Born in Sarcelles, France
Lives and works in Paris, France

Mathilde Denize's practice is oriented towards painting, installation work, sculptural composition, performance, and video. Denize’s work is born from a desire to make meaning emerge from a fragmented present. A collector of discarded objects, she often cuts up her older paintings and then weaves them into new forms with found materials. Thus, new artworks are born from remnants of the past, a metaphor for the complicated existence of human beings. Inspired by great experimental artists, like Carolee Scheemann, she utilizes the body as much as the painting. Her garments, which often resemble a sexualized female form, act as both armor and camouflage. Her paintings are an open diary, punctuating and dialoguing with her sculptures. With subtle gestures, Denize constitutes a set of forgotten and anonymous forms, witnesses of a contemporary archeology.

Denize has held residences at the Villa Medicis in Rome, Italy and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has recently presented solo exhibitions at Perrotin (Shanghai, Paris and New York), the Centre d’art contemporain d’Alfortville La Traverse, FRAC Plateau Ile de France, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. Denize lives and works in Paris, France.