Joëlle Kem Lika

France Born in: 1955 Bestsellers Emerging artists

Joëlle Kem Lika is a French artist.

She studied at Atelier Albers for two years, a school that prepares pupils who wish to join any of the major Art and Decoration schools in France. Simultaneously she discovered psychology, psychoanalysis and sophrology in which she took a great interest. She chose this profession and was a psychotherapist in Paris for over 25 years.

Joëlle Kem Lika continued to draw and paint and went to fine arts school in Auxerre, Burgundy. She ended her therapist career in 2006 at age 51 to become a full time professional artist. She started a new life and concentrated on her passion for painting.

After a number of exhibits all over France since 2000, she opened her own contemporary art galleries. In March 2007 in Burgundy near Chablis, in the studio of her country house and later that year she bought the village café and turned it into an art gallery. In 2009 she has opened her studio in Lacanau by the Atlantic Ocean and in 2011 she had an extension built.

In February 2010 she has opened her gallery in the heart of Paris, near Les Halles and the bustling Montorgueil street.