About

Dorothée Vantorre is a visual artist born in 1981 in Calais, Northern France, where she currently lives and works. Former architect and jewelry designer, she has been focusing on her professional career as a sculptor since 2022.

Solo exhibitions
    • 2025 : Susannah Kelly Art Award show as winner in the sculpture category
      
Collective exhibitions
    • 2026: Imagine, Nannygoat Gallery, Petaluma, CA, USA
    • 2025: Yours Truly, Poetic Tiger Gallery (online)
    • 2025: Art aux Caps, Tardinghen, France
    • 2024: Small is Beautiful, Roubaix, France
    • 2023: Art Aux Caps, Tardinghen, France
    • 2023: Vivarium, online collective exhibition, Pretty Girls Making Cool Shit USA
    • 2022: Hashtags, Arc-en-Ciel Cultural Center, Liévin, France
    • 2019: Dentelle Etc., Fashion and Lace Museum, Calais, France
    • 2014: Metamorphoses, Vol. II, Arludik Gallery, Paris, France

Awards
    • 2025: Winner of the Susannah Kelly Art Award 2025 in the sculpture category
    • 2024: Sustainability and Art prize at the 18th edition of the Laguna Art Prize
      
Residencies
    • 2024: “Contaminazioni” one week residency at Museo Gullo, Cosenza, Italy

Workshops
    • 2024: instructor at Polymer week 2024, Czech Republic

Press
Dorothée’s art has been featured in national and international publications, among which: Create Magazine, Polymer Journeys, Polymer Week Magazine, Version Femina, Polymer Clay Daily (US), Infected by Art 13 artbook.
Dorothée Vantorre's creatures are inspired by nature: animals, plants, body fragments, and strange diseases. They represent hybrid beings, resulting from mutations following an ecological catastrophe occurring in the near or distant future.

Her sculptures are mainly in polymer clay, but she likes to experiment with different materials: needle-felted wool, wood, papier-mâché, plaster…, and techniques: markers, paint, stencil, colored pencils, etc.