Hélène Delprat

Hélène Delprat (b. 1957, Paris) is a French artist who works in painting, drawing, film, video, installation, sculpture, and radio. She lives and works in Paris. Her sources include ancient mythology, film noir, French cinema, philosophy, and internet culture. After a residency at the Villa Medici in Rome (1982–84), she exhibited at Galerie Adrien Maeght for ten years, from 1985, coming to prominence with a figurative work of totemic character.

In the 2000s she produced small gouaches bearing ironic captions questioning the status of painting while maintaining a studio practice. Her return to exhibition — through Galerie Christophe Gaillard from 2017 — made available a body of work that had accumulated largely out of public view: monumental canvases in glittering pigment, self-portraits, video works, and installations drawing on literary and art-historical references. She taught at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris from 2014 to 2023. In 2024, Hauser & Wirth announced her representation and presented her debut with the gallery, Monster Soup, at their Paris space.

Solo exhibitions include La Maison Rouge, Paris (2017); Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen (2018); Kunsthalle Giessen (2020); Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris (2022); Museu Picasso, Barcelona (2023); and Monster Soup at Hauser & Wirth Paris (2024). She participated in the Lyon Biennale (2024, curated by Alexia Fabre). Her work is held by the Pinault Collection and has been shown at the Centre Pompidou and the Jeu de Paume.