Artistic career

Claire Artemyz turned to art after initially pursuing a career in biology. In 1999, she began studying fine arts and aesthetics at Paris I University and took video and photography classes at Gobelins Paris.
She creates short experimental videos, which she combines with music and poetry, in collaboration with other artists. She showed these works at festivals between 2000 and 2003.
In 2003, her encounter with the world of tattooing was a decisive moment in her career and marked a turning point in her artistic practice. She films and photographs tattoo artists at work. She created video and journalistic portraits of them, but also got up close and personal with their work, capturing its intimate and irreversible nature: the moment when the needle pierces the skin, when bodily fluids flow as the ink penetrates. Gradually, she began to focus on photography, eventually making it her exclusive practice. She has exhibited in galleries in Copenhagen, Tokyo, and Paris, as well as in the tattoo world (studios and conventions) on numerous occasions, in France and abroad (Amsterdam, New York).

In 2009, she became interested in themes that are often represented in tattoo designs: skulls and scenes inspired by Christianity. Since 2011, she has been exhibiting her Christian-inspired photographs in churches and shrines. She is interested in the Sacred Wounds of the Crucifixion of Jesus and representations of Mary, through the exploration of statuary.

Since 2010, she has been photographing original prehistoric objects preserved in numerous museums and has been invited to exhibit her work there. In 2011, 2012, and 2013, she participated in Prehistory Month at the National Archaeology Museum in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. In 2019-2020, she was artist-in-residence at the Musée de l'Abbaye d'Arthous in the Landes region, and in 2023 she will be artist-in-residence at the Musée d'Archéologie Nationale, thanks to a grant from the Île-de-France region.

She also organizes thematic group exhibitions that bring together painting, sculpture, photography, and performance art, as well as meetings with prehistoric specialists. She has published an artist's book on Paleolithic Venuses entitled "À une passante" (To a Passing Woman) and is preparing a second book in collaboration with Aurélien Simonet, prehistorian (Laboratoire Traces, University of Toulouse 2) and heritage curator (Landes).

Solo shows

2024
Galerie Le linteau rouge, Traverser les âges de main humaine, Saint-Brieuc, FRANCE
Église Saint-Louis-en-L’Île, Des Couleurs pour le Temps, Marais chrétien et Semaine des Curieux, Paris, FRANCE

2023
Église Saint-Gervais, Une Lumière sur mon sentier(A Light on My Path), Paris, FRANCE

2021
Église Saint-Louis-en-L’Île, Un Don d’Amour, Paris, FRANCE

2020-21
Musée de l’Abbaye d’Arthous, Au grand galop, Hastingues, FRANCE

2019
Médiathèque des Ulis, Fête de la Science, Bestiaire et Cie, Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, FRANCE
Maison et Archéoparc de la Dame, La danse des grottes, Brassempouy, FRANCE

2018
Église Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs, Selon votre Parole, Paris, FRANCE
Bibliothèque du Musée de l’Homme, 150 ans de la découverte de Cro-Magnon, Paris, FRANCE
Institut de Paléontologie Humaine, Fouilles du Lazaret, Paris, FRANCE
As part of the symposium "Paleolithic Art at Risk of Meaning," exhibition Les Vénus, CCIC, Cerisy, FRANCE

2017
Église Saint-Gervais Saint-Protais, De tout votre cœur, Marais chrétien, Paris, FRANCE
Sanctuary of Île-Bouchard, Selon Votre Parole, L’Île-Bouchard, FRANCE
Musée de l’Avallonais and University of Nanterre, Objets d’étude, (MAE), Nanterre and Avallon, FRANCE

2016
Ville de Montignac et Galerie de Montignac-Lascaux,Au Bonheur des Dames, Montignac-Lascaux, FRANCE

2015
Society of Friends of the Museum of Man, Mother Nature & Mother Culture, Oceanic Branch, Pornic, FRANCE

2014
Maison de la Dame,Il était une fois…, Brassempouy, FRANCE
Palais des congrès, Cinquantenaire des fouilles, Mémoires de Tautavel, Tautavel, FRANCE

2013
Église Saint Polycarpe, Peccata Mundi, Lyon, FRANCE

2012
Musée d’Archéologie Nationale, D’os et de pierre, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, FRANCE
Musée d’Archéologie Nationale, Bestiaire et Cie, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, FRANCE
Atelier-galerie Le Cerisier, Mois de la Photo-OFF, Mémoires d’Océans, Paris, FRANCE

