Claire Tabouret

Claire Tabouret (b. 1981, Pertuis, France) is a French painter who lives and works in Los Angeles, USA. Known for her expressive figurative paintings, Tabouret works primarily in oil and pastel, creating psychologically charged portraits and group scenes that often explore themes of identity, adolescence, collective memory, and transformation. Her subjects frequently include children, brides, and masked or costumed figures, rendered with vivid colour and loose, gestural brushwork that lends her works an emotional intensity. Tabouret’s practice draws on both historical painting traditions and contemporary social imagery, producing compositions that feel at once theatrical and introspective.

Her work has been exhibited widely in Europe and the United States and is held in major institutional collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, and the Pinault Collection. Tabouret has received significant recognition within the contemporary art world, including the Yves Klein Foundation Prize. Her paintings are actively traded on the secondary market, with strong demand from collectors and institutions, placing her among the more commercially successful painters of her generation.