Camille Courier

Biography

Camille Courier was born in Paris in 1975.
After studying at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, she earned a PhD in Art Studies and Practices from the Université du Québec à Montréal in 2022. Her practice-based dissertation explored the relationships between the gestures of drawing, contemporary trajectories of exile, and emerging micropolitical dynamics.

Since 2003, she has exhibited in Europe, the Middle East, and Canada in numerous group and solo exhibitions. In 2009, she took part, as a member of a team of Egyptologists, in the survey and publication of carved wall reliefs from the Temple of Karnak in Upper Egypt.

Her practice is firmly rooted in contemporary art movements that draw inspiration from archaeology. She develops an expanded approach to drawing, combining ink, watercolor, and digital technologies (such as motion capture) on large-scale formats that engage in dialogue with public space and architecture.

A transdisciplinary artist, Camille Courrier regularly collaborates with stage directors, choreographers, and artistic collectives working in theater and contemporary dance. Her drawing practice thus unfolds through a logic of co-presence, listening, and relational engagement with bodies and places. She examines the graphic gesture as an act of resistance, remembrance, and the recomposition of often marginalized narratives. Recurring themes in her work include exile, vulnerability, embodied memory, and spaces of care and institutionalization.

On the occasion of the installation Archéopoétique #2, presented in the vaults of the Musée de l'Îlot des Palais in Québec City, Camille Courrier offers a sensitive and critical reinterpretation of the famous Neolithic “Venuses.” These prehistoric statuettes depict female representations associated with cycles of fertility, life, and transmission. The large-scale drawings created by the artist, produced according to protocols inspired by experimental archaeology, reinterpret these matrix-like figures in dialogue with Egyptian statuettes from the museum's collections

Exhibitions selected

2026   Drawing Experience, Drawing Research Network, Loughborough University,
Loughborough Royaume Unis
2026   Insoumissions #2. Biennale de Québec/la Manif d'Art, Québec, Canada
2025   Vulnérables, Grande Chapelle St Louis de la Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris, France
2022   Archéopoétique II, Musée de l'îlot des Palais, Québec, Canada
2022   Ombres de gestes, Réseau Hexagram-UQAM, Montréal Canada
2021   Ombres d'exil, Salle d'expérimentation d'Hexagram-UQAM, Montréal, Canada
2013-2014   Aliaa Magda Hommage, Galerie Violette & co, Paris, France
2013   Sacré Printemps, Château de Saint-Ouen. Saint-Ouen, France
2012   Dots, Galerie l'Édito, Paris, France
2012   La Belle et la Bête, Galerie Art Cube, Paris, France
2007   Piscines, Galerie Atelier du Génie, Paris, France
2006-2007   Fenêtres ouvertes sur Sana'a, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France