Marguerite Piard (b.1996, Rueil-Malmaison, CT) lives and works in Paris, FR.
Marguerite Piard favors non-traditional pictorial mediums such as oval pebbles, irregular wooden boards, cuttlefish bones, etc. Their shapes embrace and amplify the symbolic, precious, and vulnerable dimension of female bodies, which constitute the artist’s preferred theme. In a generous and textured Mediterranean palette, pagan and classical iconographies blend, especially within the image of the shell-sex and water as a magical vehicle enabling introspection.
Marguerite Piard graduated from the Beaux Arts de Paris in 2020. She has exhibited in solo exhibitions with Stems Gallery, Knokke-Heist, BE ; PARIS-B, Paris, FR; Château La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, FR; galerie Maestrìa, Paris, FR, and Chapelle XIV, Paris, FR. Recent group shows include Stems Gallery, Paris, FR; Mint Gallery, Munich, DE; Consulat Volaire, Paris, FR; Galerie Mathilde M le Coz & Elsa Meunier, Paris, FR; Palo Gallery, New York, NY; La Bifurk, Grenoble, FR; Consulat Voltaire, Paris, FR; Edji Gallery, Bruxelles, BE; Myriam Chair, Paris, FR; Sotheby’s, Paris, FR; Bubenberg, St Moritz, CH; Cultur Foundry, Paris, FR; Maestria, Paris, FR; Espace Futur, Paris, FR; Villa Noailles, Toulon, FR; Galeria Nueva, Arco, Madrid, ES; Ground effect, Paris, FR; Chapelle XIV, Paris, FR; Galerie Provost Hacker, Lille, FR; Cabane Georgina, Marseille, FR; Point Ephémère,
Paris, FR, and Atelier Stories, Geneva, CH among others.
Recent residencies include Consulat Voltaire, Paris, FR, and La Folie Barbizon, Barbizon, FR. Her work is part of institutional collections such as the MACAAL (Museum of Contemporary African Art Al Maaden) in Marrakech, Morocco, Majudia Collection in Montreal, Canada.