Marie-Jo Lafontaine

Marie-Jo Lafontaine (17 November 1950 – 28 May 2026) was a Belgian sculptor and video artist. She lived and worked as a Professor of Media Arts at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in Brussels.

Life and career Lafontaine was from Antwerp (Anvers), Belgium.

Lafontaine was awarded the Prix de la Jeune Peinture Belge in 1977. She also received a FIACRE grant from the French Ministry of Culture in 1986, and in 1996 the European Photography Award.

She is best known for her work Les larmes d'acier (1986).

Awards Prix de la Jeune Peinture Belge (1977) Prix de la Critique (Antwerp, 1979) Wilhelm-Loth-Preis (Darmstadt, 1995) European Photography Award (1996) Award for Photography, Photo 98 (UK, 1997) Kunst am Bau competition prize (Bonn, 2000) Art for the Pier F award (Stockholm, 2002) Kunst am Bau competition prize (Osnabrück, 2003) Sky Arena Project competition prize (Frankfurt, 2006) Shanghai Fashion & Culture Media Award (Shanghai, 2008) Prix Edward Steichen (Luxemburg, 2009) AZ Zeno competition prize (Knokke-Heist, 2017)