Beatrice Lebreton

Inspired by the African Diaspora, Béatrice Lebreton sources her multicultural heritage and current events as she creates work that encourages the viewer’s engagement and interpretation. Working primarily in mixed media, Lebreton combines textiles, stitched and beaded surfaces with painted sections on the canvas as a means of commemoration and interaction. The patterns, fabrics, and beads become a focal motif that add a tactile touch and fuse into what she characterizes as a language stretched between the limits of the imaginary and history.  Still, storytelling is quite important to her practice, as evidenced using combining text into the composition. She engages viewers visually on multiple levels while creating a space for curiosity in examining the information embedded within the work.

Unapologetically, Lebreton celebrates womanhood. Throughout her body of artistic expressions, she shatters the stereotypes women are born into and illustrate growth and change. Her art carries connotations of identity, social discomfort, feminism, representation, and transformation.

Her work is in private collections throughout the United States and France. Exhibitions include the Art Institute of Chicago, Winston-Salem State University, the African American Museum in Dallas, Dallas Visual Arts Center, Woman Made Gallery Chicago, Columbia University, and the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, among others.

Likewise, Lebreton has amassed a portfolio to include public art commissions for hospitals, hotels, the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York, VIA Metropolitan Transit system in San Antonio and the University of Oregon University, to list a few.  She has been featured in the American Art Review, the Dallas Morning News and the International Review of African American Art, in addition to other noted publications. Equally, Lebreton has garnered broadcast media attention appearing on local affiliates of national news programming from ABC, CBS and NBC.

Lebreton is a French native presently based in Harlem. She received a Master of Fine Arts from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris and a Master of Ethno-aesthetic, with a concentration in African Art from La Sorbonne University.


  • Artwork by Beatrice Lebreton depicting a mans head standing against a mixed media pattern.
    UNIVERS(ELLE) CULTURAL POLLINATION AND SELF- RECONSTRUCTION
    Mixed media
    56x71
    $22,000
  • Artwork by Beatrice Lebreton depicting a womans head standing against a mixed media pattern.
    NOMADE
    Mixed media
    55x71
    $22,000
  • Artwork by Beatrice Lebreton depicting a solemn face against a mixed media pattern.
    STRING OF BEADS
    Mixed media
    56x71
    $22,000
  • Artwork by Beatrice Lebreton depicting two women leaning against each other against a mixed media pattern.
    E=mc2 : Completion
    Mixed media
    41x51
    $10,000
  • Artwork by Beatrice Lebreton depicting a womans face against a mixed media pattern.
    MY MOTHERS’ GARDEN
    Mixed media
    55x71
    $22,000
  • Artwork by Beatrice Lebreton depicting a tree with two red deer.
    My beloved is like a gazelle
    Acrylic, fabric paint, embroidery
    12x12
    $885
  • Artwork by Beatrice Lebreton depicting a tree with two red deer.
    The season of singing has come
    Acrylic, fabric paint, embroidery
    12x12
    $885
  • I will get up now and go about the city
    Acrylic, fabric paint, embroidery
    12x12
    $885
  • Behold, you are beautiful, my love
    Acrylic, fabric paint, embroidery
    12x12
    $885
  • His head is purest gold, his hair is wavy
    Acrylic, fabric paint, embroidery
    12x12
    $885
  • If I found you outside, I would kiss you
    Acrylic, fabric paint, embroidery
    12x12
    $885
  • Come away, my beloved! be like a gazelle
    Acrylic, fabric paint, embroidery
    12x12
    $885
  • RAINBOW IN MY BLUES
    Acrylic, African fabric on unstretched canvas
    46x67
    $9,500
  • EGO SUM
    Acrylic, African fabric on unstretched canvas
    44x66
    $9,500
  • BUTTERFLY’S DREAM
    Acrylic, African fabric on unstretched canvas
    49x67
    $9,500
  • Fluid like water
    Acrylic, African fabric on unstretched canvas
    46x67
    $9,500
  • NYOTA
    Acrylic, African fabric on unstretched canvas
    53x70
    $10,000
  • Astraea - Memories of a golden age
    Mixed media
    40x46
    $10,000
  • And still I rise
    Acrylic, African fabric, embroidery, beading
    24x36
    $4,400
  • Harmony
    Mixed media
    20.5x62
    $3,000
  • Night and day
    Mixed media
    20.75x62
    $3,000
  • Conversation
    Mixed media
    29x60.75
    $3,000
  • THE STAR GAZER - SOLACE IN THE STILLNESS
    Mixed media
    55x71
    $22,000
  • IF YOU SURRENDER TO THE AIR, YOU COULD RIDE IT
    Mixed media
    55x71
    $22,000
  • NIGREDO – OYA IS BRINGING THE WINDS OF CHANGE
    Mixed media
    54x70
    $22,000
  • JUMP AT DE SUN (for Zora)
    Mixed media
    56x71
    $22,000
  • RAINBOW SISTERHOOD (for Ntozake Shange)
    Mixed media
    52x71
    $20,000
  • YESTERDAY’ SEEDS AND TOMORROW’S BLOOMS
    Mixed media
    54x70
    $20,000
  • WILD SEED
    Mixed media
    55x70
    $20,000
  • The Bond - Power and Grace
    Mixed media
    42x50
    $10,500
  • THE STILLNESS OF HER SOUL
    Mixed media
    54x71
    $20,000
  • Bloom where you are planted
    Mixed media
    39x51
    $10,000