Mahaut Rey

Mahaut Rey (born in 1996 in Paris) lives and works in Paris.

A graduate of École nationale supérieure des arts visuels de La Cambre (Brussels, Belgium), she explores narratives of emancipation relating to our bodies and identities through painting, digital art, and writing.

Her work features fluid characters who quietly construct mysterious, heroic, and intimate narratives. Each representation, oscillating between figuration and abstraction, draws on the perceptions and experiences of disorientation of disabled, queer, or displaced bodies. The colour palette thus evokes an in-between world, where the landscape unfolds in a space that is neither physical nor virtual, suspended between archetypes of the past and avatars of the future.

Her work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions at art institutions, galleries, and independent spaces, including SHOWstudio in London (2026), Art Basel Paris (2025), and La Volonté93 in Saint-Ouen (2025). Her work has also been acquired by Fonds d’art contemporain Paris Collections. In 2026, she was selected for the Passerelles mentoring programme run by the association Contemporaines and awarded a place in 2-12, an annual residency at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris.

Anne Bourrassé et Elisa Rigoulet

Photo @ Benni valsson