Katherine Roumanoff — Textile artist, portraits of women
The feminine and the vegetal as guiding threads
Katherine Roumanoff is a French textile artist, a pioneer of the textile portrait for nearly thirty years. Working from repurposed upholstery fabrics, she composes feminine figures without any preliminary drawing — figures that explore memory, inner landscapes, and the condition and visibility of women. Her work stands at the crossroads of contemporary textile art, outsider art, naive art and engaged art.
In the spotlight
Engagés — La Récréation, contemporary art space, Le Thoureil (49)
Opening on Friday, October 23 from 6pm. Group exhibition, October 23 to November 15, 2026, Friday to Sunday, 2:30pm to 6:30pm. 25 quai des Mariniers, Le Thoureil, Gennes-Val-de-Loire. With: Trax, Nelly Buret, Séverine Lièvre, Anne-marie Donaint Bonave, Emma Tenailleau, Katherine Roumanoff, Laura Thilderman, Nathalie Roux, Vincent Drouillard and Cécile de la Monneraye.
MIDAN, International Museum of Naive Art — "La Nature" exhibition
MIDAN, in Vicq (78), has selected Le Jardin la nuit, a textile portrait by Katherine Roumanoff, for its group exhibition devoted to nature, from October 30, 2026 to spring 2027.
Arts & Saveurs — Crafts fair, Angers
November 13 to 15, 2026, at the Centre de Congrès in Angers. Free entry (worth €5) on request by email to k.roumanoff@gmail.com, subject to availability.
Women, inner landscapes — Town Hall of the 16th arrondissement, Paris
Opening on Monday, November 23 at 6pm. On view from Monday, November 23 to Monday, November 30, 2026, during the Town Hall's opening hours, with exceptional openings on Saturday, November 28 from 10am to 6pm and Sunday, November 29 from 2pm to 6:30pm. Reproductions on the railings and original artworks presented inside.
Textile portraits — Maison des Métiers d'Art, Pointe de Bouchemaine (49)
Friday May 7 to Sunday May 16, 2027, 11am to 7pm, closed on Mondays.
Free catalogue
Textile portraits, 28 years of creation
Receive Katherine Roumanoff’s catalogue free by e-mail: 200 pages, published by Quiltmania, with a preface by Alain Vircondelet.
Recognition
Le Livre d'Art Prize — Salon d'Automne 2025, Naive Art section, for Éclaircie (17 winners out of around 1,000 entries).
"A dense and inhabited body of work, reinventing figurative portraiture through textile materiality."— Ainhoa Fernández, curator, 2025
