​Biography

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Born 1979, Paris

Lives and works in Paris

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Between tropical haze and contemporary mirage

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Born and based in Paris, Pierre Roy-Camille maintains deep ties with Martinique, a connection that feeds the emotional and symbolic strata of his work. The island’s saturated humidity, post-colonial echoes, and elemental forces resonate throughout his practice, like a slow-burning undertow. His images often seem to rise from loose soil, a cloud of dust, or a curtain of rain.

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A deliberately unbound artist, Roy-Camille refuses to be confined to any single medium or format. His practice moves fluidly between large-scale outdoor murals, dreamlike Hermès window displays in Shanghai, hand-worked papers, and more recently, textile experiments. In 2022, he spent three months in India, at the Kalhat Institute in Lucknow, studying traditional weaving techniques, a continuation of his deep engagement with materials and embodied knowledge.

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Across ghostly landscapes (sunken cities, fading architectures, expanding vegetation), he explores a form of contemporary romanticism shaped by natural forces and memory. His pieces blur categorization: are they paintings? Prints? Drawings? The ambiguity is intentional. Roy-Camille welcomes that moment of uncertainty in the viewer’s gaze, that subtle disorientation. He builds images like mirages: layered, translucent, elusive. Nothing is fixed. Everything seems caught in a state of emergence or disappearance.

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His works resist immediate interpretation. They ask for time, for stillness. Within their quiet, suspended space, the viewer is not asked to decode, but simply to stay, and dwell in the mystery.

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2021 January – February: Mural on the SARA tank with Rubis Mécénat, Le Lamentin, Martinique, France

2020 July 23 – August 26: Let The Flowers Bloom at Altro Mondo, Makati, Philippines
2019 March 23 – April 22: Five Hundred Years Ago at Altro Mondo Creative Space, Makati, Philippines
2019 February 23 – March 17: Ouverture at Altro Mondo, Makati, Philippines
2016 November 14 – 18: Miquelon (mural) in Schoelcher, Martinique, France
2016 September – November: The Rock, the Sea and the Forest (Hermès windows), Shanghai, China
2016 February 11 – March 19: Le Souvenir avec le Crépuscule at Galerie Maeght, Paris, France
2015 March 7 – May 9: Painting is the Pattern at Jules Maeght Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2014 May 16 – June 22: Surnaturels at Fondation Clément, Martinique, France
2012 March 10 – April 20: Earth, Wind and Fire at Since Gallery, Paris, France

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Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 June: Mural created for the summer season at the Maeght Foundation, Saint-Paul de Vence, France

2025 April 3 – 26: Into the woods at Galerie Tamenaga, Paris, France

2024 June: Inclusion in the Maeght Foundation’s collection for its 60th anniversary, Saint-Paul de Vence, France

2019 March 8 – 23: À la prochaine at Jules Maeght Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2018 March: Art Fair Philippines, Manila
2018 February: Art Karlsruhe, Germany
2017 January – February: Printers Matters, Paris, France
2014 December 5 – January 17 (2015): Éditions Limitées at Galerie Maeght, Paris, France
2014 September 19 – October 31: Rancho Mirage at Galerie Perception Park, Paris, France
2014 February 13 – April 5: Éternel Retour at Galerie Perception Park, Paris, France

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