Clara Rivault graduated from the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts Montpellier Contemporain and holds a Master’s degree from La Cambre in Brussels. It was at the Centre International d’Art Verrier in Meisenthal that she discovered glasswork.
Winner of the HEDERA project, in 2023 she created a monumental work for the façade of the Institut français headquarters in Paris. She was also selected for the creation of the stained-glass windows of Saint-Paterne church in Saint-Pair-sur-Mer, in collaboration with Poiema and Vitrail France. Entitled Lunam et Solem, this work will be delivered during 2026. At the same time, Clara Rivault designed a stained-glass window for the tomb of Lisa Gherardini — the model for Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa — which has been visible since 4 September 2025 at the Sant’Orsola museum in Florence. Among her recent exhibitions, she presented a monumental installation entitled Les Treillis from 8 February to 30 March 2025 at the Centre d’art Les Églises in Chelles. She is currently showing a solo exhibition, La Tresse des Araignées, until 29 November 2025 at the Galerie Les filles du Calvaire.
With a rich and varied academic background, Clara explores a wide range of complex traditional techniques linked to the arts of fire, such as bronze, glass, and porcelain. Her passion for learning new techniques using diverse media quickly led her to take part in international residency programmes.
Specialised in the art of stained glass, the artist devotes herself to this long creative process that begins with photographic sampling; she then dislocates, recomposes, and crystallises these images in order to propose a narrative in which mythologies and the real world merge. Her observation of organic materials and living tissues feeds a palette of forms and textures that she breathes into glass, giving them a sculptural dimension. The notion of the body acts as the nourishing common thread running through Clara Rivault’s polymorphic work.
Her works are held in the collections of the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris and the Fonds d’art contemporain – Paris Collections.
