Claire Tabouret

Claire Tabouret (born in 1981 in Pertuis, France) is a French artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. She is known for figurative painting in bold colours, with an enigmatic atmosphere that remains charged with emotion, exploring identity and memory. Her portraits and group scenes, run through with psychological tension, also look closely at human relationships.

Claire Tabouret graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2006, after an exchange at the Cooper Union in New York in 2005. From 2009 to 2013 she painted the series "Maisons inondées" and "Migrants", and received the Yishu 8 Prize in Beijing. In 2015 she left her Paris studio for Los Angeles, where she began the series "Carnaval".

In 2021 the Musée Picasso exhibited her work with "Baigneuse assise". The same year, Perrotin showed her "Paysages d'intérieurs" in Paris, painted on coloured synthetic fur after landscapes by Giorgio Morandi, Pierre Bonnard and Ferdinand Hodler. These were followed in 2022 by an exhibition alongside the Venice Biennale, then "Au Bois d'Amour" at ICA Miami in 2023. Her work is held by the Centre Pompidou, LACMA and the Pinault Collection.

In 2024 she was chosen to design the new contemporary stained-glass windows for Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral. On 18 December, her proposal, submitted with the Simon-Marq studio in Reims, was selected for six chapels in the south aisle of the nave, on the theme of Pentecost. From 10 December 2025, the Grand Palais is showing the full-size models in "D'un seul souffle".