Dominique Lacloche

The French artist Dominique Lacloche was born in 1960 in Rome, Italy, and now divides her time between Paris and London. Her practice centers on gelatin silver prints and photograms developed using giant Gunnera manicata leaves, extended into sculpture, immersive installation, and sound and electroacoustic composition. No school, degree, or year of formal art training is documented on her own site or in her gallery biography, and no source locates one.

Her exhibition record spans more than three decades, beginning with an early solo exhibition in London, Out of Afghanistan, at Agnew's in 1986. A 2009 to 2010 two-person presentation, Reflections, at Artwars Project Space in London was followed by a 2013 installation, Un degre plus haut, staged inside the Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis church in Paris. From 2015 onward her primary Paris gallery has been Loo & Lou, which mounted the solo exhibition GURU across two of its spaces, and she has shown in group exhibitions such as Rencontres improbables at Oqbo Gallery, Berlin (2016). In London she has been represented by Tristan Hoare Gallery, which presented her solo exhibitions Botanica (2019) and Synergy (2020). In 2017 her work traveled further afield to the International Museum of Emeralds in Bogota, Colombia, for the exhibition Urpflanze. She continues to work and exhibit as of 2026.

Available sources document a steady, multi-decade exhibition history rather than a body of independent critical writing. No verbatim review or interview quote from a named critic in a major outlet could be confirmed for this artist in the available research. Her standing to date rests on continuous gallery representation in two major art markets and on a small number of institutional and site-specific presentations, including a 2013 installation in a historic Paris church and a 2017 exhibition at a museum in Bogota, rather than on a documented critical consensus.

No verified auction sale, public or otherwise, has been identified for Dominique Lacloche as of mid-2026. Her career appears to run almost entirely through the primary gallery market, principally Tristan Hoare Gallery in London and Loo & Lou Gallery in Paris, rather than through auction houses. A separate, sometimes confused, name in the auction record, Lacloche Freres, refers to a historic Parisian jewelry firm active from 1892 to 1967. Its highest recorded sale is an Art Deco ruby, emerald, onyx, and diamond bracelet that brought CHF 673,100 at Christie's Geneva on 11 November 2025; that result, and others in jewelry sales at houses such as Sotheby's and Waddington's, belong to the jewelry maison, not to this artist, and should not be read as her market history.

There is no catalogue raisonne, no confirmed auction record, and no named public museum collection for this artist; her own biography states only that works are held in private collections worldwide. Because her market activity to date is gallery-based rather than auction-based, collectors have little public pricing history to reference and should verify any offered work directly with Tristan Hoare Gallery or Loo & Lou Gallery. Collectors should also take care not to confuse this artist with Lacloche Freres, the historic French jewelry house that shares her surname and appears independently in jewelry auction catalogues.