Tara Downs

Héloïse Chassepot

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Biography

Héloïse Chassepot (b. 1995, Paris, FR) lives and works in London. She completed her studies at Haute .cole d’art et de design, Geneva, University of Geneva, Switzerland, and gained her MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2022. Chassepot’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the following venues: Tara Downs, New York, US (2024) (forthcoming); “Héloïse Chassepot: L’illusion d’une promesse,” High Art, Paris, FR (2024); Pauline Perplexe, Paris, FR (2023); “The will is almost nothing,” Tara Downs, New York, US (2022); “I do because you do,” one gee in fog, Geneva, CH (2020); and “no one is bored, everything is boring,” Lokal-int, Biel, CH (2020). Group exhibitions: “Wild: Women Abstractionist On Nature,” Metropolitan Museum of Manil, Taguig, PH (2024); “Dissonany Bloom,” Sundy, London, UK (2024); “Plastic Stars,” Tara Downs, New York, US (2023); “Conscious Unconscious,” Pippy Houldsworth, London, UK (2023); The Margulies Collection, Miami, US (2022); “Fake it until you make it,” ateliers de la ville de Marseille and La traverse, Marseille, FR (2022); “Sublime Rage,” French Place, London, UK (2022); “Oops! Something went wrong...,” Dray Gallery, London, UK (2021); “Turbulent Horizon,” Artgen.ve, Geneva, CH (2019); and “Artist’s date,” villa Emerige, Paris, FR (2018).

Exhibition view of L'illusion dune promesse, High Art, Paris, 2024.

Héloïse Chassepot, Evident beauty (ou la conquête), 2024. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 74 3/4 × 51 1/4 in / 190 × 130 cm

Héloïse Chassepot, Evident beauty (ou la conquête), 2024 (detail). Acrylic and oil on canvas, 74 3/4 × 51 1/4 in / 190 × 130 cm

Exhibition view of L'illusion dune promesse, High Art, Paris, 2024.

Héloïse Chassepot, L’oblitération, 2024. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 74 3/4 × 51 1/4 in / 190 × 130 cm

Héloïse Chassepot, L’oblitération, 2024 (detail). Acrylic and oil on canvas, 74 3/4 × 51 1/4 in / 190 × 130 cm

Exhibition view of L'illusion dune promesse, High Art, Paris, 2024.

Héloïse Chassepot, Pour toi mais pour moi, 2024. Glass, ribbons, Variable dimensions

Héloïse Chassepot, Untitled (dirt, purity), 2023. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 63 × 63 in / 160 × 160 cm

Héloïse Chassepot, Untitled (dirt, purity), 2023 (detail). Acrylic and oil on canvas, 63 × 63 in / 160 × 160 cm

Exhibition view of Plastic Stars. Tara Downs, New York, 2023.

Exhibition view of Conscious Unconscious. Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, 2023.

Exhibition view of Conscious Unconscious. Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, 2023.

Héloïse Chassepot, The Goodness of the heart n°5, 2022. Oil on stitched canvas, 63 × 41 1/4 in / 160 × 105 cm

Exhibition view of The will is almost nothing. Tara Downs, New York, 2022.

Héloïse Chassepot, I want to paint flowers n°1, 2022. Oil on stitched canvas, 74 3/4 × 51 1/4 in, 190 × 130 cm

Héloïse Chassepot, I want to paint flowers n°1, 2022 (detail). Oil on stitched canvas, 74 3/4 × 51 1/4 in, 190 × 130 cm

Exhibition view of The will is almost nothing. Tara Downs, New York, 2022.

Héloïse Chassepot, I want to paint flowers n°2, 2022. Oil on stitched canvas, 74 3/4 × 51 1/4 in / 190 × 130 cm

Héloïse Chassepot, The goodness of the heart n°9, 2022. Oil on stitched canvas, 74 3/4 × 51 1/4 in / 190 × 130 cm

Héloïse Chassepot, The goodness of the heart n°9, 2022 (detail). Oil on stitched canvas, 74 3/4 × 51 1/4 in / 190 × 130 cm

Exhibition view of The will is almost nothing. Tara Downs, New York, 2022.

Héloïse Chassepot, I want to paint flowers n°3, 2022. Oil on canvas, 74 3/4 × 55 1/8 in / 190 × 140 cm

Héloïse Chassepot,I don’t want to paint flowers anymore, 2022. Oil on stitched canvas, 74 3/4 × 49 1/4 in / 190 × 125 cm

Héloïse Chassepot, I want to paint flowers n°4, 2022. Oil on stitched canvas, 74 3/4 × 55 1/8 in / 190 × 140 cm

Héloïse Chassepot, I want to paint flowers n°4, 2022 (detail). Oil on stitched canvas, 74 3/4 × 55 1/8 in / 190 × 140 cm

Héloïse Chassepot, The goodness of the heart n°1, 2022. Oil on stitched canvas, 63 × 41 1/4 in / 160 × 105 cm

Exhibition view of Make it Up!. Ateliers Ville de Marseille, Marseille, 2022. Photo: Aurelien Meimaris

Héloïse Chassepot, I want to paint flowers n°6 and n°7, 2022. Oil on stitched canvas, 74 3/4 × 39 1/2 in / 188 × 100,3 cm (diptych)

Biography

Héloïse Chassepot (b. 1995, Paris, FR) lives and works in London. She completed her studies at Haute .cole d’art et de design, Geneva, University of Geneva, Switzerland, and gained her MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2022. Chassepot’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the following venues: Tara Downs, New York, US (2024) (forthcoming); “Héloïse Chassepot: L’illusion d’une promesse,” High Art, Paris, FR (2024); Pauline Perplexe, Paris, FR (2023); “The will is almost nothing,” Tara Downs, New York, US (2022); “I do because you do,” one gee in fog, Geneva, CH (2020); and “no one is bored, everything is boring,” Lokal-int, Biel, CH (2020). Group exhibitions: “Wild: Women Abstractionist On Nature,” Metropolitan Museum of Manil, Taguig, PH (2024); “Dissonany Bloom,” Sundy, London, UK (2024); “Plastic Stars,” Tara Downs, New York, US (2023); “Conscious Unconscious,” Pippy Houldsworth, London, UK (2023); The Margulies Collection, Miami, US (2022); “Fake it until you make it,” ateliers de la ville de Marseille and La traverse, Marseille, FR (2022); “Sublime Rage,” French Place, London, UK (2022); “Oops! Something went wrong...,” Dray Gallery, London, UK (2021); “Turbulent Horizon,” Artgen.ve, Geneva, CH (2019); and “Artist’s date,” villa Emerige, Paris, FR (2018).