Behind the Colors

Laurie CARTđź‘€N

 

Contemporary & Digital Artist | Explorer of colour, memory and emotion

Laurie CARTđź‘€N develops a singular artistic practice where colour, the human face and light become sensitive territories of exploration. A former fashion designer trained in Haute Couture, she has transferred her love for detail and texture into the digital realm, blending photography, digital painting and artificial intelligence into a visual language that is deeply personal.

Her universe is figurative, vibrant and emotional. Through luminous and contemporary aesthetics, she creates portraits that question memory, identity and presence — images that float between reconstructed reality and poetic vision.

A pioneer in the creative use of generative AI, she transforms her own photographs and sketches to invent hybrid figures suspended between intimacy and imagination. Far from relying on automation, her process is built upon continuous back-and-forth work with the machine, shaping each image until a visual and emotional harmony emerges.

Exhibitions & Institutional Presence

Her work has been shown in France and internationally:
Paris (Salon d’Automne, Art Capital, Champs-Élysées), New York (Times Square), Miami (Art Basel), Berlin, Barcelona…
She also exhibits permanently at the Espace Vision’Art Gallery in Paris.

Artistic Approach

Through each portrait, Laurie CART👀N seeks to express an inner vibration — a spark, a silence, a memory. Her work becomes a joyful and sensitive field of experimentation, where digital art resonates with major contemporary themes such as identity, memory and transformation.

Motto

“Create with joy, colour and freedom.”

Welcome to a world where every image is a celebration of colour, light and emotion.

Past Exhibitions

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-ÉlysĂ©es, Paris – January & October
  • Surrealist Photography Festival, Exquisite Corpses, FrĂ©jus – 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 ÉphĂ©mère, 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  linklink
  • 44th Salon de Haute-Loire, Le Puy-en-Velay, France – July/August – link
  • Expo Metro Barcelona, Passeig de GrĂ cia – June – link link
  • Artbox Project, Basel 2.0, Art Basel, Switzerland – April – linklink
  • Salon l’Art et la Matière, Saint-Pierre-lès-Nemours – March – link
  • Art Capital, Salon des IndĂ©pendants, Paris – February                Video

2022

  • Expo Metro Miami, Les Wagonettes during Art Basel Beach, USA – December  linklink
  • 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, OpĂ©ra-ChaussĂ©e d’Antin, Paris – 2020     Video
  • Publications:                                                                                                                 Laurie CARTđź‘€N
    >Laurie CARTOON plays with color, Éclaireur du Gâtinais
    – 2020
  • Solo Exhibition, Galerie ARTES, rue Sauton, Paris – 2018