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Lady K
Lady K is a French visual artist and writer, living and working in Paris, France.
Early life
From an early age, Lady K developed a strong interest in drawing and painting. During primary school, she was particularly interested in Cubism and Surrealism, and spent much of her time drawing manga characters. She grew up in a culturally diverse environment influenced by both European and Asian cultures, which later informed her artistic practice.
A decisive moment occurred when a classmate returned to school with a drawing that impressed her greatly. She then decided to draw “as well as, or better than” that classmate, marking the beginning of her sustained engagement with visual creation.
Education
In 2000, Lady K entered the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, from which she graduated in 2007.
She subsequently completed two master’s degrees at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne: • a Master’s degree in Visual Arts and Contemporary Creation, supervised by Françoise Parfait; • a Master’s degree in Sociology of Art, supervised by Christophe Genin.
Career
Beginnings in writing and graffiti
Lady K discovered writing and graffiti at a very young age. She made her first tags while still in middle school. She describes writing as a form of urban scarification, comparable in visual impact to advertising panels but without commercial intent.
Her engagement with writing was also motivated by a desire to assert herself in a male-dominated environment. She considers writing not as vandalism but as an artistic practice that uses letters as autonomous visual forms.
Her most intensive period of writing activity began in 1997. By her second year at the Beaux-Arts, she had fully committed herself to writing in urban space. During this period, she took significant risks, including a serious accident involving a third rail in the Paris metro, in which she injured her hand and narrowly avoided being struck by a train.
Lady K distinguishes her practice from traditional graffiti and uses the term “writting” to describe a rigorous and disciplined exploration of letters rather than decorative graffiti.
Studio practice and artistic research
Alongside her urban practice, Lady K developed a studio-based body of work involving painting, sculpture, photography, and video. She devised her own techniques, including droping, a method consisting of spraying circular forms of paint to produce diffusion and expansion effects.
Her work frequently incorporates language, multilingual text, and watercolour, and questions the place of painting within street art. She often documents her urban actions through photography and video, sometimes performing interventions during daylight hours, in contrast to the traditionally nocturnal nature of graffiti.
She also developed processes that bridge street and gallery spaces, such as installing canvases on walls, painting murals over them, and later recreating these works on canvas for exhibition.
Artistic style and approach
Signature and formal evolution
Since the late 1990s, Lady K has continuously transformed her signature. She has experimented with fingerprints, inflated or padded lettering, and varying orientations of her name, allowing for multiple readings and directions within the work.
Over time, her signature incorporated references to scientific formulas and mathematical theorems, reflecting her belief that art should engage with life, knowledge, and scientific thought.
Artistic and theoretical position
Lady K defines urban writing as neither figurative nor purely abstract, but as a practice based on abstract signs that convey ideas inherent in language itself. She conceives the city as a collective textual space and a surface for visual poetry.
She uses the term “supracalligrammalistic” to describe writing that functions simultaneously as text and image in the urban environment. For her, writing constitutes both a critique of urban life and an invitation to rethink the city.
Her work also asserts a strong feminine presence in public space. She is known for painting walls while wearing dresses, high heels, and wide-brimmed hats, deliberately challenging conventional representations of graffiti writers. Her performance videos, widely shared online, further blur the boundaries between street art, performance, and visual art.
Activism and intellectual work
In 2015, Lady K wrote an artistic manifesto centred on universal happiness, gender and racial equality, and education, drawing inspiration from the pedagogy of Maria Montessori. Her reflections address architecture, politics, economics, communication, and social organisation, emphasising awareness, knowledge, and understanding.
In 2019, following the appearance of anti-femicide posters in Paris, she participated in actions to repair and re-paste feminist slogans, notably alongside artist and activist Marguerite Stern, combining artistic practice and political engagement.
Writing and documentation
While completing her master’s degree in sociology of art, Lady K travelled across Europe to interview artists and writers. She contributed articles and interviews to platforms such as Paris Tonkar, Hiya, and Urban Art Paris, participating in the documentation and critical discourse surrounding writing as an artistic practice.
Exhibitions, events, and works
Lady K has taken part in numerous exhibitions, festivals, and artistic events in France and abroad.
