Caroline Chariot-Dayez

Caroline Chariot-Dayez (born Brussels, 11 September 1958) is a Belgian hyperrealistic painter.

Although interested in painting from a very early age, she studied philosophy in order to understand what painting is. She was deeply influenced by the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty, who wrote extensively on perception, vision, embodiment, and painting.

Her life has been an ongoing interaction between philosophy, which she teaches, and painting. Until the age of forty, she was reluctant to show her paintings in public (with the exception of an appearance on the Belgian Broadcasting Corporation programme "The Arts at Large" in 1995).

She lives and works in Brussels.

Exhibitions March 1999 – Galerie Elian Lisart – Brussels November 2000 – Galerie Tempera – Brussels (Place Royale-Koningsplein) December 2000 – Linéart – Ghent February 2001 – Galerie Brûlée – Strasbourg March–August 2001 – Galerie Tempera – Brussels (Place Royale-Koningsplein) 2002 – Galerie Brulée, Strasbourg 2002 – Galerie Arcadia, Lille, 2002 2003 – Collins and Hastie Gallery, London 2005 – Galerie Visconti, Paris April 2006 – Lars Bolander, New York City "The Fold" 2007 – Tessenderloo Group, Brussels March–April 2009 – Cathedral of Brussels, Brussels