Marguerite Piard (b. 1996) is a French painter who graduated from Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2020. Working primarily in oil, she stages her own body alongside those of her close circle, capturing introspective poses, embraces, and gestures of care. By suspending seemingly ordinary moments, her paintings create space to reflect on emotional wounds, their transmission, and the possibility of healing. These restrained scenes form an open visual language where faith and eroticism quietly intersect.
As Elora Weill-Engerer writes: “Marguerite Piard’s pictorial motifs fully partake in this emotion drawn inward, consuming or restraining itself, like tears caught on eyelashes. The body is absorbed into the moment, and suspended emotions take the form of a silent, trembling intoxication… This inaction renders the paintings ambiguous: a caress can be both burn and balm.”
In August 2025, Piard presented Les Veilleuses with Stems Gallery, her fourth solo exhibition, following Sang-Froid (Galerie Paris B, 2024), La folle allure (Château La Coste, 2023), and J’ai quelquefois des vivants qui me donnent des insomnies (Galerie Maestrìa). In 2023, she was invited to the Therapeia residency in Paxos, Greece. Her work has also been exhibited with Mint (Munich), Palo (New York), Edji (Brussels), and Monti8 (Latina, Italy), and featured in fairs including Unilted Miami, Art Paris, Art Brussels, and NADA New York.
She is currently exhibiting at the Alice Austen House Museum in New York in She Sells Seashells, curated by Gemma Rolls-Bentley, which explores queer women’s relationships to the seaside.