Camille de Galbert

Born in 1982, Camille de Galbert is a French-American multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Her practice moves seamlessly between encaustic painting and sculpture, drawing and film. Whatever the medium she uses, this self-taught visual artist draws heavily upon movement and her past experience as a dancer. 

Camille de Galbert’s work revels in form, volume and texture.  She uses repetitive and accumulative mark-making as a way to explore the structures and shapes of organic matter. Using wax, latex or silicone some shapes evoke the sedimentation of time, some feel like smooth skins, others can seem like distorted bodies.

Camille de Galbert graduated from France’s Conservatoire of Grenoble and continued her contemporary dance studies in New York, at The Merce Cunningham Studio. Injuring her knee marked a twist of fate, as she turned her creative attention to filmmaking, sculpture and drawing. 

She is an artist fellow at the Jerome Foundation (USA), her artwork has been exhibited at La Maison Rouge (Paris), me Collectors Room (Berlin), Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto (Biella, Italy). Her films were selected at over 50 festivals globally and won Best Short at the Miami Short Film Festival (2015), Blowup International Chicago  and the Richmond International Film Festival (2016).

Website: https://www.camilledegalbert.com/