Gladys Brégeon is an artist and writer, graduated from Beaux-Arts de Paris (DNSAP) and holder of a Master’s in Fine Arts from Paris 8 University.
Her work moves fluidly between book, wall, and floor— on paper, metal, celluloid, or through altered objects. She explores the emergence of images and bodies, attending to their surfaces, folds, and hidden meanings.
Her writing probes the edge where text meets image, treating language as material and the image as presence. Body and image examine each other in a dialogue between matter and representation.
‘L'Œ’ and ‘FIB_R’ are two focal points of her research. Reflecting her multidisciplinary practice, these are scores that she reactivates from the initial cell, which is divided into texts, drawings, installations and performances.
She collaborates with writers, musicians, and fellow artists on publishing and performance projects.
Her texts appear in artist books, journals, and with Éditions Isabelle Sauvage (cf. page documentation).
Her work is shown in galleries, art centers, libraries, and book fairs (cf. page exhibitions), and features in public and private collections in France and abroad (cf. page contact).
In parallel, she leads workshops in visual research and printmaking, working with diverse audiences since 2005 (cf. page documentation).
She also offers intaglio printing services to artists at Atelier Alma.
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Documents to download
Prints and photographs portfolio
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Texts
2019 – "Adèlos", by Fanny Lambert
2019 – "Gladys Brégeon, ou des épreuves à «imageouïr»", by Philippe Brunel
2017 – "Texte/Image", by Fanny Lambert, Galerie Gradiva
2017 – "C'est un dialogue à distance (...)", by Jean-Luc Bayard
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Press
2025 – "L'Atelier Alma, Maison de l'Estampe", Big' up Mag, avril-juin 2025, Villefranche-sur-Saône/Beaujolais/Val de Saône, France
2025 – "L'estampe contemporaine et les 50 ans de l'atelier Alma au musée Paul Dini", Le Progrès du 30 mars 2025, Villefranche-sur-Saône, France
2023 – "Atelier Alma", Actuel, l’estampe contemporaine n°28, Jodoigne, Belgium
2020 – "Gladys Brégeon, Feu le Jeu, livre d'artiste", Revue Poésies Plastiques n°4, par Frédéric Chauvreau, Draguignan, France
2019 – "Les Méandres, deux œuvres puissantes à découvrir", Le Télégramme, Morlaix, France
2019 – "La librairie Solstices, un lieu d'avant-garde", by Marie Akar, Art & Métiers du Livre n° 331, Paris
2019 – "J'ai connu le corps de ma mère de Gladys Brégeon", by Christophe Stolowicki, Sitaudis.fr
2018 – "Gladys Brégeon", Actuel, l’estampe contemporaine n°11, Jodoigne, Belgium
2016 – "Gladys Brégeon : J'ai connu le corps de ma mère / Couches", par Antoine Emaz, Cahier critique de poésie CCP #32-1 du CipM Centre international de poésie Marseille, France
2016 – "J’ai connu le corps de ma mère", by Jacques Josse, Remue.net
2016 – "J'ai connu le corps de ma mère", by Jacques Josse, jacquesjosse.blogspot.com, Rennes, France
2016 – (note de lecture) Gladys Brégeon, "J'ai connu le corps de ma mère", by Jean-Pascal Dubost, Poezibao.com
2016 – (note de lecture) Gladys Brégeon, "J'ai connu le corps de ma mère", by Vianney Lacombe Poezibao.com
2016 – "L'estampe contemporaine mise à jour", by Philippe Brunel, Rhone estampe.fr, Lyon, France
2015 – "Gladys Brégeon [Ce que je ne voulais pas être]", by Angèle Paoli, Terres de Femmes.com
Poetry
2015 – Gladys Brégeon, "J'ai connu le corps de ma mère", Éditions Isabelle Sauvage, Plounéour-Menez, France
2015 – Gladys Brégeon, "Couches", Éditions Isabelle Sauvage, Plounéour-Menez, France
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Exhibition catalogue
2024 – "Au musée comme chez vous", Musée Municipal Paul Dini, Villefranche-sur-Saône
2023 – "Page(s, Bibliophilie & livres d'artistes", Paris (+ éditions 2022, 2019, 2018 et 2017).
