Born in 1986 in Washington, D.C. Marie de Villepin grew up in the United States and India. Raised in a diplomatic household, Marie had the chance to surround herself with a prominent circle of poets, musicians, filmmakers, and artists including Zao Wou-Ki or Roberto Matta who also were family friends. Art was a constant feature in her upbringing, and she began developing her drawing and musical skills at an early age throughout her frequent travels.
In 2005, she moved to New York City, later spending time in Los Angeles, where she pursued several musical projects before turning fully to painting. Interested in the connections between colour, rhythm, and sound, she began using painting to explore memory, landscape, and emotion. Her canvases became a way of making sense of exile, solitude, and uncertainty through layers of gestures and colour.
Over time, her work evolved into a world of imagined landscapes, hybrid creatures, and fragmented architectures. Moving between figuration and abstraction, her paintings create spaces where memory, gesture, and atmosphere come together, inviting viewers into landscapes that are both intimate and open to interpretation.
Marie de Villepin has exhibited internationally in New York, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Paris, Beijing, Hong Kong, Geneva, Hamburg, and Milan. She presented her first solo exhibition, New Creatures, in Paris in 2019. In 2022, following the pandemic, she unveiled The Lost Weekend, bringing together works created in the United States and France, before presenting Murmuration, her first major solo exhibition in Hong Kong. That same year, she was selected as one of twelve recipients of the Prix Antoine Marin, awarded by Galerie Julio Gonzalez, following a nomination by Anselm Kiefer.
In 2023, she presented Behind the Sun at the Today Art Museum in Beijing. The following year, her work was exhibited at the Collection Lambert in Avignon and the Zhi Art Museum in Chengdu, while she continued expanding her international collaborations with galleries including Galerie Magda Danysz and Dumonteil. She also participated in The Dreams of Light, a group exhibition at Mariane Ibrahim in Mexico City.
In 2025, she presented three solo exhibitions: Le Jardin Retrouvé at Espace Muraille in Geneva, Turn to Salt at Villepin in Hong Kong, and Visions of Collisions at Galerie MelbyeKonan in Hamburg.