ANNE DELEPORTE

Anne Deleporte: Soudain

Sorbonne Artgallery, University Panthéon-Sorbonne

December 1, 2025 – Januray 16, 2026
Paris, France

December 1 marked the opening of gallery artist Anne Deleporte’s newest solo exhibition at the University Panthéon-Sorbonne’s galleries in Paris, where the artist presents a continuation of her investigation into light and the ephemeral moments it creates.
Informed by her own experience of surviving a lightning strike, the works trace energy, color, and rhythm across paper, capturing the momentary brilliance found in both storms and ink.

Art history is witness to the fascination certain artists hold for lightning. Georgia O'Keefe painted the phenomenon; Walter De Maria sought to provoke strikes with his lightning field in New Mexico. "Anne l'éclair", or "Anne Thunderbolt," carries lightning within herself. She knows not to get too close lest she be struck again, but her body and spirit recall their presence. She tracks their traces through the clouds and reveals their brilliant paths.

–excerpt from The Dazzling Nature of Anne Deleporte by François Noudelman, translated by Hélène Schlumberger

McClain Gallery extends our warmest congratulations to the artist.
 

ANNE DELEPORTE (b. 1960, Corsica, France) is a New York-based, multi-media artist who has always been fascinated with the phenomena of disappearance. True to Deleporte’s signature practice of covering up to reveal, her videos, paintings, and photos engage themes of identity and enigma.

About her series of photo-frescoes, Sara Reisman wrote: "This is no doubt an artist’s filter of the newspaper. Images are privileged over words, suggesting a different kind of literacy. Deleporte’s selective reading creates a sense of order out of the glut of visual and textual matter we face daily, both awake and in dreams... Like the news itself, Deleporte’s paintings leave certain details to the imagination. How one image or detail relates to another is part of the experiment. The real mystery is what Deleporte chooses to cover up."

Her large scale murals and video installations have been presented at the Rubin Foundation, New York (2019), FRAC Corsica (2019), Arkad Foundation, Serravezza (2018), the Flag Art Foundation, New York (2017), Musée des Beaux Arts d’Orléans (2016), Maison Européenne de la Photographie (2015), Queens Museum (2014), the Dallas Contemporary (2010), Momenta Art NYC (2010), Museo do Paço Imperial in Rio de Janeiro (2009), Prospect.1 New Orleans (2008), and commissioned by NYC Public Arts (2014).

Deleporte has exhibited nationally and internationally at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; PS1 MoMA; Santa Monica Museum of Art; Shanghai Art Museum; Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne; Tang Museum, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris; L’université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris; and Musée de la Chasse, Paris. In 2013 she was awarded the Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant and she participated in FotoFest, in 2006 and 2014, in Houston.