origin, Caroline Delétoille explores memory and questions what eludes perception. After studying mathematics and management, she spent eight years working in strategy consulting. At the same time, she developed an artistic practice and decided to dedicate herself to it fully in 2021 following personal events that led her to question, in particular, the notion of loss.
Her work has since been exhibited in France, the Czech Republic, and Spain. In 2024, she was selected for the art-science residency of the French Consulate in Vancouver, in collaboration with the University of British Columbia (UBC). In 2025, she presented a project developed in collaboration with quantum research laboratories and the Nicéphore Niépce Museum of Photography at several institutions, including CENTQUATRE-Paris, the Collège de France, Maison Poincaré, and UNESCO. She enjoys working in dialogue with the scientific field. Her recent work explores quantum physics, forest transformation, colonial memory.
Her works are part of public and private collections in France and abroad, including the UK, the United States, Canada, Spain, and Sweden.
“In 2019, I received a phone call informing me that the family home had been emptied the day before and its contents thrown away. Nothing remains, yet what can no longer be seen or touched continues to exist within me. This questioning of what escapes the gaze lies at the heart of my work.
I paint from fragments: family archives, faces of relatives or strangers, photographs I rediscover, places I pass through… These images become the starting point of an investigation to be carried out, an opportunity to reflect on what we keep, invent, or believe we know.
Certain motifs return: childhood, gardens, portraits, the familiar. But I do not want a painting that reproduces. I seek to distort, reframe, saturate. For lines to lose their straightness, to bend and come alive. I like running the image through a press, or layering strata of medium in thin coats until they become shifting. As rational points of reference are disturbed, imagination is activated.”
Caroline Delétoille
EXHIBITIONS
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
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
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
MEDIATION & CONFERENCES
2025
International symposium « Diffractions Quantiques : arts et sciences en dialogue » 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
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
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Studio private visits upon appointment