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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT - BIOGRAPHY

HÉLÈNE LHOTE LIVES AND WORKS IN PARIS / FRANCE

The confrontation of opposites, always with the temptation tocreconcile them, is the heart of Hélène Lhote’s artistic research. She composes her installations according to the interior or exterior spaces entrusted to her. Algeria, Morocco and Iran - the countries of her childhood - strongly imbued her imagination. Returning to France as a teenager, she discovered other landscapes, sensations and lights, but above all, another culture. chis diversity has deeply innervated her work. Trained at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in painting, she was always interested in the materials and forms of ornamental art (light like mirrored wallpaper, the curves of calligraphy, grids, moucharabiehs...), she progressively oriented towards sculpture and bewilders us with the diversity of her production, one focused on mobility and the idiosyncrasy of perception. Her work is the subject of numerous installations in exceptional and very different places: colleges, gardens, parks or public buildings.

Inscribing her works in contemporary or historical architectural spaces, Hélène Lhote interposes her objects between light and the viewer, thus provoking original, unusual stimuli in them, capable of awakening the acuity of our senses. Since 1985, she has multiplied the experiences of collaboration and partnerships with galleries, cultural institutions and businesses. She creates and responds to private or public commissions in a language specific to materials such as enamel on steel, metal, mirror, stained glass - to which light is added, depending on the work.

At the same time, since 2002, Hélène Lhote has created, under the generic appellation : L.N.2.3, a mirror stamp which she pursuescin an urban fashion. The shards, luminous cut-out mirrors punctuate the cadence of the city and the established rhythms; they bear witness to a passage, an affection, the recognition of a place or a presence. Reminiscences of the Persian culture that is familiar to her, these mirrors are the strong sign of a world that cannot be forgotten.

  • 2018 Neon-light screen sculptures for La Maison Cartier, Cartier Parfums, Paris.

  • 2013 - 2014 Set of perennial sculptures for the Garden of the “la Borie-en-Limousin” Foundation, Solignac.
  • 2011  1% artistic, sculpture for a social housing complex 131, rue E. Tremblay, Vitry-sur-Seine.
  • 2008 2008 sculpture and stained glass windows on the facade and interior, Vitry-sur-Seine, Rouget de l’isle 1% artistic multi-reception crèche.
  • 2007 1% artistic, stained glass sculpture, Revigny-sur-Ornain, School of Music
  • 2001 Grant for the creation of Chartres stained glass and Grant from the George Sugarman U.S.A. Foundation

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:

  • 2024. Ailleurs, entire work of art, Paris 5

  • 2023. Flashback & Préambule, Galerie Terrain-Vagh, Paris 5
  • 2021. Pearl House and Wardrobe, L’Imprimerie Gallery, Amiens
  • 2018. Volte-Facettes, Old Church, Ianchelevici Center, Maisons-Laffitte
  • 2016. L’Attirail, L’Imprimerie Gallery, Amiens ; Finery for a Concert, Marguerite Yourcenar Media Library, Rosny-sous-Bois
  • 2015. High school, College, Henri Matisse School, Montreuil.
  • 2014. Season launch - Espace Georges Simenon, Rosny-sous-Bois.
  • 2012. AngLes Multiples - Le Cabinet d’Amateur, Paris 11
  • 2011. The Theatre, the Home, the Light... - Espace Georges Simenon, Rosny-sous-Bois. Paradise under Construction - College Gambetta, Cahors.
  • 2010. L.N.2.3, Le Cabinet d’Amateur, Paris 11
  • 2009. Wonder Room, Galerie Area, Paris 10
  • 2007. Copart, Revigny-sur-Ornain.
  • 2006. Day and Night, Electrorama, Paris 5 Convention Center and Boiron Lyon & Sainte-Foy site.
  • 2004. A.I.A. Gallery, Aspen, USA. ; Espace Saint-Louis, Bar-le-Duc.
  • 2002.  ZigZag, Saint-André Collegiale Church, Chartres.
  • 2001. Galerie les Singuliers, Paris 8

RECENT COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS:

 

  • 2025. The Pioneers of Graffiti and Friends, Rossini Auction House Paris 9

  • 2024. The Pioneers of Graffiti in Paris Today, Rossini Auction House Paris 9

  • 2023. Art 9,  City Hall Paris 9

  • 2022. Yellow Sun & Mechanical Reflections, Laurent Chabot / Hélène Lhote , Aiguillage Gallery Paris 13 ; Quai Ouest, Woodstock Association, Montour-les-Buttes

  • 2021. Pleins Feux d'Ivry-sur-Seine, Laurent Chabot / Hélène Lhote, Ivry-sur-Seine ; Beyrouth, Galerie Terrain-Vagh, Paris

  • 2019. Récréation, Galerie Terrain-Vagh, Paris 5

  • 2018. To Abstract, Point Rouge Gallery, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
  • 2017. 2018. 2019. 2020. 2021. International Fair of Rare Books and Art Objects, Artvie Galerie Sylvie Vervaët Grand Palais Paris 8
  • 2016. Eye to Eye, Sophie Marcellin Gallery Paris 9 ; Dance on the Walls - Urban Art Festival - Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Espace Vera ; La Clef ; Les Rotondes Exhibition ; curator Claire Prat-Marca Gallery.

  • 2015. Funny Impressions - Le Cabinet d’amateur, Paris 11 ; To you to Play - Le Cabinet d’Amateur, Paris 11
    AACE - French Institute of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain.
    AACE - EDS Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain ;
    Regent Garden, Galerie Prat-Marca, Paris 17

  • 2014. The Electric Gallery, Paris 14 ; Forest Fantasies, Woodstock Association, Montour-les-Buttes.
    AACE - French Institute of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain.
    AACE - EDS Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain.
    Buffonneries, Le Cabinet d’Amateur, Paris 11
  • 2013. Between Collage and Collab’ and Small is Beautiful 3, Le Cabinet d’Amateur, Paris 11
  • 2012. A House Like Any Other, City Hall Paris 5 ; Artists' Planters, Workshop of Wabé Sculptor, Montreuil.
  • Urban collages, Le Cabinet d’Amateur, Paris
  • 2011. Orléans Artists, 104th Salon. Guest of honor - Collegiate Church of Saint-Pierre-le-Puellier, Orléans ;
    Hors Les Murs (Part II), Le Cabinet d’Amateur, Paris 11 ;
    Light sculptures, Fucus System, Electrorama, Paris 5 ; Château de Mercuès, Mercuès, Cahors.
    Paella & L.N.2.3 , Librairie les P’tis Papiers, Chartres.
    Summer section - Samantha Sellem Gallery, Paris 6 ; Carte blanche to Françoise Monnin ; Immediate Collages, Le Cabinet d’Amateur, Paris 11
  • 2010. MACparis 2010,  Espace Champerret, Paris 17 ;
    Excluding Walls , Le Cabinet d’Amateur, Paris 11 ;
    Small is Beautiful, Le Cabinet d’Amateur, Paris 11

  • 1987 HÉLÈNE LHOTE graduated from the ÉCOLE NATIONALE SUPÉRIEURE DES BEAUX ARTS DE PARIS - painting section.