Lauren Coullard | MOUNTAINS

*1981, Paris, France. Lives and works in Paris and Montpellier

Lauren Coullard’s pictorial practice channels a multitude of characters in polychrome environments, like so many quotes from authors and eras that captivate her. Her polymorphic style comes from the multiple sources that telescope in her collages and paintings. The diversity of her supports – wood, canvas, foam, hand stretched frames, cereal packets – contributes to this dynamic. She borrows techniques from symbolism, romanticism, abstract expressionism and post-modernism. Her iconographic material is arranged in her collages which correspond to the preliminary phase of her paintings, mixing re-photocopied images and plasticized scraps, constituting the “black box” of the studio. It is from there that she associates mythological and neo-medieval references with futuristic comics and mangas, converging towards the creation of hybrid (super)-heroines. ⸺ Lila Torquéo

Upcoming and recent solo exhibitions (selection)
Alte Tankstelle Deutz, Cologne, DE (opening for DC Open, September 2025); Mountains, Berlin, DE (2025); DOC, Paris, FR (2025); A.ROMY, Zurich, CH (2022); Les Limbes, Saint-Etienne, FR (2021); Mountains, Berlin, DE (2020); Lily Robert, Paris, FR (2019); Palomar Projects, Paris, FR (2019); C4RD – Center For Recent Drawing, London, UK (2018); Silicon Malley, Lausanne, CH (2017).

Group exhibitions (selection)
Exo Exo, Paris, FR (2022); The Bass, Miami Beach, US (2022); Sans titre (2016), Paris, FR (2021); Idealfrühstück, Paris, FR (2021); High Art, Paris, FR (2020); Galerie Vallois, Paris, FR (2019); Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge, FR (2018); La Tôlerie, Clermont-Ferrand, FR (2018); New Bretagne/Belle Air, Essen, DE (2016); Treize, Paris, FR (2015); Peter Bergman Gallery, Stockholm, SV (2011), Auto Italia, London, UK (2009).

Coullard’s work was featured in Artforum, Temple Magazine, Libération, Beaux-Arts Magazine, and others. Lauren Coullard is also a co-founder of Paris artistic space and work residency DOC!

Gallery exhibitions
2025 Uncanny Valley
2022 Covered in Feathers
2020 Boutique
2020 Angels on a Needle

Further exhibitions (selection)
2025 They Hover Over Me, DOC, Paris, FR
2022 Si tu te sens frémir, meurs, avance, frappe!, A. ROMY, Zurich, CH

Selected works
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Lauren Coullard, Hedgehog Strategy, 2024 · Acrylic, oil and permanent marker on canvas · 120 × 100 cm