2011
Galerie Le Toit du Monde, Festival Photo Saint-Germain des Prés, Les Témoins Silencieux, Paris, FRANCE
Musée d’Archéologie Nationale, Mémoires II, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, FRANCE
Archéoparc, Mémoires, Val Senales, ITALY

Public collections

Museum of Man, Paris, FRANCE

International Center for Cave Art, Montignac-Lascaux, FRANCE

National Archaeology Museum, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, FRANCE

Archeological site of Roc-de-Sers, FRANCE

Treasure Room of Arthous Abbey, FRANCE

Exhibition curator

2025
Handmade, Le Cerisier workshop and gallery, Paris, FRANCE

2018
La Chaîne et la Trame & Au fil de l’os, Atelier-galerie Le Cerisier, Paris, FRANCE

2017
Prehistory and Shamanism, Atelier-galerie Le Cerisier, Paris, FRANCE

2014
L’Écho des Cavernes, Atelier-galerie Le Cerisier, Paris, FRANCE
Super-Naturel, Atelier-galerie Le Cerisier, Paris, FRANCE

Publications

Book

Artist's book, À une passante, les Vénus de la préhistoire(To a passerby, the Venuses of prehistory), Corridor Eléphant Publishing, 2019

Exhibition catalogs

Sanctuary of L’Île-Bouchard, According to Your Word, poems by Jean-Romain Frisch, 2018

Avallonais Museum, Objects of Study, 2017

National Archaeology Museum, Au bonheur des Dames, Bestiaire et compagnie, D’os et de pierre, 2012

Le Toit du Monde Gallery, Silent Witnesses, 2011

Web

www.bradshawfoundation.com
www.hominides.com
www.parisnanterre.fr

Group shows

2025
Le Cerisier studio-gallery, Handmade, Paris, FRANCE

2020-19
Galerie l’Art et la Matière, Autour de Saint-Louis, Paris, FRANCE
Atelier-galerie Le Cerisier, À la lueur du feu, femmes de la préhistoire, Paris, FRANCE

2018
Musée de l’Homme, Néandertal, l’expo, Paris, FRANCE
Atelier-galerie Le Cerisier, La Chaîne et la Trame & Au fil de l’os, Paris, FRANCE
Magazine Corridor Éléphant, Au-delà de cette limite, prière de se taire, virtual exhibition

2017
Le Cerisier studio-gallery, Prehistory and Shamanism, Paris, FRANCE

2015
Ici-Magazzino del Caffè,Zan Par, Curator François Pannier, Venice, ITALY

2014
Atelier-galerie Le Cerisier, L’Écho des Cavernes, Paris, FRANCE

2011
Fondation de Watteville, "Aluminum, intrusion into art" Curator François Pannier, Martigny, SWITZERLAND
Atelier-galerie Le Cerisier, Super-Naturel, Paris, FRANCE

2009
MAPRA Association, Habeas Corpus, Lyon, FRANCE
Museum of Contemporary Art, Xth Northern Ink Xposure, Toronto, CANADA

Trade shows and festivals

2012
MAC PARIS, The Smallest of All Things, Paris, FRANCE

2011
Contemporary art fair "Berliner Liste," Memento mori, Berlin, GERMANY

2009
Festival des Autres Images, Je te présente mon corps, La Rochelle, FRANCE

Residence

2023
Artist residency at the National Archaeology Museum, IDF Region Grant, research on tools, children's workshops, organization of artist-scientist meetings, preparation of a publication, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, FRANCE

Public procurement

2015
Production of photos exhibited as part of the permanent exhibition, Roc-de-Sers archaeological site

Mediation

2023
Leading children's workshops: photography, as part of the artist residency at the National Archaeology Museum, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, FRANCE

Conferences

2018
Prehistory and Contemporary Art, an Underground Passage?, seminar organized by François Jeune at INHA, Paris, FRANCE

2016
Paleolithic and Mesolithic International Conference, British Museum, London, UNITED KINGDOM
Evolution of the brain and cognitive abilities of fossil hominids, international symposium, Tautavel, FRANCE

2013
Ice Age Art, Poster presentation at Ice Age Art exhibition and symposium, British Museum, London, UNITED KINGDOM

2010
Art in Translation, International Conference on Language and the Arts, Tattoo as a Language, University of Iceland and the Nordic House, Reykjavik, ICELAND

Training courses

2024
AI and graphics, Video design

2001
Video and photography training, École des Gobelins, Paris

1999
Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts and Aesthetics, University of Paris I, Paris

1981
Physician and Doctor of Universities in neurobiology