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Margaux Derhy

Margaux Derhy

Margaux Derhy was born in France to a French mother and a Moroccan Berber father. She studied in London at Central Saint Martins and earned a Master’s in Painting from the Royal College of Art. She currently lives and works between Paris and Massa, Morocco.

Her practice explores memory, heritage, and the complexities of “pluridentity” (multi-identity) through painting and embroidery. Drawing from photographic archives—specifically those of her paternal family, who left Morocco in 1967—she examines what is lost, silenced, or transformed by migration and assimilation.

Works

En solitude 3

En solitude 3

En solitude 1

En solitude 1

A mother’s solace 16

A mother’s solace 16

A mother’s solace 7

A mother’s solace 7

A mother’s solace 1

A mother’s solace 1

A mother’s solace 3

A mother’s solace 3

A mother’s solace 8

A mother’s solace 8

A mother’s solace 14

A mother’s solace 14

A mother’s solace 21

A mother’s solace 21

A mother’s solace 22

A mother’s solace 22

Jeux de métamorphose

Jeux de métamorphose

Studio Mogador 1947 – Régine enfant

Studio Mogador 1947 – Régine enfant

Mémoire Vive 55

Mémoire Vive 55

En Solitude 4

En Solitude 4

En Solitude 2

En Solitude 2

Biography

Margaux Derhy was born in France to a French mother and a Moroccan Berber father. She studied in London at Central Saint Martins and earned a Master’s in Painting from the Royal College of Art. She currently lives and works between Paris and Massa, Morocco.

Her practice explores memory, heritage, and the complexities of “pluridentity” (multi-identity) through painting and embroidery. Drawing from photographic archives—specifically those of her paternal family, who left Morocco in 1967—she examines what is lost, silenced, or transformed by migration and assimilation.

In 2022, she established an embroidery workshop in Massa. The studio operates on the principles of co-creation: collaborators contribute actively to artistic decisions and are fully credited, challenging the art world’s tendency to obscure collaborative labor.

She has participated in several residencies, including the Institut Français de Tanger (2025), the Jaal residency (2024), and Al Maqam Marrakech (2021). Her recent exhibitions include 1-54 Marrakech and London (2025, 2024), Akka and Menart Fair Paris (2024, 2023), and “D’une Rive à l’Autre” (From One Shore to Another) at Eden Casablanca (2023).

Beyond her studio work, Margaux Derhy founded Le Cercle de l’Art in 2020, a community supporting French-speaking women artists, and has directed the Massa Stories artist residency since 2019.

Exhibitions

Career

Études

2024
Formation aux techniques traditionnelles de broderie à l’École Lesage, Paris, France
2019-2021
Master en peinture au Royal College of Art (RCA), Londres, Royaume-Uni
2018-2019
Diplôme de troisième cycle en art et science à Central Saint Martins (CSM), Londres, Royaume-Uni
2015-2018
Cycle intensif de peinture, Atelier Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (ABA), Paris, France

Expositions

2026 (à venir)

« Etats de Passage », curaté par Achraf Remok, Izza, Marrakech
« La Mémoire des Gestes », Galerie 208, Marrakech
« The Garden of Encounters », Jnane Rumi, Marrakech
Exposition collective, Galerie Loft, Paris
Exposition collective, Tabari Artspace, Dubai
« Diaspora Wonderland », Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen, Berlin
« Le Mariage au Maghreb », Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris

2025

« Jeux d’artistes », Abla Ababou, Rabat
« Line(s) of Desire », curaté par Achraf Remok, Izza, Marrakech
« En relation », curaté par Jeanne Barral, Le Cercle de l’Art, Paris
« Hot Spots », Tabari Artspace, Sotheby’s, UAE