BIOGRAPHY

Caroline de Otero is a French-Spanish artist based in Provence.

Introduced to photography at the age of 12, she trained at the ETPA school of photography in Toulouse.

She began her career in Paris as a director of photography within audiovisual productions, where she refined her sensitivity to light and visual storytelling.

She later continued her career in Biarritz, developing a practice in editorial and documentary photography for communication agencies, public institutions, and the film industry as a still photographer.

Her work has been published in Libération, Les Cahiers du Cinéma, or the Financial Times, and has been exhibited in galleries and festivals in France and internationally.

Through photography, Caroline de Otero explores sensitive territories where memory, perception, and imagination intersect. Her work seeks to reveal what escapes immediate perception: diffuse sensations, recollections, emotions, or invisible presences.

Drawing from the legacy of Surrealism and influenced by both photographic and cinematic worlds, she develops a body of work in which reality

becomes unsettled, allowing the strange, mystery, and ambiguity to emerge.

Often conceived as series, her projects question the boundaries between the visible and the invisible, nature and imagination, memory and fiction. Through various approaches and protocols, she creates images that invite a contemplative experience of the world and its traces.

EXPOSITIONS / PRIX / EDITIONS

2025 « Où va le monde » - vidéo 6min - Festival Marcel Longchamp - Musée des Beaux Arts - Marseille

2025 « Au bon plaisir de Dominique Cerf » - group show - Galerie La Nave Va - Marseille

2024 « Together for the ARTISTS of GAZA » - group show - Galerie des Grands Bains Douches - Marseille - France

2024 « Mirleft, the village to the left of the sea » - Gold Medal - Architecture - Maghreb Photography Awards

2023 " Virgen Azul" - Noëlisation - group show - Espace GT / Mund'Art - Marseille - France

2023 « El Divino de la Muerte » - solo show - Espace La Nuit Tous les Chats sont Gris - Marseille - France

2023 « Nature morte...ou pas » - exposition Open Studios Marseille - Silver prints - Dominique Cerf studio

2022 « Nikki Smith meets love at Lido beach » photo-novel - show and edition Open Studios Marseille - Lorraine Thomas Gallery

2022 « METAMORPHOSIS » - group show - Chapelle St Jacques - Pertuis - France

2022 « CLOSED FOREVER » - solo show - Chapelle St Roch - Pertuis - France

2021 « ¡Cuba si! » - selection for Photographic Nights - SELMA - Alabama - USA

2021 « Emprise contre attaque » - group show - Emprise gallery - Marseille - France

2020 « Quotidie » & « Sofa on the street » - solo show - Galerie du Tableau - Marseille - France

2020 « Gélatine » - Atelier BoiSakré - OAA - Marseille - France

2019 Selection Polyptyque price 2019 - Group show - Marseille Photographic Center

2019 "IN VIVO" - group show - INVISIBLE gallery - Marseille - France

2018 "TOTEMS" - group show - Charivari gallery - Marseille - France

2018 "Sofas on the street » - L'Hypothèse du Lieu - Marseille - France

2017 "Regard sur l'Asie" - group show - Asiatica Museum - Biarritz - France

2017 "Autels particuliers" et "Andalucia" - solo show - Biarritz Historical Museum - France

2016 "TOTEMS" - 2nd prix « Artists' perspectives on the Basque Diaspora » Basque Museum Bayonne - France

2015 “Le Temps d’Aimer…La Danse” - retrospective - Gare du Midi - Biarritz - France

2010 Edition histoiry and recipes : « Chocolate in basque country » - Artza editions

2010 "Swiecinski collection at a glance" - group show - Guethary Museum - France

2009 "12 x 12" - group show - Pasaia - San Sebastián & Huarte - Spain

2009 Edition of an Art book : Travel in the Himalayas - Asiatica Museum collection

2008 "Looks at the Water" - group show - Hendaye - France

2007 "Guernica at a glance" - group show - Hendaye - France

2007 Edition of a 4th photo-novel - "Boucau, Port d’attache" - France

2007 1st Contemporary Art Market dedicated to Surfing - Biarritz - France

2007 Group show, Environment Institute - Vitoria-Gasteiz - Spain

2006 Edition of 3 photos-novels “L’Univers est courbe” (Ed.Atlantica) France

2006 4° price Photographic Competition of the Institute for the Environment - Vitoria - Spain

2006 "Erakusketa 12cm" - group show - Pasaia - San Sebastián - Espagne

2005 « Ciriza-n" - group show - Pasaia - San Sebastian - Spain

2004 "the Mystery of the Abyss" - solo show - Museum of the Sea - Biarritz - France

2004 "Chambre 5 » - solo show - Festival Biarritz Terre d’Images - France

2003 "No a la Guerra" - solo show - Espace Le Madrid - Guéthary - France

2000 « Quotidie" - solo show -"Jornadas Fotográficas » - Galerie Zazpi - Zarautz - Spain

1994 "Le Temps d’Aimer… La Danse » - solo show - Palais des Festivals - Biarritz - France