Born in 1983
Lives and works in Tours
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
2025
- Saison d'art 2025, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France, curatored by Chantal Colleu-Dumond
FREE JAZZ, Henri Matisse et …, Drawing Lab, Paris, France
L'intimité des temps, Contemporary Art Center Les Tanneries, Amilly, France, curatored by Éric Degoutte
2024
- Paysages acrobatiques, 8+4 Gallery, Paris, France
2023
- Italian Ice cream in the wind, The Royal Ice Rink, Valérie Bach Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2021
- Lazy wall and the blue ropes, CIAM La Fabrique, Jean Jaurès University, Toulouse, France
2019
- Primo Piano And The Leftovers, La Vitrine / Île-de-France Regional Funds for Contemporary Art (FRAC), France
2018
- Ultimo and the clusters, Camille Lambert Contemporary Art Space, Juvisy-sur-Orge, France
2017
- Falaises modernes, 8+4 Gallery, Paris, France
2016
- Polarités, duo show with Dominique Blais, Contemporary Art Center of Normandie Le Shed, Rouen, France
2015
- Untitled Art Fair Miami, De Roussan Gallery, United States
Let’s build a home, De Roussan Gallery, Paris, France
2013
- Kit Peak & Eteignez s’il vous plaît... , Centre Pompidou Metz, France
2012
- And no birds sing, EAC La Rochelle, France, in collaboration with Nils Guadagnin
2008
- Les Rolling Stones ne viendront pas..., Domaine de Chambord, Chambord, France, duo show in collaboration with Nils Guadagnin
2007
- Creation and opening of the artist run space White Office, in a duo with Nils Guadagnin
Group exhibitions
2026
- Désir d'antique, 8+4 Gallery, Paris, France
2025
- Free Jazz, Drawing Lab, Paris, France, curated by Claudine Grammont
Faire monde, Véron Museum, Savigny-en-Véron, France
2024
- Drawing Now, 8+4 Gallery, Paris, France
Faire monde, Véron Museum, Savigny-en-Véron, France
2023
- Futurs antérieurs, Jean Cocteau Cultural Center, Les Lilas, France, curatored by Anna Milone and Luc Avanzini
1/72 Land Art, CIAM La Fabrique, Jean Jaurès University, Toulouse, France
Paréidolie, 8+4 Gallery, Marseille, France
La Ligne Trouble, François Mitterrand Cultural Space, Périgueux, France, curatored by Élise Girardot
Drawing Now, 8+4 Gallery, Paris, France
Art Paris, 8+4 Gallery, Paris, France
2022
- Météorologiques, André Malraux Museum of Modern Art (MuMa), Le Havre, France, curatored by Annette Haudiquet
IFPDA Print fair, 8+4 Gallery, New York, United States
Paréidolie, 8+4 Gallery, Marseille, France
Art Paris, 8+4 Gallery, Paris, France
Drawing Now, 8+4 Gallery, Paris, France
2021
- FIAC, 8+4 Gallery, Paris, France
Paréidolie, 8+4 Gallery, Marseille, France
Drawing Now, 8+4 Gallery, Paris, France
Design parade 2021, Villa Noailles, invited by E. Jayet and V. Fleury
2020
- Drawing Now (since 2014), 8+4 Gallery, Paris, France
Étendue, corps, espace. Olivier Debré et les artistes architectes, Olivier Debré Center for Contemporary Creation (CCC OD), Tours, France, curatored by Isabelle Reiher and Marine Rochard
Traces / We build ruins, Chinon, France, curatored by Cindy Daguenet
Same Roof, Galerie Run Gallery, curatored by L. Van Melle
Art Paris, 8+4 Gallery, Paris, France
Drawing Now, 8+4 Gallery, Paris, France
L’art dans les chapelles, Pontivy, France, curatored by Éric Suchère
2019
- Some of Us, an overview on the French Art scene, curatored by J. Cotinet-Alphaize and Marianne Derrien
NordArt, Büdelsdorf, Germany
FIAC, 8+4 Gallery, Paris, France
Drawing Now, 8+4 Gallery, Paris, France
Brussels art week, 8+4 Gallery, Paris, France
186 feuilles, suites..., MAC VAL, Mode d’Emploi association, Jean-Collet Gallery, Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, France
2018
- Eurotopie, 16ᵗʰ Venice International Architecture Biennale, Belgian Pavilion, Venice, Italy, curatored by Traumnovelle & Roxane Le Grelle
Eurotopie in Brussels, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium, curatored by Traumnovelle & Roxane Le Grelle
Recto / Verso II, Louis Vuitton Fondation, Paris, France
Héritages, Contemporary Art Center of ar[T]senal, Dreux, France, curatored by Lucile Hitier
FIAC, 8+4 Gallery, Paris, France
Drawing Now, 8+4 Gallery, Paris, France
2017
- MAD, 8+4 Gallery, Paris, France
Art Brussels, 8+4 Gallery, Paris, France
Lignes de crêtes, Contemporary visions of mountain, Saint-Gervais, France, curatored by Lucie Maistre
FIAC, 8+4 Gallery, Paris, France
Drawing Now, 8+4 Gallery, Paris, France
2016
- White Crypt, London, United Kingdom, curatored by Anaïs Lerendu
Art Brussels, De Roussan Gallery, Paris, France
