Pauline Douady is a French visual artist whose practice—spanning drawing, printmaking, and painting—explores the phenomenon of life: the pulses, resonances, and circulations that connect beings, places, and experiences. A synesthete, she translates sounds, words, and atmospheres into colors, rhythms, and gestures, giving rise to organic forms that move between abstraction and figuration.
Her approach is deeply sensory and intuitive, nourished by attentive listening and a sensitivity to nuance. She works through layering, erasure, and continuous movement, following a rhizomatic logic: open, horizontal, and always connected to encounters, traversed spaces, and the narratives that resonate with her.
Self-taught, she shaped her visual language during a formative stay in Buenos Aires, working alongside painter Jorge Demirjian, where she developed a refined sensitivity to form and the internal dynamics of composition. At the Beaux-Arts of Angers, she discovered lithography and developed a singular approach to printmaking: limited, often unique prints in which the material becomes an experimental space rather than a tool of reproduction.
Based in Toulon from 2017, she explored intaglio, woodcut, and mural painting, and co-founded the first Printmaking Festival of Toulon in 2019 with Sacha Stoliarova.
Now living in Toronto, she continues her research into gesture, inner perception, and connection, creating works that invite a moment of breathing—a renewed attention to sensory experience and the forces that move through us.
Group Exhibitions
2025 — Atelier SuperNova, print exhibition for the Printmaking Festival
2024 — Metaxu, print exhibition for the Printmaking Festival
2021–22 — Galerie 2bis, Marseille, Petite Foire d’Art Contemporain
2019 — Mairie d’Honneur, Toulon
Galerie Les Frangines, Toulon
2015–16 — Maine-et-Loire (49), open studios Les Arts à la Campagne
Seiches-sur-le-Loir (49), Journées du Patrimoine, Château de Brignac
2013 — Buenos Aires (Argentina), 11 12 13, Atelier Jorge Demirjian
Solo Exhibitions
2025 — Restaurant Mazette, Hyères (83)
2022–23 — Maï B Atypique Concept Store, Toulon
2020 — Galerie Simona de Simoni, Toulon, Toujours la vie vaincra
2019 — City Var (coworking and health space), La Garde
2018 — Salle des Machines (Port des Créateurs), Toulon
2017 — Librairie Les Lettres du Temps, Paris 13
2014 — Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Printmaking Workshops & Demonstrations (with press)
2021 — Galerie 2bis, Marseille, two “Print Your T-Shirt” sessions
2019 — Les Nuits Blanches, Hyères
Street workshop, 2nd anniversary of Rue des Arts, Toulon
2018 — Le Télégraphe, Toulon, festive evening & Balkanic Boomerang
Art Events & Performances
2025 — Printmaking happening in homage to Argentinian artist Antonio Berni
2024 — Manifestampe open call; organization of the Printmaking Festival (25 May)
2023 — Avignon City Hall open call, collective mural for Square Indochine
2022 — Association Habilis (Barbentane, 13), collective mural for the Environment Festival
2020 — Artistic coordination for the visit of Ewa Budka (New York) for the 2nd Printmaking Festival in Toulon
2019 — Manifestampe open call; organization of the 1st Printmaking Festival in Toulon at Le Télégraphe