ELODIE BLANCHARD

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Elodie Blanchard is a French-American artist and designer based in Brooklyn, whose textile-based practice transforms discarded materials into sculptures, wall hangings, vessels, and immersive installations. Working primarily with used clothing and textile remnants, she reclaims these forgotten or overlooked materials through layering, stitching, and embroidery.

Blanchard’s work is both intuitive and intentional, balancing technical experimentation with emotional resonance. Her process often begins with accumulation and sorting—collecting fabric like a painter builds a palette—before deconstructing and reassembling it in unexpected ways. Through repetition, fabric manipulation, and exploration, she constructs new forms that embody resilience, imperfection, and playful reinvention.

While vibrant and whimsical on the surface, her work also explores themes of time, and personal and collective memory. Blanchard describes her aesthetic as “joyful, with a tint of gloom, melancholy, and weirdness”—stitching remnants into a new narrative.

Born in France, she studied sculpture at l’École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, fashion at l’École Duperré, and performance at CalArts. After early success in fashion—including winning the public prize at the Festival de Hyères and collaborating with La Redoute—she moved to the U.S., where she established her design studio in 2005. Over the past 20 years, she has collaborated with numerous architects on large-scale textile installations for public spaces, institutions, residences, offices, and hotels. As a designer, she has developed award-winning textile collections for brands including HBF Textiles, Concertex, In2Green, and Fil Doux, and was named Interiors + Sources Designer of the Year.

Her artwork has been exhibited at the French Institute in New York City and Somerset House in London. She recently had two solo shows—at Kishka Gallery and Library in Vermont and at TenBerke Architects in NYC.

She has been an artist-in-residence at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Lycée Français de New York, and teaches at Parsons School of Design and other institutions. She shares her creative process through textile workshops, hoping to inspire joy in making and a love of mending in others.