FIAC, De Roussan Gallery, Paris, France
Drawing Now, De Roussan Gallery, Paris, France
Là-haut, La Graineterie, Houilles, France, curatored by Aurélie Barnier
Variations sur horizon, De Roussan Gallery, Paris, France
2015
- Heaven Is A Place Where Nothing Ever Happens, PI Artworks Gallery, London, United Kingdom, curatored by Ashlee Conery
EAB Fair New York, 8+4 Gallery, Paris, France
FIAC Officielle Art Fair, 8+4 Gallery, Paris, France
Volta 11 Basel, De Roussan Gallery, Swiss
Toile de jouy, Fine Arts Museum, Chambéry, France,
Drawing Now, De Roussan Gallery, Paris, France
2014
- Chasseur harmonieux, j’emprisonne mes rêves, De Roussan Gallery, Paris, France
Hanging event, Art Factum Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
Still Water, 22,48m² Gallery, Paris, France
Art Brussels, 8+4 Gallery, Paris, France
Drawing Now, De Roussan Gallery, Paris, France
2013
- Faire le mur, curatored by Hybrid Gallery & Manon Boulard, Bidart
Exuvie, School of Fine Arts, Tours, France
L’échappée belle, Grand Palais, Paris, France, curatored by A. Lepoutre & P. Castro
EAB Fair New York, 8+4 Gallery, Paris, France
2012
- WE LOVE YOU, Less is more projects Gallery, Paris, France
57ᵗʰ Salon de Montrouge, Paris, France, curatored by Stéphane Corréard
2011
- C’est ainsi que finit le monde pas sur un bang, sur un murmure... , Le Transpalette, Bourges, France, curatored by Damien Sausset & Jérôme Cotinet-Alphaize
2010
- Ligne à ligne, National Gallery of Jakarta, Indonesia, curatored by M. Nuridsany
Rideaux sur Loire, Candes Saint-Martin, France, curatored by Cindy Daguenet
Residencies
2017
- Davidoff Art Initiative, Dominican Republic
2016
- Contemporary Art Center of Normandie Le Shed, Rouen, France
2012
- Oeuvre en résidence, Toile de Jouy n°2, Beffroi de Montrouge suite au 57ᵉ salon de Montrouge
EAC La Rochelle, France
2011
- Sans titre, Resident program, Le Transpalette Contemporary Art Center, Bourges, France
2008
- Mode d’Emploi residency, Tours, France
Grants, Awards
2023
- Bourse d’aide à la recherche ADAGP
2022
- Nommée Prix Drawing Now 2022
Prix Art Collector Entreprise
2020
- Aide à l’installation d’un atelier, DRAC Centre Val de Loire
2015
- Aide à la première exposition, CNAP Exposition Let’s build a home, Galerie De Roussan
2011
- Bourse d’aide à la création, DRAC Région Centre
Commissions, Collections
2021
- New Gypsothèque, Paris Contemporary Art Fund Collection, France
2020
- The other walls #1 & #2, Collection National Library of France
2019
- Sternscape, Artothèque of Angers, France
2018
- L’essor des cimes, Artothèque of Lyon, France
2017
- Landscape(s), Artothèque of Caen, France
High napper, study liner, Collection La Française
2016
- Nos canopées, Collection La Française
Conform Step, canonic void, Collection Société Générale
Le sursis des pléiades, New York Public Library
Studiolo, Artothèque of Pessac, France
2015
- Cold Hillside, New York Public Library
2014
- Triple Matin, Museum of Drawing and Original Prints, Gravelines, France
Cold Hillside, Artothèque of Lot, France
Landscape(s), Artothèque of Annecy, France
Landscape(s), Museum of Fine Arts, Chambéry, France
2013
- Landscape(s), Louis Vuitton Japan
2012
- Auction of the 57ᵗʰ Salon de Montrouge
2009
- Maison Effervescente, Artothèque of Poitiers, France
Bibliography
Exhibition catalogs
2024
- SOME OF US. Anthologie des artistes contemporaine·x·s, Jérôme Cotinet-Alphaize and Marianne Derrien, assisted by Adrien Elie
2023
- Futurs Antérieurs, Jean Cocteau Cultural Center, Les Lilas, France
Nec Mergitur, Contemporary Art Le Garage, Amboise, France
Catalogue of Bernard Chauveau editions (since 2011)
2022
- Art in Chapels, 30ᵗʰ Edition
2021
- Contemporary Art Fund Collection Paris, France
2020
- Art in Chapels, 29ᵗʰ Edition
2018
- Ultimo and the clusters, Léa Chavel Lévy, Livret / catalogue
Catalogue Recto / Verso II, atalogue of the charity sale at the Louis Vuitton Foundation, benefiting Secours Populaire
Eurotopie, Travel diary in Eurotopia, series of fifteen collages, Venice Architecture Biennale
2015
- 50/52 artistes émergents, 11-13 Publisher, artistic director Laurence Bruguière
La matrice et le lieu, synopsis possibles d’une topologie fragmentaire, V. Mazière
Drawing Now, exhibition catalogue
2013
- L’échappée belle, La société anonyme Publisher
Dixparition, My Monkey Publisher
2012
- Catalogue of the 57ᵗʰ Salon de Montrouge, text by A. Pigeat, Particules Publisher
2011
- Récit entre amis (coffret / livre objet) édité par Big machine inc.
