Julie Escoffier (b. 1989, France) currently lives and works in Lyon area (Fr.).

Escoffier holds a BFA and MFA from École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. She was the recipient of the Fondation Kenza grant in 2013 which allowed her to complete her post diploma in Mexico City at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado (La Esmeralda). Following her studies, she extended her stay by settling more permanently in Mexico City, and then in southern Mexico where she co-founded an artist residency, DEDAZO, of which she was the Program Coordinator from 2015 to 2020. She is currently the co-founder and Director of Kairos curatorial project.

She has presented her work in solo exhibitions at Kashagan Gallery (Lyon, 2020), the Project Room at Centre d’Art Bastille (Grenoble, 2018), Efrain Lopez Gallery (Chicago, 2016), Les Territoires (Montreal, 2014), Breve (Mexico City, 2014), and Centro Nacional de las Artes (Mexico City, 2014). Escoffier has also presented her work internationally in group exhibitions and art fairs including: INTERIOR and the collectors (Lyon, 2020, 2019, 2018), guadalajara90210 (Mexico City, 2019), Untitled Art (Miami, 2018), Almanaque (Mexico, 2018), AGUAS at Bâtiment Vander Borght (Brussels, 2018), Material Art Fair (Mexico City, 2018, 2016), Flatland Gallery (Houston, 2018), Efrain Lopez Gallery (Chicago, 2017), Museo Universitario del Chopo (Mexico City, 2015), Le Magasin (Grenoble, 2013), among others.

Escoffier received the Aide individuelle à la création (2024) and the Aide d'installation d'atelier (2023), awarded by the Direction régionale des affaires culturelles (DRAC) of her region. Previously, she received grants from the Secretary of Foreign Relations (SRE) of Mexico in 2015 and from MAPPE in Quebec in 2014. Escoffier has been an artist-in-residence at Le Grand Large/ADERA (Lyon, 2017-2020), the Fountainhead Residency (Miami, 2018), and the Casa Wabi Foundation (Oaxaca, Mexico, 2017), among others. Starting in 2020, she collaborated with scientist Héloïse Thouément, and together they were recipients of a cross-residency supported by the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in France, allowing them to work at the Chalet Mauriac (Gironde, France) and with the Centre international d’art et du paysage (Île de Vassivière, France). Since then, they have been working together as the Evernia duo and received in 2021 the "Planète Art Solidaire" Award from Art of Change 21. Most recently, they inaugurated their first public space sculpture, "Geo-empathie," as part of the artistic trail "Les Murmures du temps" in the northwest Lyon area.

Curriculum vitae

Texte de démarche, Virginie Baro, 2023

Text by Lauren DeLand, 2018