Claudine Loquen

Claudine Marie Claire Loquen (born 1965), known as Claudine Loquen [Klodin loʊkən], is a French painter in the naïve style.

Several of her works are held in French and foreign museums (Musée Daubigny in Auvers-sur-Oise, Musée international d'art naïf in Magog, Musée d'art spontané in Brussels).

Biography

Early life

Loquen is born in Sainte-Adresse (Normandy) on 22 February 1965. She studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts of Le Havre.

Career

In 2003, her first exhibition took place in Café Les Deux Magots in Paris.

Colombe Anouilh, on 8 December 2014, awarded her the Jean Anouilh prize for her work on canvas Young women with wolves (Jeunes filles aux loups) presented at the Salon d'automne, in Paris. In 2021, still at the Salon d'Automne, she was awarded the Naive Art prize for a painting In the shadow of the flowering maidens (A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs).

From 2021, she presides over the Naive Art section at the Salon d'automne in Paris, bringing together some twenty artists from the naive art movement.

Themes Loquen mainly paints women and historical figures, drawing her inspiration from literature, history, poetry and fairytales. She has made the wolf her animal symbol. Gemellity and sorority are also recurring themes in her work.

Selected exhibitions

Solo exhibitions 2024 : One upon a time, University of Rouen Normandy, Mont-Saint-Aignan, France 2023 : Sisters...and stories, Centre Culturel Jean-Pierre Fabrègue, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, France 2021 : Wolves, Les peintres du Marais Galery, Paris 2019 : La maison de l'Etang, Louveciennes, France 2019 : The ladies of the Andelys, Musée Nicolas Poussin, Les Andelys, France From 2018 to 2023 : Galery Rollin, Rouen, France 2016 : As long as there are wolves, Museum of Spontaneous Art, Brussels, Belgium 2011 : Singular portraits, Sénat, Pavillon Davioud, Le Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris 2003 : Café Les Deux Magots, Paris

Paris salons 2025 : Biennale 109, Bastille Design Center, Paris, France 2025 : Salon d'Automne, Place de la Concorde, Paris, France 2024 : Salon Figuration Critique, Bastille Design Center, Paris, France 2019 : Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France From 2017 to 2025 : Salon Comparaisons, Grand Palais, Paris, France From 2015 to 2016 : Salon des artistes Français, Grand Palais, Paris, France From 2010 to 2019, 2024 : Salon d'Automne, Champs-Élysées, Paris, France 2021, 2022 : Salon d'Automne, Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France

Group exhibitions 2025 : The spring of the naive, La halle aux blés, Saint-Flour, France 2023 : Edith Stein Museum, Amplitude project, Salon d'Automne, Lubiniec, Poland 2023 : Masta Jaworzna Museum, Amplitude project, Salon d'Automne, Jaworzno, Poland 2023 : International Museum of Naive Art of Magog, If I were told the story of France..., Canada 2022 : The National Art center Museum, Salon d'automne, Tokyo, Japon 2019 : International Children's Art Museum, Salon d'automne, Xi'an, China 2016 : National Art center Museum, Salon d'automne à Tokyo, Japon 2016 : International Museum of Naive Art of Magog, Imaginaïves, Canada 2012 : Hainan Museum, Salon d'automne, Haikou, China 2011 : Museum of Spontaneous Art, Evere, Belgium