2009
- Ligne à ligne, commissariat M. Nuridsany, National gallery of Jakarta, Indonésie
2008
- Panorama de la jeune création, Biennale de Bourges
Presse (sélection)
2023
- La ligne trouble, Zero Deux, by Andréanne Béguin
Rolling Stones Magazine "City of blows" (cover), by Tim Blake Nelson
Bird view and the colums en couverture, The Architectural Review
2022
- Météorologiques, Europe 1, Les indispensables
Marseille : Pareidolie, Connaissance des Arts, by G. Boyer
Le salon Drawing Now est de retour au Carreau du Temple, Le Monde, by P. Dagen
Drawing Now revient au Carreau du Temple, Le Journal Des Arts, by A.C. Sanchez
Les nommé.e.s au prix Drawing Now 2022, Art Visions, interview by Anne Kerner
Le dessin comme décloisonnement des codes classiques de la toile et du châssis, FOMO VOX, Interview, Art Collector
Claire Trotignon nous présente ses dessins en suspension, Art in the city,
Ce soleil on l’a vu... on the cover of "City of blows", Tim Blake Nelson, Unnamed Press
2021
- L’architecture comme pierre angulaire, Le Journal Des Arts, by H-F. Debailleux
Chambord rend hommage à Charlie Watts, Le Figaro, by C. Bommelaer
Dialogue intergénérationnel entre art et architecture, L’oeil & Le Journal Des Arts, by A-C. Michaut
Claire Trotignon lauréate du Prix Art Collector Ents, Art in the city, by A. Com.
Olivier Debré et les artistes architectes, Art Press, by E. Couturier
2020
- Claire Trotignon lauréate du Prix Art Collector, Art newspaper, Ents - A. Com.
Art, Les expositions parisiennes à ne pas manquer, Vanity Fair, by M. Vanwetswinkel
De l’art à l’architecture, Connaissance des Arts, by G. Morel
Une visite chez Olivier Debré, Art Newspaper, by A. Pigeat
2019
- Cartographie sensible, Process Magazine, by H. Virion
Drawing now sous le signe de l’éclectisme, Le Monde, by P. Dagen
Belles feuilles pour vrais collectionneurs, Diptyk n°48, by A. Colliex
2018
- Ultimo and the clusters, Slash Paris Magazine, by Guillaume Benoit
Ultimo and the Clusters, Point Contemporain
Eurotopie à Bruxelles, L’architecture aujourd’hui
2017
- Blouin Artinfo, FIAC 2017 Top 5 Edition Galleries
Radio Classique, Au plus près des jeunes, Collection Société Générale, Interview
2016
- Drawing Now, Le Journal Des Arts, by F. Bonnet & E. Thery
KOOZA/RCH, Interrogating the codes that define our reality
Claire Trotignon, une « Cosa mentale » au millimètre, Point Contemporain, by L. Gossart
Le dessin, un art très contemporain à l’honneur ce week-end, L’OBS cult, by C. Fleury
Le Monde, by Emmanuelle Lequeux & P. Dagen
2015
- Portfolio #81, Mouvement, by A. Berland
13 nov : Images d’un monde flottant, Le Quotidien de l’art n° 942, by Emmanuelle Lequeux
Vulture Magazine n°12, by C. Loh
Le Journal des Arts n°433
5 raisons d’aller au salon « Drawing Now », L’OBS culture, by C. Fleury
Claire Trotignon : construire des espaces composites, Kritiks, by Pauline Lisowski
Let’s Build a Home, Follow Art With Me, by B. Cotte
3 mars : Claire Trotignon : La partie et le tout, Art Absolument, by T. Laurent
Artaïssime n°9, by M. De La Fresnaye
2014
- La Vignette, France Culture, interview by Aude Lavigne
À première vue, France Culture, interview by Aude Lavigne
2013
- Slicker magazine, by A. De Bourbon Parme
M le magazine du monde, by L. Vignoli
Arts magazine, by A. Romanecce
Où est le cool : Spécial Baléapop, Les Inrock
2012
- Zero deux, by P. Joly
Art Press, by Anaël Pigeat
Le Monde, by Emmanuelle Lequeux
2011
