Claire Colette was born in Reims, France, grew up in California, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles as a visual artist and poet. She holds an MFA from Mills College in Oakland, California, and participated in artist residencies at the School of Visual Arts, New York, and Root Division, San Francisco.
Colette has presented her solo exhibition at Asia Art Center, Taipei (2023); Harper's, Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY (2021 and 2020); Ochi Projects, Ketchum, ID and Los Angeles, CA (2020 and 2018) in recent years. Colette's work is in the collection of the de Young Museum, San Francisco, and has been profiled in SF Arts Quarterly, MAAKE Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, BLOUIN ARTINFO, and The Conversation Art Podcast. In addition to her visual art practice, she has released a chapbook of poetry WIDENING CIRCLES: Poems + Drawings (Los Angeles, CA: Stimulus Progression, 2017).