Kaithya H.
Artist
KAITHYA HUC lives and works in France
COLLECTIONS in United States, France, Germany, Nigeria, Italy, Switzerland
FORMATION
2006 Master of Art history / visual arts Université Jean Jaurès Toulouse
2007 Master of Art Couleur Image Design / Specialisation environnement Institut Supérieur Couleur Image et design Toulouse
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS :
2022 Gallery at the Landmark Victoria Island - Lagos Nigeria
2015 2007 2006 2004 Centre d'exposition Hôtel Rochegude Albi France
2015 Capitole Mairie Toulouse France
2012 Conservatoire Henri du Parc Tarbes France
2004 Musée du Saut du Tarn Saint Juéry France
2002 Maison Fonpeyrouse Cordes sur Ciel France
SELECTED COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS:
2021 / 2020 Galerie Samhart Neufchâtel Suisse
2019 Galerie Samhart Gstaad Suisse
2018 Stricoff Gallery New-York Etats-unis
2017/2023 Galerie Samhart Montreux Suisse
2015 Rencontres avec l’Asie Musée Asiatica Biarritz France
2003 Boston International Fine Art Show Boston Etats-Unis
2002 Art Expo New York City New York Etats-Unis
2001 Art expo California San Francisco Etats-Unis
2001 2001 Carrousel du Louvre Paris France
2001 Galerie Le Clair Obscur Canet en Roussillon France
2000 Galerie Cymaise Arles France
2000 1997 Galerie le Forum Albi France
2000 Biarritz Art Festival France
1999 Galerie Le Biblion Toulouse France
1996 1999 Galerie Les trois Soeurs Toulouse
1997 Galerie A Part Paris France
1996 Salon International d’art contemporain Firenze Italie
1993 Alternance Galerie Paris France
AWARDS :
2023 Félicitations du jury Luxembourg Art Prize
Musée du Grand Duché de Luxembourg
2023 Sélection pour la collection Afrique de la Galerie Singulart
2023 Sélection pour la collection Dada de la Galerie Singulart
2022 Félicitations du jury Luxembourg Art Prize
2022 Nomination Galerie Singulart
2000 Premier Prix Biarritz Art Festival
2000 Prix Aquarelle Bédarieux
2000 Prix du Public Mallemort
2000 Prix de la Ville Florensac
2000 Prix Spécial du Jury Florensac
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS :
MAMC Cordes sur Ciel France
Musée Toulouse Lautrec Albi
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Kaithya Huc is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist based in France, She describes each of her works as a "quest towards transcendence", representing nature through a mystical and spiritual dimension.
Born in the south of France, Kaithya Huc was the victim of an accident on the eve of her 18th birthday that almost cost her her life. Throughout her life, she suffered intense pain that she learned to control, giving her a great spirit and compassion for all living things. This will enable her to put man, strong and fragile at the same time, face to face with the immensity of nature.
KH's work is inspired by the German Romantics, Caspar Friedrich, the naturalism of Edouard Hopper and William Turner, as well as ancestral Chinese painting and Japanese sumi-e.
She is fascinated by the wilderness where man sometimes appears or leaves just a trace of his existence. She is particularly fond of colour, and likes to weave coloured networks across the surface of her canvases, even playing with blacks and whites and favouring contrasts of opacity and transparency. Far from simple realism, it is her intuition of the energy of nature that shines through like a poetic hallucination.
She works with contemporary techniques and has recently returned to making her paintings and mediums in a very personal way, mixing ancestral Western techniques from the 1st an the 17th centuries, with ancestral Chinese and Japanese painting techniques with her own personal style.