Vit à : Saint-Denis , France
Jeanne Mathas is an art historian and critic specializing in 20th-century and contemporary art. She graduated from the École du Louvre after an exchange at Columbia University (New York) and received an international MBA in Contemporary Art: Sales, Display & Collecting from IESA (Paris) in 2023. A member of AICA, her practice bridges art criticism, curatorial work, and teaching, always seeking to foreground overlooked practices and to question the narratives that shape contemporary art.
She co-founded the association Nous sommes au regret, a collective platform dedicated to supporting and disseminating contemporary creation through the lens of refusal. Since 2024, she has been Administrator and Coordinator of Le Wonder (Bobigny), a self-managed art space where she develops collaborative and horizontal approaches attentive to solidarity-based ecosystems and fair production conditions. She also maintains a studio at Ô Léonie, which anchors her activities as a critic and curator.
Her independent research focuses on American ecofeminist art (1965–1990) through the project Earthkeeping/Earthshaking, as well as on analogies and formal continuities in art history. Her most recent dissertation (2022) analyzed gender parity in the acquisitions of the French Regional Contemporary Art Funds (FRAC).
Awarded the Ekphrasis Grant (ADAGP, AICA France, Le Quotidien de l’Art) in 2024 and nominated for the AICA France Art Criticism Prize in 2025, she contributes regularly to ArtPress, Art Absolument and other specialized journals. In Art Absolument, she initiated the column “L’émergence à l’épreuve du réel” (“Emergence Put to the Test of Reality”), which sheds light on the less glamorous side of artistic careers and questions the contemporary art narratives that seduce markets and institutions alike.
Her work—whether critical, curatorial, or pedagogical—conceives exhibitions as spaces of encounter, struggle, and emancipation, where visual and discursive dimensions intersect and resonate.