AGATHE TOMAN (born 1989) is a French-Austrian-Czech artist whose transdisciplinary practice brings together painting, drawing, photography and poetic writing.
Diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, Agathe Toman describes her relationship to the world through a singular cognitive and sensory perception, marked by hypersensitivity, heightened sensory processing and an intense relationship to perception and internal structures. This singular way of experiencing reality profoundly informs her artistic language and her relationship to creation, which functions as a space of self-regulation and perceptual organization. Repetition, density, fragmentation, silence and perceptual instability occupy a central place within her work, alongside obsessive gestures, accumulative processes and deeply immersive visual structures that reflect both the intensity and the precision of her inner experience.
After studying at the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne, she worked for several years as a designer within French haute couture houses in Paris before choosing to devote herself fully to her own artistic practice. Based in Seignosse, les Landes, southwest France.
Her work explores the inner human experience as a living traversal — at the intersection of poetry, philosophy, psychoanalysis and contemporary research on perception, neuroscience and the psyche. Painting, notebooks, photography and writing form a unified field of artistic investigation through which she examines memory, sensory experience, internal structures and the invisible tensions that shape human existence.
Creation functions for her as a vital regulatory space — a way of translating the complexity, violence and beauty of perception into material form. Through painting, drawing, photography and writing, she constructs inhabitable worlds through art: inner landscapes where perception, matter, memory and emotion can coexist, transform and become shareable experiences.
Since 2025, Agathe Toman has been represented by Mala Gallery and is a member of the Fondation Taylor. Her work entered an institutional collection following the acquisition of a drawing by the BIC Foundation in December 2025. Her works are held in several private collections internationally and have been auctioned at Sotheby’s three times. In 2026, she participated in Art Paris at the Grand Palais.
Alongside her artistic practice, she has been pursuing research in psychoanalysis and neuroscience in Paris for the past five years. She also develops a body of poetic writing, in both English and French, which accompanies and informs her visual work. She is the author of a first poetry collection, You Will Have to Learn to Smile Again, and is currently preparing a new bilingual book.
Diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, Agathe Toman describes her relationship to the world through a singular cognitive and sensory perception, marked by hypersensitivity, heightened sensory processing and an intense relationship to perception and internal structures. This singular way of experiencing reality profoundly informs her artistic language and her relationship to creation, which functions as a space of self-regulation and perceptual organization. Repetition, density, fragmentation, silence and perceptual instability occupy a central place within her work, alongside obsessive gestures, accumulative processes and deeply immersive visual structures that reflect both the intensity and the precision of her inner experience.
After studying at the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne, she worked for several years as a designer within French haute couture houses in Paris before choosing to devote herself fully to her own artistic practice. Based in Seignosse, les Landes, southwest France.
Her work explores the inner human experience as a living traversal — at the intersection of poetry, philosophy, psychoanalysis and contemporary research on perception, neuroscience and the psyche. Painting, notebooks, photography and writing form a unified field of artistic investigation through which she examines memory, sensory experience, internal structures and the invisible tensions that shape human existence.
Creation functions for her as a vital regulatory space — a way of translating the complexity, violence and beauty of perception into material form. Through painting, drawing, photography and writing, she constructs inhabitable worlds through art: inner landscapes where perception, matter, memory and emotion can coexist, transform and become shareable experiences.
Since 2025, Agathe Toman has been represented by Mala Gallery and is a member of the Fondation Taylor. Her work entered an institutional collection following the acquisition of a drawing by the BIC Foundation in December 2025. Her works are held in several private collections internationally and have been auctioned at Sotheby’s three times. In 2026, she participated in Art Paris at the Grand Palais.
Alongside her artistic practice, she has been pursuing research in psychoanalysis and neuroscience in Paris for the past five years. She also develops a body of poetic writing, in both English and French, which accompanies and informs her visual work. She is the author of a first poetry collection, You Will Have to Learn to Smile Again, and is currently preparing a new bilingual book.