Cécile Duchêne Malissin

French artist, born in Paris (France), she currently lives and works in Montargis, near Paris.

Both realistic and dreamlike, Cécile Duchêne Malissin’s painting implies some introspection. Characters or animals are shown in abstract settings or lush vegetation. Her works exude a powerful attraction and conveys reverie. They are bushy, free, imaginative compositions and a poetic and singular universe.

Her portraits express a meditative abandonment and the richness of an inner life. Childhood, is also tackled and evokes the loss of innocence as well as facing the brutality of the world. The viewer is caught by the serious and mysterious gaze of her characters: who observes who, in this disturbing face-to-face?

Relations to nature, to oneself and to others are questioned here. Working on paper or canvas, mixing different techniques (acrylic paint, oil pastels, graphite lead, collage and sometimes sewing...), the works thus created carry in them both a delicacy but also a certain strangeness. The relationship to the body and its fragility are evoked by transparencies which is conferred by a subtle game of collages mixed with acrylic. Memory, forgetfulness, transience of existence are suggested.

• Graduated from Superior School Arts Appliqués O. de Serres (Paris, FRANCE) - Plasticien
• Graduated from Facultly of Arts (Strasbourg, FRANCE)

Selected SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026
• "Forgotten Garden" on ARTSY with Riana Raouna Gallery
2025
• Decorde Gallery, Strasbourg
2022
• L'entrée des Artistes Gallery, Paris, France
2021
• Feral Gallery - Art et vin, Bordeaux, France
• Au-delà des Apparences Gallery, Annecy, France
2018
• Courant d'Art Gallery - Mulhouse, France
• Council of Europe - Strasbourg, France

Selected GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
• Année Gallery, Haarlem, Netherlands
• Decorde Gallery, Strasbourg, France
2025
• ART Cy - Art Conference and Exhibition, Limassol, Cyprus
• Le Cube Vernet Gallery, Avignon
• Contemporary Art Fair St'Art, Parc des Expositions, Strasbourg
2024
• Contemporary Art Fair St'Art, Parc des Expositions, Strasbourg
• Riana Raouna Gallery - Faces and Figures, Nicosia, Cyprus
• Decorde Gallery - DIASPORE, Strasbourg, France
• Decorde Gallery - BLUE, Strasbourg, France
2023
• Courant d'Art Gallery, Mulhouse, France
• Contemporary Art Fair St'Art, Strasbourg, France
• Decorde Gallery - Summer Group Show, Strasbourg, France
2022
• Hors Champs Gallery, Paris, France
• Au-delà des Apparences Gallery, Annecy, France
• Contemporary Art Fair St'Art, Parc des expositions, Strasbourg,
• Contemporary Art Fair Art Montpel...