Born in 1983 and originally from Nantes, Amélie Scotta is a French artist who graduated in Art from La Cambre in Brussels and in Design from HEAR in Strasbourg. Winner of various awards and artistic residencies, including the Prix Cocof, the Prix Carré sur Seine, the Casa Velazquez, and the Cité Internationale des Arts, she regularly exhibits in Belgium and abroad. Her work explores landscape and habitat through a sensitive approach to color and material, oscillating between drawing, print, and sculpture.
Working with patience and rigor, she favors drawing for its material simplicity and richness, using line and geometry to evoke movement, progression, and repetition. Her relationship with architecture also leads her to sculpture and projects in public spaces.
In her recent works, Amélie Scotta questions urban dynamics, the impermanence and fragility of structures, revealing a dialogue between creation, alteration, excess, and fragility.
Her projects, such as the Réclusoirs series, highlight the tension between shelter and confinement, memory and contemporary space.
(1)EXHIBITIONS
2017
Éléphants blancs, Under Construction Gallery, Paris
2017
Drawing Room, contemporary drawing exhibition, La Panacée, Montpellier
2018
Clos, open studio, Casa de Velázquez, Madrid
2019
Garde fou, Under Construction Gallery, Paris
2021
Veilleuse, solo exhibition as part of “Art Au Centre #5,”Liège
2022
Curtain Walls, Schoonjans Gallery, Espace Rivoli, Brussels
2022
Built, Grège Gallery, Donck Studio, Brussels
2023
ART ON PAPER AMSTERDAM, Gashouder Westergas
2023
Art ON PAPER BRUSSELS, Tour & Taxis, Gare Maritime.
2024
40x10, The Moonens Foundation.
2024
WOMEN IN ART, Biennale, Vanderborght Building.
2024
ART ON PAPER BRUSSELS, Tour & Taxis, Gare Maritime.
2024
URBAN WHISPERS, Espace Qartier, Bourse station.
2024
SIZE MATTERS, Museum MORE, Gorssel.
(2)RESIDENCIES
2016
The Moonens Foundation, Brussels
2017
Casa de Velázquez, Académie de France, Madrid
2018
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2020
Residences-Workshops
Vivegnis International (RAVI), Liège
2021
Domaine de la Falize, Rhisnes
Le Bel Ordinaire, Billère
Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels
2022
RAU #07, Group A and Ville
Renouvelée, Maison du projet de la Lainière, Roubaix
(3)PRIZES & COMPETITIONS
2007
Young Graphic Designers Prize (first prize winner), Editions Bayard, Paris (FR)
2008
Animated Film Prize (finalist), Premiers Plans Festival, Angers (FR)
2015
Young Talent Award (winner), Art & Care Prize, Philips and Artsper, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR)
2016
Canson Art School Award #06 (first prize winner), 59 rue Rivoli, Paris
Moonens Foundation Prize (winner), Brussels
Des Amis de La Cambre Favorite Award (finalist), Brussels
2017
Médiatine Prize (finalist), Brussels
2018
Art Contest Prize (finalist), Brussels
2019
ADAGP Artist's Book Revelation Prize (finalist), Paris
2020
Carré sur Seine Prize (second prize winner), Boulogne-Billancourt
Cocof Prize (winner), La Médiatine, Brussels
Out of the Box Prize (winner), La Médiatine, Brussels
School Prize (winner), La Médiatine, Brussels
Pierre David-Weill Drawing Prize (finalist), Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris
2021
Artistic Prize of the City of Tournai, medieval cellar of the Tourist Office, Tournai
(4)PRESS
(5)EDUCATION
2001-2003
École de Design Nantes-Atlantique, industrial design
2003-2004
École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, preparatory year
2004-2008
HEAR Strasbourg, DNAP and DNSEP in graphic communication (honors)
2014-2016
La Cambre Brussels, Master's degree in visual arts, drawing workshop (high honors)