Camille Fontaine

I am a French painter living now in the Loire Valley, France, after living and studying in Paris and Tokyo. My work is related to time. Suspended time, eternal or just a moment. The painting makes it eternal. I paint my surroundings (details, objects, animals, landscapes, nature, places...) in various sizes, using oil on canvas with large brushes. I try to keep it fresh, spontaneous and radiant thanks to the strong use of colors. I wish to catch the moment of the encounter with the subject. My paintings may bring you strength and serenity.

2005-2008
MFA PAINTING, TOKYO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF FINE ARTS, JAPAN
1998-2003
MA VISUAL COMMUNICATION, ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE DES ARTS DECORATIFS, PARIS (ENSAD)
2000
ERASMUS scholarship, CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS SCHOOL OF ARTS, LONDON

(selection)
2021
- PHANTOM/Phantasmagoria, Museum of the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2020
-Artistic walk of Molineuf, France
2019
- RIO, TOKYO, PARIS des villes, des Jeux OSCAR OIWA with MAKIKO TANAKA and CAMILLE FONTAINE
Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris / Paris / 18 September - 14 December 2019
- Permanent exhibition (selection of works), Galerie Bessières, Chatou (78), France
2017
- Si loin si proche, with the Bangladeshi artist Imtiaj Shohag, Fluide Gallery, Château de Chémery, Loire Valley, France
2016
- 17th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh, Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Transition, French-Japanese exhibition, curated with Kyoko Kasuya, Fluide Gallery, Château de Chémery, France
2012
- Inter:sections, Japanese-French Institute of Kansai, Kyoto, Japan
- Tristes Tropiques, CROUS gallery of Paris (SOLO EXHIBITION)
2009
- Novembre à Vitry, city gallery of Vitry-sur-seine, France
- Olivier Nouvellet gallery, Paris
- Montrouge’s 54th show of contemporary art, Montrouge, France (Curator : Stéphane Corréard)
2008
- Inland Sea, Open Door gallery, Tokyo, Japan (SOLO EXHIBITION)
- Suspended Time, Masters Graduate students’ closing show, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts, To...