- C’est ainsi que finit le monde pas sur un bang, sur un murmure, Art press, by Anaël Pigeat
Découvrir trois jeunes artistes à l’antre-peaux de Bourges, Le Monde, by Emmanuelle Lequeux
2009
- White Office, Nils Guadagnin / Claire Trotignon, Laura Review n°8
2008
- Les Rolling Stones ne viendront pas..., Le Parisien (cover and text), Le Figaro, Le nouvel Obs and Les Échos
Les châteaux revisités pour les journées du patrimoine, AFP, Le Monde
Les Rolling Stones ne viendront pas..., Europe 1, by Laurent Ruquier
Les Rolling Stones ne viendront pas..., RTL, by C. Panvert
Les Rolling Stones ne viendront pas..., JT : Canal +, TF1 and France 2
White office, Technikart, by Théo Pillaud
Les périades bivouac, Paralelle 03, by Mathieu Richard
White Office à l’Octroi, Paralelle 02, by Diego Movilla
20 000 avions en papier ont atteri dans l’Octroi, La Nouvelle République, by Pierre Imbert
20 000 avions de papier fabriqués à l’Octroi, La Nouvelle République, by M.BA
« Espaces humains et interactions culturelles » team search, Limoges International Symposium
Limoge University, Christine de Buzon
Editions, Multiples
Prints
2023
- The Cliff, screen-printed edition, 12 copies, 8+4 Gallery
2022
- CHANEL, EID, création d’une composition originale
2021
- The other walls, edition of 5 screen prints, 20 copies, B. Chauveau Publisher
CHANEL, Chenise New Year, creation of an original composition
2016
- Les particules mécaniques, 4-color screen printing, 8 copies, B. Chauveau Publisher
Polarités +, edition produced for the Contemporary Art Center of Normandie Le Shed, on the occasion of the Polarités duo-show
2015
- Le sursis des pléiades, 5 cyanotypes, 8 copies, B. Chauveau Publisher
2014
- Cold Hillside, 3 screen prints, 8 copies, B. Chauveau Publisher
2013
- Triple matin, panoramic screen print, 12 copies, B. Chauveau & Le Néant Publishers
Les négociations tropicales, 3 screen prints, 12 copies
2012
- Melancolic Dew, 4'24" soundtrack, 50 numbered vinyl records, published by the CRAC association
Landscape(s), 9 screen prints, 8 copies, B. Chauveau & Le Néant Publishers
Teaching
Since 2021
- Artist and teacher, School of Art and Design (ESAD TALM), Le Mans, France
Workshops
2023
- New Gypsothèque, Workshop and presentation, Captain Lagache Elementary School, Paris 17ᵉ, invited by Contemporary Art Fund Collection Paris
2013
- Workshop for young audiences, Kit Peak & Éteignez s’il vous plaît, Centre Pompidou Metz, France
Conférences
2023
- Discussion on Situated Practices, invited by Réseau Documents d’artistes, moderation and presentation : Cindy Daguenet, Julie Crenn, Iragaëlle Monier, Bérénice Saliou, Tatiana Patchama and Claire Trotignon, Olivier Debré Center for Contemporary Creation (CCC OD), Tours, France
Meeting with the public, Futurs Antérieurs exhibition, Jean Cocteau Cultural Center, Les Lilas, France, curatored by Anna Milone
2018
- Meeting with the public, Ultimo and the clusters exhibition, Camille Lambert Contemporary Art Space, Juvisy-sur-Orge, France
2017
- Conference, Davidoff Art Initiative, Altos De Chavon, Dominican Republic
2016
- Conference « Écoute l’artiste », in collaboration with Dominique Blais, Museum of Fine Arts, Rouen, France
Education, Training
2008
- National Higher Diploma in Visual Arts (DNSEP / master degree), Special mention for the quality of work, School of Fine Arts Tours (ESBA), France
2003
- European School of Art of Bretagne (EESAB), Quimper, France
2002
- Art history, Poitiers University, Poitiers, France