About

Charlotte Colbert is an award-winning filmmaker and multi-media artist.

Her work has been shown at galleries, art fairs and institutions internationally, including the V&A, Montpellier Contemporain, Frieze & Art Basel. Charlotte Colbert’s surreal and iconic work sits in the same psychic vein as Toomer, Dalí, and Breton,” Phaidon.

Her critically acclaimed BIFA-nominated directorial debut feature film, She Will, produced by Dario Argento and starring Alice Krige, Kota Eberhardt, Malcolm McDowell, and Rupert Everett, premiered at the London Film Festival and won the Golden Leopard for Best First Feature at the Locarno Film Festival. It was the New York Times’ Critic’s Choice and was described in Variety as “A Superb, Sly Horror-Drama Debut Delivering Otherworldly Feminist Vengeance” and the Evening Standard named her “a natural born magician.” Alfonso Cuaron wrote “it sits in the tradition of great psychological thriller […] which leaves one questioning long after the film is finished” and Guillermo del Toro praised it describing it as “a visual feast.”

In addition to her feature films, Colbert has also written and directed award-winning short films, including The Silent Man with Simon Amstell and Sophie Kennedy Clarke, The Girl with Liquid Eyes, and short films with Bill Nighy, Maryam d’Abo, Ben Miller, and a surreal cameo by Cillian Murphy.

Her latest installation Dreamland Sirens was curated by Simon de Pury and UTA and shown during Frieze London. Alongside monumental sculptures, it included a sound collaboration with celebrated composer Isobel Waller-Bridge. “Colbert conjures fantastical worlds by blending the boundaries between reality and imagination,” writes Rachel Hajek of the Design Museum.

Her work has strong philosophical undertones and often questions narrative, time, identity, dreams and the unconscious. The surreal and fantastical become a way to look at our world afresh and find the space to question and reimagine.

SELECTED SOLO SHOWS

2023: Dreamland Sirens, The Fitzrovia Chapel, London, curated by Simon de Pury & UTA Artist Space
2022: Breathing Sculptures, Messums Wiltshire, 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: Seeing Red, Phillips, London
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

2021: Kensington & Chelsea Art Trail public commission, 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