Juliette Dumas' work is informed by a deep preoccupation about planet earth and our relationship to it.

Dumas uses the physical properties of her materials and the dynamics of their interaction, to create poignant metaphors for humanity's struggle to control the effects of environmental degradation. Dumas embraces her continued engagement to the "Rio Negro Manifesto" (created in 1978 in Brazil by Pierre Restany), which is "Art for Nature, raising consciousness about Earth and the Natural World through Art.

After visiting the cave paintings of Lascaux in France, Dumas started to explore techniques using pigments and clay. Clay's primal feel and deep connection to the Earth allowed Dumas to sculpt into layers after layers of matter, mixing pigments, water and earth by bathing canvases in water (in an extreme physical process). Dumas developed her own secret technique which led her to create her critically acclaimed lifesize "Whale Flukes Paintings”. Dumas explores the formal properties and inherent meaning of forms of Nature. Drawing on historical precedents such as Lascaux cave paintings and Cézanne’s studies of the “Montagne Sainte Victoire”, her paintings are a study of the language of Nature, an attempt to understand an experience other than human. Dumas is presently exploring the ancient art of Fresco, a technique of mural paintings that become an integral part of the wall mixing clay, pigments and water

DUMAS (French, b. 1987 in Paris France; lives and works in Thomery, France) completed her BA at Villa Arson in Nice France and her MFA at School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 2013. She has been awarded artist residencies at Festival Grandeur Nature, Ristolas, France in 2009 and La Station, Nice in 2015. She was nominated for Clare Rosen & Samuel Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists by the Painting and Drawing Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Dumas' work was featured in notable group and solo exhibitions including “Winter Studies” (2015), Kunstverein Gaestezimmer E.V, Stuttgart, Germany (Curated by Alf Setzer); “Ad Hoc”(2015), La Station, Nice, France (curated by Collectif Culbuto).