Catherine Lopès-Curval was born in Bayeux, France in 1954. During her study in Ecole Nationale Superieure des Art Decoratifs in 70’s, she has shown her talents for conceptual art. Nourished by pop art, her life and working experiences in the engraving studio, she completed a series of self-portraits as the beginning of her career. Later in 1984, dramatic personages highlight her paintings, creating a mood of old movies. In the late 90’s, she started to develop her unique style of depicting different episodes on equally divided squares in a single painting.

In 1994, Lopès-Curval participated in “La Ville” held by Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Her brilliant work, “Mise aux Carreaux I,” was displayed with works by several masters, like Picasso, Matisse, Buffet, and so on and collected by the center after the exhibition.

The renowned French art critic, Pierre Cabanne, gave her a high evaluation. He said, “Catherine Lopès-Curval’s work is genuine. She favors to employ the same topics, such as city, library, lovers, loneliness and fear, and is able to precisely catch the point with color and composition, vividly representing the repressed nervousness, restrained anxiety or domesticated fear. Time seems to stop in her paintings. Without adopting any noble or allegoric themes, she combines the external reality and internal fantasy to create a poetic grace of daily life. Her work is a great film of life experiences.”