
Elvire Caillon
French artist Elvire Caillon (b. 1989) is best known for her vibrant depictions of candid scenes from everyday life. Caillon portrays the subject matter and figures in her artworks in an unconventional manner – specifically, situating figures in her paintings similar to how actors and actresses are spotlighted on a theater stage. Caillon completed her studies in Arts plastiques at the Estienne School and Beaux Arts in Paris. For Caillon, color is a language in itself: she seeks to establish multidimensional scenes in her paintings through the use of solid areas of primary colors. Within her paintings, Caillon ultimately seeks to portray not just human relationships in action, but also snapshots of human life that reflect the transience of material life within the natural world.
Born on 13/09/1989 in Paris
EXHIBITIONS
2020 Galerie Liusa Wang, Paris : Running in the theatre, exhibition with Alice Browne
2019 Villa Belleville, Paris : Tapis !, artist carpet exhibition, curated by Orphée Salvy
2019 Salon de Montrouge, “64th edition of the Salon”, curated by Ami Barak et Marie Gautier
2018 Villa Médicis, Rome : Villa Pazza (Notte Bianca), curated by Théo-Mario Coppola
2017 Pavillon Carré de Baudoin, Paris : “Dans la place” curated by Stéphane Corréard
2017 Galerie Treize-Dix, Paris : “Quoi de neuf ? Savignac”, invitation by Michel Lagarde
2017 Villa Belleville, Paris : “How do you know tomorrow has started if there’s no night ?”
2016 Glassbox, Paris : “Là-bas”, curated by Théo-Mario Coppola
2016 HLM/Hors Les Murs, Marseille : “Crête à creux”,
2015 Espace Beaurepaire, Paris : “Crisscross”, exhibition of collective stamps
2015 Griffin Gallery, Londres : “Selective memories”, exhibition of collective stamps
2014 Beaux-Arts de Paris : serving suggestion, DNSAP
2010 Théâtre de la Commune, Aubervilliers : “Les Figurants”, personal exhibition
COLLABORATIONS
2021 Théâtre de Nanterre Amandiers : Conception of the show «Tempura Cockpit» with Léonard Martin
2020 Hermès : Creation of a window display for a boutique in Singapour, collaborating with Léonard Martin
2019 Cracki records : Visual identity of the Mirélo festival 2020, Marseille
2018 Les Indépendances : creation of a notebook cover for, Maison de production théatrale
2017 Agnès b. : creation of a kids collection in France and a Japanese line “To b.” for summer 2018
2016 Bouygues Construction : mural painting on the construction site of the ZAC of the Batignolles
2016 Festival Pampa : visual idnetity of the festival and theatre
2014-2016 INfluencia : different illustrations for the magazine
2014 Bagarre : associated to the french music band
2012 Galerie Marian Goodman Paris : creation of the «Wall drawings» for Sol Lewitt’s exhibition
2012 Théâtre National de Strasbourg : Scenography of the play, “Toboggan” by Gildas Milin Actes-Sud Papiers : Illustration fo the cover of the text in Toboggan
EDUCATION
2014 Beaux-Arts de Paris : DNSAP
2013 School of the Art Institute, Chicago, USA
2012 Beaux-Arts de Paris : DNAP
2009 Ecole Estienne (ESAIG) : DMA Illustration
EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES
2019-2020 Villa Belleville: coordinator at the screen printing workshop
2018 Association GFR / Collège La Courtille : workshop with a class in their last year of middleschool, La Courtille
2017-2018 Ateliers Médicis : «Création en cours» artistic reaserch grant and educational project carried out with two CM1 classes in a school of Montereau-Fault-Yonne (77)
2017 école Estienne /Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord : workshop dof one week with the illustartion students at the Estienne school for the show “Le Petit chaperon rouge” of Joël Pommerat
2017 Friche La Belle de mai : workshop of screen printing with the kids of the neighbourhood at the residence, Astérides of Marseille.
2015 Centre culturel Edgar Quinet (La Courneuve) : workshop of screenprinting in collaboration with the collectif d’architecture Double M
2013-2014 Beaux-Arts de Paris : screenprinting instructor at ENSBA’s workshop
PRICES AND RESIDENCES
2020 Lafayette Anticipations : Residence and production grant at «à l’œuvre» with Léonard Martin
2020 Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud : Residence and création of «Festivini», with the wine union of the vins de Saumur
2019-2020 Cité Internationale des Arts : residence with Léonard Martin, Paris
2017-2018 Ateliers Médicis : Programme «Création en cours», artistic resarch grant and elementary school project at the Montereau-Fault-Yonne (77)
2017 Villa Belleville : residence and creation, Paris
2016 Astérides : residence and creation, Friche la Belle de mai, Marseille
2014 Prize winner of contemporary drawing at the cabinet of Jean Bonna, Beaux-Arts de Paris
EDITIONS
2019 Catalogue of the 64th Salon de Montrouge : text by Françoise Doquiert
2019 Catalogue of the second exhibition «Création en cours» : project led by the Ateliers Médicis
2017 exhibition catalogue, “Dans la place” : Curated by Stéphane Corréard, text by Anna Bordenave