Maïlys Seydoux-Dumas (born 1967) is a French visual artist known for her work in painting, engraving, tapestry, and jewellery design. Her work often explores everyday life, memory, and the interplay between objects and their environment. She lives and works in Paris and Haute-Normandie, France.
Early life and education Maïlys Seydoux-Dumas was born on 22 June 1967 in Saumur, France. Following a high school education in Varengeville-sur-Mer, she studied between 1986 and 1988 at Penninghen, the School of Art Direction and Interior Architecture in Paris. Subsequently, she enrolled at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD) in Paris, graduating in 1992, with a specialisation in printed image and engraving. In 1993, she completed further training in engraving under the guidance of Jean Clerté.
Career Maïlys Seydoux-Dumas' work encompasses printmaking, etching, painting, and decorative arts. She creates tapestries, a line of jewelry, and figurative artworks that often feature self-portraits and intimate views of her studio. Many of her tapestries are created in collaboration with the artist Haïm Kern, whose poetry inspires her work.
Since 1997, Seydoux-Dumas has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in France, Belgium, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. Since 2022, she has collaborated with the gallery MiniMasterpiece.
She works in her studio in the 17th arrondissement of Paris and in Varengeville-sur-Mer.
Selected exhibitions
2000s
2000 – Vue d’Atelier, Maison Henri IV, Saint-Valery-en-Caux, France 2003 – Prélude Prélude, Galerie Koralewski, Paris, France 2006 – Vues d’Atelier, Galerie Koralewski, Paris, France 2007 – St-Art Art Fair, Galerie Koralewski, Strasbourg, France
2010s
2010 – Portraits, Galerie Koralewski, Paris, France 2015 – Des Miroirs et des Fenêtres, City Hall, Varengeville-sur-Mer, France 2016 – Éclats, Galerie Fred Lanzenberg, Brussels, Belgium 2019 – Histoire de Peintre, Centre Culturel, Médiathèque Alexandre Dumas, Villers-Cotterêts, France
2020s
2020 – Bleu Or Rose, Galerie Sagot le-Garrec, Paris, France 2020 – Le rideau se lève aux Acacias, Scène d’atelier, Domaine du Château de Varengeville-sur-Mer, France 2022 – Galerie Mini Masterpiece, Paris, France Art Fair 2022 – Une Étoile au Théâtre, Le Salon Vert, Carouge, Geneva, Switzerland
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