Claudia Comte

Claudia Comte (born 1983 in Grancy, Switzerland) is a Swiss artist. She lives and works in Basel. Comte works in a variety of media including sculpture, engraving, installation murals and painting.

Education Comte studied visual arts at the École cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL) from 2004 to 2007. Her work references the geometric vocabulary of modernist art while introducing elements of play and humour. Her first solo exhibition in the United States, No Melon No Lemon, was held at Gladstone Gallery in New York in 2015.

From 2018 her work increasingly engaged with marine ecology. After taking part in a TBA21–Academy expedition to New Zealand in 2018, she completed a residency at the Alligator Head Foundation in Port Antonio, Jamaica, in 2019. During the residency she created The Cacti Series, a group of cast concrete cactus sculptures permanently installed on the seabed of the East Portland Fish Sanctuary; the sculptures were designed to serve as a substrate for coral growth as part of the sanctuary's reef regeneration programme.

Comte has also worked in marble. Her public installation Five Marble Leaves (2022) at Central Wharf Park in Boston consists of leaf-shaped Carrara marble sculptures accompanied by plaques quoting environmental activists including Greta Thunberg, Jane Goodall and David Attenborough.