MARION CHARLET France, b. 1982

Marion Charlet is a French artist whose painting practice explores constructed landscapes where architecture, memory, and organic forms intersect—lush, often uninhabited environments in which vegetation proliferates and human presence lingers only through traces. Her work develops a tension between ordered, perspectival spaces and exuberant, unstable natural worlds, creating immersive, timeless settings shaped by color and sensorial intensity. She lives and works in Paris.

 She has received several awards, including the Prix de la Fondation Colas (2016) and the Art [ ] Collector Prize (2018), and was nominated for the Drawing Now Prize (2022).

Selected solo exhibitions: Suquet des Artistes, Cannes (forthcoming, 2026); Drawing Hotel, Paris (2022, permanent installation); Chapelle de la Visitation, Thonon-les-Bains (2020); Patio Opéra, Paris (2018); Galerie d’Art de Créteil (2014).

Selected group exhibitions: Pavillon français, Exposition universelle d’Osaka (2025); Centre d’art contemporain La Malmaison, Cannes (2025); MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain, Montpellier (2023); Abbaye Saint-André – Centre d’art contemporain, Meymac (2021); Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole (2017); ADAM Museum, Brussels (2016); Musée départemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart (2015); CAC Meymac (2015).

Selected institutional collections: Fondation Colas, Paris; Fondation Velux, France; Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères, Paris; Musée du Chat, Brussels; FRAC-Artothèque Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Limoges.