“Composed of ceramic works, drawings and paintings on canvas, Karima Duchamp's work is polymorphic. From her training as a ceramist, she has kept a taste for the material that she works and reworks to achieve lightness, transparency and luminosity. She moves from one medium to another, so that each technique enriches her creation. The material of the clay, the spring colors of her palette, the light that emanates from her work, all these visual and material manifestations reveal her creative journey.” Text by Catherine Koenig

Born in France to Algerian parents, Karima Duchamp is driven by the conscious and unconscious links to her origins, feeling like a transmitter of women's stories. She draws her inspiration from historical frescoes, ornamentation and vernacular architecture. In a reduction of forms, she seeks to get to the essential. This research is motivated by a sensitivity to the passage of time in a form of contemplation and nostalgia offering a particular language to read and imagine the world.

A graduate of the Beaux-Arts of Besançon in France with a MFA, and an additional year in ceramic art, Karima is a member of the Académie Internationale de la Céramique and teaches workshops in France and abroad.

Her work has won numerous awards and has been included in solo and group exhibitions around the world such as Paris Design Week, Collectible in Brussels, The Salon Art + Design in New York, Design Miami-Basel.

Some works have joined private and public collections such as the Ariana Museum in Geneva, Grottaglie Museum in Italy, Siegburg Museum in Germany, and Yingge Museum in Taiwan.

She regularly participates in the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 2025, one of her paintings is selected for an exhibition at the National Art Centre in Tokyo. 

She has participated in several residencies including Northern Clay Centre, Minneapolis, USA (2024) Neumünster Kunstlerhaus, Germany (2019), Studio Kura in Fukuoka, Japan (2018), The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, USA (2015), Shigaraki Ceramic Centre, Japan (2013). In 2024, she was the recipient the US three months Mac Knight Grant for the Arts. In 2025, she is invited for a three months residency at Taoxichuan Art Centre in Jingdezhen, China.