Marcy Petit is a French interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans installation, lens-based media such as photography and video, performance, and textiles. Rather than committing to a single medium, she experiments with tools, materials, and processes, allowing each project to determine its own form. Medium becomes a language she selects and reshapes according to what she seeks to express. Guided by curiosity and research, her work evolves through exploration and transformation.
She studied Fine Art at the University of Rennes and earned a Master's degree in Contemporary Art Management from the University of Leeds and Paris 8. After living in the U.K. for many years, she now lives and works in San Francisco, California.
Marcy’s diverse practice critically engages with social, political, and cultural issues, with particular attention to gender, feminism, social or working class identity, and environmental concerns. Her works are often rooted in personal memory and familial histories, navigating themes of inherited narratives, reminiscence and transformation. Through these intimate entry points, she explores the intersections of popular culture, the female condition, and lived experience.
Informed by a strong ecofeminist perspective, her recent projects reflect an urgent engagement with landscapes and the natural world. Drawing on folklore, myth and esotericism culture as feminist and political tools, she weaves together art, magic, and activism. Through this synthesis, she challenges dominant narratives and invites viewers to reconsider their position within complex social and ecological systems.
Guided by her belief in the educational and transformative power of art, she creates accessible yet layered works that intertwine narration, truth, violence, and beauty. Influenced by poetry, writing, and theatre, she frequently incorporates textual and performative elements into her installations. She approaches her works as fragments, relics, or mementos—constructing and deconstructing narratives that blur the boundaries between the real and the fictional.
Having exhibited internationally, Marcy Petit continues to develop new bodies of work that foster dynamic conversations about the evolving relationships between art, society, and nature.
Collective Exhibitions:
- Wilderness Commons, Newark works, Fringe Art Bath Festival, Bath, UK, May - June 2024
- Girls + Guts, 44AD Artspace, Fringe Art Bath Festival, Bath, UK, May - June 2024
- Open Call, Gallery Lock In, Brighton, UK, April 2024
- Whisper Whisper, Private Exhibition, London, UK, Mars 2024
- Semi-Conscious, Islington Arts Factory, London, UK, November 2023
- Space, Places, Broadway Gallery, Hertfordshire, UK, April 2023
- Anywhere in between, The tub, Hackney, London, U.K, August 2022
-Hey Mummy !, 59 Rivoli gallery, Paris, France, June 2022 [Download the press kit]
- RIPOSTE, The Cause, London, UK, December 2021
- Let Us Eat Cake, Pineapple Black Art Gallery, Middlesbrough, UK, June 2021
- Portes ouvertes des ateliers d’artistes, Rennes, France, October 2020
- FORM.FEM., Blech Galerie, Halle (Saale), Germany, August 2020 [Download the brochure]
- The lost festivals, The Lacuna Studios, online festival, July 2020
- La Femme s’expose, Cultural Centre of Andenne, Belgium, March, 2019 [Download the brochure]
- Paradoxe, Les Ateliers Pandore, l’International, Paris, France, 2018
- The Wall, L’Entre Monde, Aubervilliers, France, 2017
- Aklumda, an exhibition in featuring with Natacha Lesueur, Espace M, Rennes, France, 2014
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
- Under the Owl’s Eye, Wave Pool Gallery, Cincinnati, USA, 2025
- Double Reflexion, Bowery Gallery, Leeds, U.K, 2017
ARTISTIC RESIDENCES:
-Vance Waddell Feminist Residency , Cincinnati, USA, April - May 2025
-Icelandic Textile Center Residency Program, Blönduós, Iceland, October 2022
-Zaratan Residency Program, Zaratan Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal, August 2021
- AADK Residency Program, Negra Centre, Blanca, Spain, 2019
PROJECTIONS & SCREENINGS - FESTIVAL OF VIDEO ART:
- Seeing in the dark, Fringe Art Bath Festival, Bath, UK, 1st June 2024
- Social World Film Festival -11th Edition / New Languages category, 11 - 18 July 2021
- Festival Lift-Off Global Network (online), Pinewood Studios, London, Sessions February 2021
- Festival ECRÃ, Museum of modern art, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 20 - 30 august 2020
- Wherever I go, I’m in a movie, East bristol Contemporary & BF Artist Film, Festival, Bristol, U.K, 2018 [Download the brochure]
PUBLIC PERFORMING ACTIONS:
- [F] LE MUR [M] - action performative en faveur des murs, performing action in duo with Funda Tokac, 2017
- Invitations, a food happening with Romain Revers, Rennes, France, 2014
- WHERE AND HOW DID YOU FIND THAT!, Fluxus Event Party (with Ben Patterson), Rennes, France, 2011