Behind the Color

Laurie CARTOON

Contemporary & Digital Artist

Laurie CARTOON develops a practice centered on memory, presence, and the transformation of images in the age of contemporary technologies. Her work explores how images construct, alter, and extend our perception of reality.

Through portraits and architectural spaces, she creates ambiguous visual environments situated between document and fiction. Her figures, resembling imagined family archives — particularly in the series Portraits de Famille – Rémanences — evoke unstable forms of memory, while her empty architectures — Architecture of Silence, Industrial Silence, Call Me Back — become spaces of mental projection, marked by absence and persistence. This exploration also extends into immersive environments such as Zones of Latency.

Originally trained in Haute Couture, she brings a strong sensitivity to material, light, and composition into a rigorous digital practice combining photography, digital painting, and artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence is used as a research and transformation tool, integrated within a controlled creative process. Each image is constructed, reworked, and refined to achieve a balance between formal precision and interpretative openness.

Her work engages with broader questions surrounding contemporary memory, image-making processes, and the tension between reality and reconstruction, in dialogue with contemporary art practices presented in institutions such as the Centre Pompidou or international platforms like the Lumen Prize.

The signature CART👀N visually integrates the gaze into the artist’s name, echoing the notions of observation, perception, and memory that run through her work.

Past Exhibitions

2025

  • Art3F (Autumn Edition), Paris — September

  • Digital Is My Art, Galerie de Causans, Paris 6 — September 🔗

  • International Art Gallery, Paris 15 — June 🔗

  • Espace Vision’Art, Paris 5 — May 🔗

  • The Group Exhibition “The Wall”, Espace Vision’Art, Paris 5 — May 🔗

  • Digital Is My Art, Galerie H. de Broutelles, Paris 7 — April 🔗

  • The New Great Master, New York, USA — April 🔗

  • Art Expo, New York, New York, USA — April

2024

Video Retrospective of the Year 2024: Watch here

  • Halle des Blancs Manteaux, Paris – December
  • Carrousel du Louvre, The Imaginary Forest, Paris – October
  • Espace Vision’Art, The 7 Deadly Sins, Paris – October
  • Salon d’Automne, Les Belles Plantes – Autumn, Champs-Élysées, Paris – January & October
  • Surrealist Photography Festival, Exquisite Corpses, Fréjus – September
  • Espace Vision’Art, Marie-Antoinette, Solo Exhibition, Paris – July
  • Affiche Museum, Peace, Vienna, Austria – June
  • Artexpo Basel, Female Yakuzas, ARTBOX.PROJECT Basel 3.0, Switzerland – June
  • Artexpo New York, Glass Square, with Mecenavie Gallery, USA – April
  • Art Capital, City Lights, Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris – February
  • Galerie E. de Causans, with the “Digital is my Art” Collective, Paris – February
  • Botticelli Exhibition, Drag Queens, Florence, Italy – January

2023

  • Espace Vision’Art, Black & White & Lost Paradise, Paris – December – link  – link
  • Red Dot Miami, with Mecenavie, USA – December – link
  • Expo Metro Times Square, New York – December  link – link
  • 44th Salon de Haute-Loire, Le Puy-en-Velay, France – July/August – link
  • Expo Metro Barcelona, Passeig de Gràcia – June – link – link
  • Artbox Project, Basel 2.0, Art Basel, Switzerland – April – link– link
  • Salon l’Art et la Matière, Saint-Pierre-lès-Nemours – March – link
  • Art Capital, Salon des Indépendants, Paris – February                Video

2022

  • Expo Metro Miami, Les Wagonettes during Art Basel Beach, USA – December  link – link
  • Expo ST Martin d’Ury – Octobre – link
  • Publications:                                   
  • Maison et Jardin Magazine – May – link
  • Art & Design – December – link 

  • Expo Metro Los Angeles, Point de Vue, USA – June – Los Angeles – Expo Metro

2021 and Before

  • Expo Metro Manhattan, Cache-cache, New York – December 2021
  • Expo Metro Berlin, Jachère de Coquelicots & 10 Ptits Gars du Camouflage, Zoologischer Garten & Mehringdamm, Berlin, Germany – 2020                                                                                              Video
  • Expo Metro Paris, WAX, Opéra-Chaussée d’Antin, Paris – 2020     Video
  • Publications:                                                                                                                 Laurie CART👀N
    >Laurie CARTOON plays with color, Éclaireur du Gâtinais     – 2020

  • Solo Exhibition, Galerie ARTES, rue Sauton, Paris – 2018