BIOGRAPHY

Agathe Toman is a French artist born in 1989 in Paris, working across painting, drawing, photography and poetry.

She studied at the École de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and worked for several years in haute couture before leaving fashion at twenty-five to devote herself entirely to art. She now lives and works in Seignosse, France.

Her practice explores perception, inner experience and the living through a fragmented way of seeing. Painting, drawing, photography and writing are different territories within the same enquiry.

Her successive series - Les Invisibles, FLUIDS, Bleues, VOID and La Forêt - trace the

evolution of this research. Matter, repetition, saturation, landscape and the body become ways of investigating what takes shape before it can be named.

Alongside her artistic practice, Agathe Toman studied psychoanalysis, Transactional Analysis and psychopathology for six years. Between 2025 and 2026, she also maintained a clinical practice, extending her research into perception, transformation and relation.

In 2026, she was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder - Asperger syndrome. The diagnosis retrospectively shed light on a way of perceiving that had always been there: an intense

relationship to details, patterns, sensory information and repetition.

Since 2025, Agathe Toman has been represented in France by Mala Gallery on a non-exclusive basis.

Her work has been presented at DDessin Paris (2018, 2019) and Art Paris at the Grand Palais (2019, 2026). Between 2021 and 2023, several works were offered at auction at Sotheby’s Paris and Cologne.

In 2025, the BIC Foundation acquired one of her drawings. Her work is held in private collections in France and internationally.

Poetry has accompanied her practice from the outset. In 2025, she published You Will Have to Learn to Smile Again, her first collection of poetry in English.

A second collection, this time bilingual in French and English, is currently in preparation.