Marqueur alcool sur papier layout, 2018

Lady K  

Lady K began painting during her adolescence. She experimented with different mediums and techniques, ranging from graffiti to surrealism in 1992. She was mainly drawn to the entire modern period from the end of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century. Lady K studied at the Beaux-Arts in Paris and at the University of Paris 1. 

Active since 1997, she devoted her practice exclusively to graffiti in 2000. She used several pseudonyms and ended up keeping Lady K in 1998. She was quickly noticed by the small circle of female graffiti artists and is considered one of the best graffiti artists in France. Specializing in lettering, Lady K seeks to take her letters out of the academicism that may exist in the forms of tag and graffiti. 

Immersed in a universe at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, Lady K enjoys drawing on international cultural resources, openness to the world being for her the starting point for her work. It was in elementary school that Lady K first encountered modern art and tagging, through a Black Dragon sign in her school playground. Having occasionally experimented with stencils, tags and phrases during her adolescence, in 1997, she took over the urban space with her block letters. 

Lady K enrolled in Beaux-Arts Paris and continued a studio practice, where her paintings questioned the urban space, the female condition and an urban activity where she multiplied tags and graffiti on a wide variety of themes, with the desire to break codes.