Coline Gaulot is a French visual artist born in 1986 in Colombes who lives and works in Bordeaux. After studying performing arts and scenography, she trained at the Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux and at Fukuoka University of the Arts in Japan, where she encountered traditional Japanese painting. Her transdisciplinary practice moves between painting, writing, sculpture, ceramics, photography and installation. Colour and narrative link these media, while ordinary motifs—pools, bouquets, celebrations, food and domestic objects—open onto questions of intimacy, memory and shared experience.
Gaulot often works through series that begin with a lived situation, a familiar ritual or a meeting. Vivid painted surfaces, monochrome porcelain, stoneware objects and fragments of text hold personal stories without turning them into spectacle. Her attention to slow processes and patient making connects the physical qualities of materials with the unstable ways memories are told and received. She received the Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA prize in 2020 and the Prix Robert Coustet in 2025.
In 2026, Zone Trois Galerie in Bordeaux presented her solo exhibition I Wanna Be Your Chien de Faïence. Her exhibition Tendresses at Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, from 12 November 2026 to 3 January 2027, follows a year-long research and creation residency in the neonatal unit of Bordeaux’s children’s hospital. Photographs, installations, sculptures and texts trace encounters with families and healthcare workers, while a related collective installation remained in the hospital after its completion in October 2026.