Behind the Color

Laurie CARTOON

Contemporary & Digital Artist

Laurie CARTOON develops an artistic practice centred on memory, presence, and the transformation of images. Her work explores both the human face and empty spaces, conceived as sensitive territories where traces, silences, and visual remnants persist.

Trained in Haute Couture, she has transferred her attention to detail, materials, and light into a digital practice combining photography, digital painting, and artificial intelligence. This background informs a rigorous approach to composition and colour, serving images that are both carefully constructed and open to interpretation.

Her portrait series question identity and collective memory through familiar yet unstable figures, evoking fictional archives and suspended presences. In parallel, her landscape and architectural series — Architecture of Silence, Industrial Solitude, Call me back — focus on spaces devoid of explicit human presence, where architecture becomes a silent witness to past or suspended activity.

Artificial intelligence is integrated as a research tool within a demanding creative process, based on constant back-and-forth between artistic intention and algorithmic transformation. Far from automation, each image is refined and reworked until a formal and emotional balance is achieved.

Across all her series, Laurie CART👀N develops a coherent investigation into the persistence of images, the memory of places, and the way time shapes perception — whether through faces, landscapes, or silent spaces.

The CART👀N signature visually incorporates the motif of the gaze into the artist’s name, echoing themes of observation, perception, and memory that run throughout her work.

Motto

“Create with joy, colour and freedom.”

This motto reflects an artistic practice in which colour, light, and emotion remain essential driving forces of the creative process.

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