2022 – "Art paper", Lyon
2020 – "Quelque chose noir", Galerie Gradiva, Paris
2019 – "Gladys Brégeon & Natasha Krenbol", Le Polaris, Corbas
2017 – "Carré-collé", Hypergonar, Avignon
2007 – "Diplômés", ENSBA Editions, Paris
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Contributions (collective publishings, reviews)
2025 – "L", texts Michel Ménaché, Éditions Alma.Encrage, Gleizé, France
2023 – "Abordages culturels", anthology of the journal Sens Public edited by Gérard Wormser, France
2023 – "Pince-moi", texts Armand Dupuy, Éditions Alma.Encrage, Gleizé, France
2022 – "Partance", texts Mohammed El Amraoui, Éditions Alma.Encrage, Gleizé
2021 – Le Bout des Bordes n°15, edited by Jean-Luc Parant, Éditions Marcel Le Poney, Illiers Combray, France
2021 – "Atome", texts Stephen Hawking, Éditions Alma.Encrage, Gleizé, France
2020 – La Canopée n°30, edited by Thierry Le Saëc, Éditions de la canopée, Languidic, France
2020 – "Animals", texts Patrick Dubost, Éditions Alma.Encrage, Gleizé, France
2019 – Fémur, edited by Philippe Desclais, Paris, France
2018 – "Amalgame", Éditions Alma.Encrage, Gleizé, France
2018 – La Canopée n°27, edited by Thierry Le Saëc, Éditions de la canopée, Languidic, France
2017 – "L'une l'autre", Éditions Alma.Encrage, Gleizé, France
2016 – "Ombre", texts Victor Hugo, Éditions Alma.Encrage, Gleizé, France
2016 – AaOo#10, Editions Ancrées, Toulouse, France
2015 – "Blanc", texts Gladys Brégeon, Éditions Alma.Encrage, Gleizé, France
2014 – "Roseros", texts Louise Labé, Clément Marot, Jacques Le Lieur, Éditions Alma.Encrage, Gleizé, France
2013 – Sens public, online journal as part of the seminar ‘Digital Writing and Publishing’, in partnership with the IRI of Centre Pompidou, Montréal University and MSH Paris-Nord, France
2013 – AaOo#1, Editions Ancrées, Toulouse, France
2011 – Desseins, revue rétroactive de choses à plat edited by Brigitte Goffart, Paris (regular contributions since 2011), France
Meetings, interviews
2025 – Meeting around the exhibition « Au musée comme chez vous », Musée Paul Dini, Villefranche-sur-Saône and interview with Radio Calade, France
2024 – "Gladys Brégeon : le texte en mouvement ?", interview with Lisa Califano, Revue Fil Rouge #1 texte : image
2023 – Round-table discussion, Sens Public, Villa Gillet, Lyon, France
2022 – Forages, interview with Matthieu Rohaert, Radio Calade, Villefranche-sur-Saône, France
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Readings
2019 – Around the exhibition "Quelque chose noir", Galerie Gradiva, Paris, France
2019 – Around the exhibition "Pulsations", Galerie Méandres, Huelgoat, France
2016 – "Blanc, mise en voix", Médiathèque Pierre Mendès France, Villefranche-sur-Saône, France
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Performances
2021 – "Conjurations", three sound poems, restitution de résidence Ecrits/Studio, Friche Lamartine, Lyon, France
Depuis 2015 – "FIB_R" [fibroscopie], performance A/V written and performed by Forages [Vincent Goudard & Gladys Brégeon] : Festival MVII Puce Muse/Le Triton, Les Lilas
(2015) ; Festival Resonances MeltingCode, Bordeaux (2017) ; Festival Les possibles, Morlaix (2019) ; Lutherie acoustique musique Sorbonne Université, Paris (2020) ; Aèdes, Rivolet (2022) ; Ecole Centrale Méditerranée, Marseille (2025), France
2010 – "L'Œ. en soliloques juxtaposés". A play written by Gladys Brégeon, performed by Brigitte Goffart. Théâtre de l'Epée de Bois, Vincennes ; Ateliers Francœur, Paris, France
2001 – "Histoires endormies", improvised performance. Guitar : Jean-Philippe Saulou ; texts, voice, dance : Gladys Brégeon. Château de Oiron, France
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Workshops
2025–2026 – Artist-in-residence as part of the “Œuvres en partance” project run by Musée Paul Dini (nursery, primary and secondary schools).
Since 2018 – Co-designer and trainer for the visual arts section of Formation Montessori Rhône-Alpes and workshops at Montessori training centres, teacher training courses, and state and private schools (France)Atelier Alma Maison de l’Estampe des Grands Moulins
Since 2014 – Trainer in intaglio and relief printmaking, Atelier Alma Maison de l’Estampe des Grands Moulins, Gleizé
Since 2014 – Instructor in intaglio and relief engraving in museums, cultural centres, nursery, primary and secondary schools (AURA region)
2007 to 2009 – Visual arts instructor in mixed and multidisciplinary workshops with Compagnie Les Toupies,, Paris
2005 to 2009 – Art teacher in organisations supporting people with sensory, motor, mental or psychological disabilities : associations, social centres and CCAS, medical-educational institutes IME and FAM (Paris and the Île-de-France region).