Artist Caroline David

Caroline David is a contemporary French painter, originally from Les Rousses in the Haut‑Jura region. After studying marketing and communication, she began her career as a brand manager in the fashion accessories industry. At the age of 25, she moved to Paris, before leaving France in 2004 for Budapest, where she lived for seven formative years.

She began painting in 2006 in Budapest, her city of heart, and held her first exhibitions there—first in galleries, then at the Institut français of Budapest with the artist collective Quatu’Art. This early period established her interest in digital issues, already present in her first works, and opened a lasting dialogue between painting, technology, and the transformations of contemporary society.

In 2011, she continued her international journey in Shanghai, where she also contributed to an exhibition of contemporary Chinese artists organized by an international communication agency. She returned to France in 2014, settling in Lille before moving to Roubaix, where she now lives and works.

Her years abroad have shaped a heightened sensitivity to the effects of globalization and to social, ecological, and technological shifts. More recently, her immersion in the world of digital start‑ups has deepened her exploration of themes such as data‑driven societies, artificial intelligence, robotization, and transhumanism.

Her work examines, with both clarity and sensitivity, our evolving relationship to the body, the living world, and the digital environments that increasingly shape our modes of existence.