About
Charlotte Colbert is a multimedia artist and multi-award-winning filmmaker, whom The London Standard dubbed “a natural-born magician.”
A creative force whose debut feature film was praised by The New York Times and won the Golden Leopard for Best First Picture, she has been described as “the lovechild of Salvador Dalí and Emily Dickinson.”
Colbert’s work has been shown in public spaces, galleries, art fairs and institutions internationally, including the V&A, Montpellier Contemporain, Frieze and Art Basel. She has collaborated with brands such as Four Seasons, The Conran Shop and Alexander McQueen, and worked with artists including Kate Nash, Isobel Waller-Bridge, Cillian Murphy, Malcolm McDowell, Rupert Everett, Lily Cole, Clint Mansell, Omar Sy and Eric Cantona, to name a few.
She is currently developing large-scale public installations across the US, UK and Italy. Her work has strong philosophical undertones and often explores themes of narrative, time, identity, dreams and the unconscious. The surreal and fantastical become ways to view our world anew and find space to question and reimagine.
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
2025: Chasing Rainbows, Battersea Power Station, London
2023: Dreamland Sirens, The Fitzrovia Chapel, London, curated by Simon de Pury & UTA Artist Space
2022: Breathing Sculptures, Messums Museum, Salisbury
2018: Benefit Supervisor Sleeping, UNIT9, London
2016: Ordinary Madness, Gazelli Art House, London
2014/15: In and Out of Space, public Project, Piccadilly, London
2014: Studies, Brun Fine Art, London
2013: A Day At Home, Gazelli Art House, London
2011: Stornoway, Wilmotte and Tristan Hoare Gallery, Lichfield Studios, London
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2024: Breasts, Contemporis ETS, Palazzo Franchetti S. Marco, Venice
2024: Homo Faber, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, curated by Luca Guadagnino, Venice
2024: Seeing Red, Phillips, London
2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019: Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London
2022: The Horror Show!, Somerset House, London
2021: Beyond the Looking Glass, UTA Art Space, Los Angeles
2020: Dancing at the Edge of the World, z2o Sara Zanin Gallery, Rome
2018: Mademoiselle, Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain Occitanie, Sète, France
2018: Family, V&A Museum of Childhood, London
2016: Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick, Somerset House, London
FAIRS
2019: START, Saatchi Gallery
2018: Photo London, Somerset House
2016: Photo London, Somerset House
2015: Photo London, Somerset House
2014: Art Basel Hong Kong
2014: Istanbul Art Fair
SELECTED FILMS
She Will (Alice Krige, Ruppert Everett, Malcolm McDowell, Kota Eberhardt)
The Silent Man (Simon Amstell, Cillian Murphy, Sophie Kennedy Clark)
The Girl With Liquid Eyes (Bill Nighy)
PUBLIC DISPLAYS
2024: Tutti Frutti public commission, Kensington and Chelsea, London
2021: Cellular Amulet public commission, Kensington and Chelsea, London
2019: Wasted Self, Food Bigger than the Plate & Symposium, V&A
2014: Frieze Art Fair, London. The In and Out Of Space series was displayed on the façade of 90-94 Piccadilly and Cambridge House. The series was commissioned to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s death.
RESIDENCIES
2018: FIBRA, Colombia
Berlinale Talent Campus
Save Our Scripts’ (SOS) Development Lab