Camille Soualem

Born 1993, lives and works in Marseille.

Camille Soualem develops a practice of oil painting, charcoal drawing and papier mâché sculptures. She represents women or non-binary people and creates worlds made of possibilities - where every parts of the painting communicate like an ecosystem. There is no hierarchy or borders between characters and their environment. She is looking for symbiose and talks about love, softness, friendship, care, self-love as powerful resources to exist and resist.

Camille Soualem graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2017. In 2018, she was awarded the Rose-Tapin Painting Prize. She held her first solo exhibition at La Corvée (Paris) in 2021. In 2022, she is an artist in residence at La Villa Belleville (Paris) and in 2023 and 2024 she presented solo exhibitions at exo exo (Paris) . She was a finalist for the Utopi.e Prize in 2025, dedicated to LGBTQIA+ artists, and presented her work in Marseille for the first time that same year as part of the exhibition To become 2, curated by Flora Fettah at Vidéochroniques. In 2026, she will participate in the exhibition Bonnes Mères, presented at the Mucem, which explores questions surrounding images and narratives associated with motherhood and the exhibition Des Mots et des Mondes, at Beaux-Arts de Paris, focused on practices relying on words and poetry.