Lucile Piketty is a French artist, born in 1990 in Paris.
After receiving a DMA (Arts and Crafts) degree from the school Estienne in engraving in 2011, she then enrolled in the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris where she received a scholarship to study at Parsons School in New York before receiving her diploma in 2015.
Winner of the engraving prize of Lacourière in 2016, she became a resident of Casa de Velázquez - Académie de France in Madrid, in 2017-2018 before passing a year in residence at the Cité internationale des Arts (Paris) in 2019.
Employing various media and expressions of engraving, Lucile Piketty makes references to the history of art, folk art, and her own experience and memories to develop her own world that resonates with those around her. She favors “direct” techniques (engraving on wood, lithography, monotype, and dry point) that retain the instinctive dimension of drawing and offer an extension of her style. She often presents her subjects in series, where each image is in dialogue with another, suspending histories; the human figure plays an essential role in her compositions.