Charlotte Beaudry’s figurative paintings often depict objects borrowed from popular culture, the everyday and the world of celebrity. From a gigantic cactus to Lady Diana’s tiara, her distinctive iconography is inspired by fragments of reality, as well as photographs she takes herself or sources from the Internet. Characteristic of her practice is the way she isolates her subjects and depicts them frontally, as to avoid situating them within any specific context. The tradition of portraiture through is also a reoccurring theme in Beaudry’s work, which manifested in 2022 in a spectacular public commission entitled Stand Up in the Annie Cordy Tunnel in Brussels. The walls of the tunnel have been adorned with hundreds of images of Beaudry’s portraits of women, comprising two monumental 2.5 km long frescoes that explore the themes of femininity and identity in the public space.

Beaudry’s work is held in international collections including the Pérez Art Museum Miami; MOCAK, Krakow; Thalie Art Foundation, Brussels; K & K Kollektion, Monaco. She has achieved international acclaim through major exhibitions at WIELS, Brussels; BOZAR, Brussels; BPS22, Charleroi; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; MOCAK, Krakow. In 2023, she had her first retrospective in the UK, entitled Charlotte Beaudry: Me and organised by Canopy Collections, London.