Charlotte Beaudry’s figurative paintings often depict objects drawn from popular culture, everyday life and the world of celebrity. From a gigantic cactus to Lady Diana’s tiara, her distinctive iconography is inspired by fragments of reality, as well as photographs she takes herself or sources from the Internet. A defining aspect of her practice is the way she isolates her subjects, presenting them frontally to avoid placing them within any specific narrative or setting. Portraiture is a recurring theme in Beaudry’s work, culminating in 2022 in a remarkable public commission titled Stand Up in the Annie Cordy Tunnel in Brussels. The tunnel’s walls were transformed with hundreds of her portraits of women, forming two monumental 2.5 km–long frescoes that explore femininity and female identity in the public space.

Beaudry’s work is held in international private and public collections, including the Pérez Art Museum Miami; MOCAK, Krakow; Bonnefantenmuseum, Netherlands; FMAC, France; K & K Kollektion, Monaco; Thalie Art Foundation, Brussels; National Bank of Belgium. She has exhibited at WIELS, Brussels; BOZAR, Brussels; BPS22, Charleroi; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; Almine Rech, Brussels; Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Limoges; Museum of Ixelles, Brussels; Galerie von Bartha Garage, Basel. In 2023, Canopy Collections curated her first solo exhibition in the UK, titled Charlotte Beaudry: Me.