Caroline Chariot-Dayez (born Brussels, 11 September 1958) is a Belgian hyperrealistic painter.
Although interested in painting from a very early age, she studied philosophy in order to understand what painting is. She was deeply influenced by the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty, who wrote extensively on perception, vision, embodiment, and painting.
Her life has been an ongoing interaction between philosophy, which she teaches, and painting. Until the age of forty, she was reluctant to show her paintings in public (with the exception of an appearance on the Belgian Broadcasting Corporation programme "The Arts at Large" in 1995).
She lives and works in Brussels.
Exhibitions
March 1999 – Galerie Elian Lisart – Brussels
November 2000 – Galerie Tempera – Brussels (Place Royale-Koningsplein)
December 2000 – Linéart – Ghent
February 2001 – Galerie Brûlée – Strasbourg
March–August 2001 – Galerie Tempera – Brussels (Place Royale-Koningsplein)
2002 – Galerie Brulée, Strasbourg
2002 – Galerie Arcadia, Lille, 2002
2003 – Collins and Hastie Gallery, London
2005 – Galerie Visconti, Paris
April 2006 – Lars Bolander, New York City "The Fold"
2007 – Tessenderloo Group, Brussels
March–April 2009 – Cathedral of Brussels, Brussels