biography
Capucine Bourcart is a French interdisciplinary artist based in New York City since 2006. Of French and Vietnamese heritage, she works across textiles, sculpture, installation, photography, performance, and video. Her practice begins with what she encounters in everyday life: overlooked objects, domestic materials, natural fragments, and things that are unstable, discarded, or in the process of disappearing. Through accumulation, repetition, play, and transformation, her work explores care, consumption, memory, and the fragile relationship between humans and the natural world.
Bourcart’s work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in the United States and Europe, including exhibitions in New York, California, Boston, France, and Switzerland. Her work is held in the collections of the Musée Théodore Deck in France, the Museum of Motherhood, and Columbia University Medical Center in New York. She has also created four large-scale public artworks printed on aluminum and installed in New York City.
Her work has been presented at Art on Paper, Art Wynwood, and Flux Art Fair. She has received support from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, UNIQLO Park Expressions, and The Puffin Foundation. In 2023, she received the Paula Rhodes Memorial Award for exceptional achievement in Fine Arts for her MFA thesis at the School of Visual Arts.
Bourcart has participated in residencies at Monson Arts, KinoSaito, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, Marble House Project, Sea Breeze, and Interlude. She is currently an artist-in-residence at Art Cake in Brooklyn.
In 2020, she co-founded Art Forms Us, a collective and forum dedicated to conversations about artistic processes, contemporary art, and collaborative projects. She also co-chairs the Art Committee at PS 84 in New York, where she initiates collaborative projects, including large-scale mosaics, with students, families, artists, and the wider school community.
Bourcart received her MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in 2023.
statement
Everything begins with what I notice, what I touch, what stays with me.
Elements are gathered instinctively, as I move through daily life, following what draws my attention and what keeps coming back.
These are often things that are overlooked, unstable, or in the process of disappearing.
There is no fixed starting point.
Connections come later, over time.
Elements meet, transform, and begin to make sense through contact and repetition.
There is play in the process, but it is taken seriously.
It is a way of exploring, shifting things, and seeing what happens.
What feels slightly strange or out of place is something I trust.
That’s often where the work begins.