2023
Urbaines – Street Art, art gallery Le Comœdia in Brest, group exhibition of ten women artists (Mélanie Bourget, Caroline Derveaux, Julia Forma, Foufounart, Lady K, Stéphanie Kilgast, Lady M, Sêma Lao, Petite Poissone, Miss Tic), from 12 January to 1 April 2023.
Lecture by Lady K at the art gallery Le Comœdia in Brest, Saturday 4 March 2023.
2022
L’Expo des centcinquante, 2022 edition, at Les Trois Baudets and the mezzanine of Montmartre, group exhibition under the direction of the newspaper Le Chat Noir and Roslucie, Paris, from 1 to 11 December 2022.
Vacarme, group exhibition, Galerie Coucke at La Condition publique, Roubaix, from 16 September to 17 December 2022.
District 13 Art Fair, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, from 15 to 18 September 2022, live painting performances on delivery-area walls.
Rur graffiti, Rural Arts Festival, Nogent-le-Rotrou, from 10 to 11 September 2022.
It’s street art time, group exhibition at the Shack, Paris, with Jérôme Mesnager, Ardif, Berthet One, Cofee, Seb Toussaint, Lady K, OakOak, from 24 June to 30 September 2022.
152 Writers, Saint-Léonard-et-Saint-Martin Chapel, Croissy-sur-Seine, from 20 to 27 June 2022.
Urban Encounters of Nancy, May 2022.
Street Art au Comœdia, art gallery Le Comœdia, Brest, from 28 April to 23 July 2022.
Lille Art’Up, group exhibition at the Grand Palais of Lille, from 10 to 13 March 2022.
Transition, les portes, Amiens, from March to September 2022.
Carte sur table, group exhibition, Le Cabinet d’Amateurs, 11th arrondissement of Paris, from 10 to 20 March 2022.
Logarythmes, solo exhibition, Le Lavo//Matik, 13th arrondissement of Paris, from 21 January to 5 February 2022.
2021
Performance for Roger Dubuis and Lamborghini, Cannes.
Museum of Graffiti, Wynwood, Miami, United States.
Mister Freeze, Toulouse.
Octobre Rose, Toulouse.
Unframed, Heerle, Netherlands, from 27 August to 5 September 2021.
Galerie LTK First Floor, Place Louis Imbach, Angers, September 2021.
Art et Sport, la rencontre, Saint-Jean-de-Monts, from 11 July to 29 August 2021.
La Place sur Seine 2021, Paris Plages, from 10 July to 22 August 2021, with a special Lady K week from 21 to 27 July, inviting Sista and Zoia.
L’Expo des 150, Villa Radet, Montmartre, group exhibition under the direction of the newspaper Le Chat Noir, curated by Ambra Pelletier, Paris, from 21 to 24 May 2021.
Transition, ephemeral museum of street art of Abbeville, Rue des Tilleuls, from 19 May to 30 August 2021.
2020
Group exhibition at Galerie Perahia, Paris.
The Fence, Yard 5, Berlin.
Zoo Art Show 2020, Lyon.
Jeu de cartes – 54 street artists, deck of 52 cards plus 2 jokers in support of the Téléthon, 22 November 2020.
Come have a tea with us!, eight women artists, Cité de Refuge, 13th arrondissement of Paris, from 3 to 23 October 2020.
Destin scellé, group exhibition, Mains d’Œuvres, Saint-Ouen, from 10 to 20 September 2020.
Atomik Lab II, The Atomik Nation and Fluctuart, Paris, 7 February 2020.
Notfoundgallery, Moscow.
2019
Le Lavoir, group exhibition, Carrières-sur-Seine.
Subway maps, Urban Spree, Yard 5, Berlin.
Dirty 4 Handz, exhibition at the Oppidum space opposite the Carreau du Temple, Paris, group exhibition by invitation of Psyckoze, from 11 to 18 December 2019.
Graffiti, Artrimoine in Sologne, 6th Biennial of Contemporary Art, Salbris, Boulevard de la République, July 2019.
2018
Le MUR 93 #2, Saint-Denis, opposite the market hall, with Psyckoze, from 17 November 2018 to 18 January 2019.
Filmography
Lady K appears in the documentary film 3.22 Art sous pression (2007), directed by Marc Verdenet and distributed by Sony.
References
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