Margaux Valengin
Discovery#87
Egon Investment Scores
Liquidity
2/10
How easily works can be bought and sold at auction
Institutional
4/10
Museum collections, biennials, and institutional recognition
Momentum
6/10
Recent price trends, gallery moves, and market buzz
Discovery
1/10
Undervaluation opportunity relative to peer artists
Risk
5/10
Investment risk factors — higher means more volatile
Market Position
- Pricing
- Price Trajectory
- Upward - artist has moved from emerging art fairs (Spring Break) to established gallery representation and international exhibition venues
- Temporal Context
- 2020 range: $1,000-$3,500 for works on paper; 2024-2025: Gallery-controlled pricing with expected increases based on enhanced representation and institutional attention
- Primary Market 2020
- Note
- All works listed as SOLD, indicating strong collector interest at this price point
- Range
- $1,000 - $3,500
- Context
- Works on paper and small canvases
- Examples
- Le Mur: $1,000Canap: $1,500Wouls: $1,500My Mother As A Dog: $2,000Crab Hand: $2,100Fire Alarm: $3,500La Cîme des Arbres: $3,500
- Current Estimated Range 2024 2025
- Note
- Pricing not publicly disclosed; contact Galerie PACT for current availability and pricing
- Large Canvas
- $20,000 - $40,000 (estimated)
- Works on Paper
- $3,000 - $8,000 (estimated)
- Small to Medium Canvas
- $8,000 - $20,000 (estimated)
- Liquidity
- Score
- 2
- Assessment
- Very limited secondary market; works held by collectors, not actively traded at auction
- Market Depth
- Thin - primary market sales only
- Annual Transaction Volume
- Fewer than 5 publicly recorded transactions annually
- Comparables
- Peer Artists
- Julie Curtiss (curator/supporter, similar surrealist-feminist themes)
- Dorian Gaudin (exhibited alongside)
- Contemporary female surrealist painters working with body imagery and psychoanalytic themes
- Market Segment
- Emerging contemporary painting, neo-surrealism, feminist figuration
- Collector Base
- Type
- Early-stage collectors, contemporary art enthusiasts, feminist art collectors
- Collecting Motivation
- Emerging talent acquisition, thematic interest in feminist surrealism and body politics
- Geographic Concentration
- New York, Paris, London
- Primary Market
- Availability
- Works available through Galerie PACT (Paris), occasional availability through Artsy and secondary galleries
- Gallery Controlled
- True
- Collector Acquisition
- Direct gallery purchase, art fair booths (NADA), selected group exhibitions
- Auction History
- Note
- Artist is gallery-represented with works sold primarily through primary market channels
- Primary Market Artist
- True
- Secondary Market Status
- Limited to no traditional auction presence at major houses (Christie's, Sotheby's, Phillips)
- Market Position
- Emerging contemporary painter with growing gallery support and critical attention
- Investment Outlook
- Strengths
- Prestigious education (Royal College of Art)Strong Paris gallery representation (Galerie PACT)Artforum critical attention (2020)Competitive residency (Sharpe-Walentas)Thematically relevant work (feminist discourse, body politics)International exhibition reach (Beijing, Berlin, Paris, NYC, London)
- Risk Level
- High (emerging artist, limited track record)
- Weaknesses
- No museum collections identifiedLimited secondary marketNo major institutional solo exhibitionsRelatively early career stage (10 years post-graduation)No presence at top-tier art fairs (Art Basel, Frieze)
- Growth Potential
- Moderate to High - strong gallery representation, critical attention from Artforum, institutional exhibition at Asia Art Center Beijing
- Key Indicators to Watch
- Museum acquisitions (first public collection)Gallery representation expansion (potential US gallery representation)Art fair presence expansion beyond NADASecondary market emergenceSolo museum exhibitions
Institutional Presence
- Assessment
- Limited institutional validation at this career stage. No confirmed museum collections, but strong gallery support and exhibition history at respectable venues. Asia Art Center Beijing represents significant international gallery validation. Needs museum acquisitions and major institutional exhibitions to advance validation score.
- Exhibitions
- Solo Exhibitions
Title Year Dates Venue Location Significance Upcoming Solo Show 2026 February - April 2026 Galerie PACT Paris, France Continued gallery support The River 2023 June - July 2023 Galerie PACT Paris, France — Hues d'emportement 2022 March - April 2022 Y2K Group New York, USA — Sang Tu Erres 2020 — Galerie PACT Paris, France Breakthrough solo show with major critical attention Spring Break Art Show 2020 — — New York, USA Curated by established artist Julie Curtiss In the field of Semolina 2017 September 16 - November 4, 2017 Union Gallery London, UK — - Art Fair Presence
Year Fair Gallery 2022 NADA New York Galerie PACT 2021 NADA Miami Galerie PACT 2021 Art Brussels PACT - Group Exhibitions
Title Year Venue Location — 2024 Steve Turner Gallery Los Angeles, USA Art for Tibet 2024 Van Der Plas Gallery New York, USA On the Voyage 2023 Asia Art Center Beijing, China 20 Years Anniversary Exhibition 2023 Union Gallery London, UK Tu es métamorphose II 2022 Galerie PACT Paris, France Jung Lovers 2022 Soloway Gallery New York, USA Heedlessly 2021 Galerie PACT Paris, France Paroles de Cheval 2021 Haras National du Pin Normandy, France Imagining Reality 2021 Future Gallery Berlin, Germany GDPR: Group Display of Paintings and Renderings 2018 SIGNAL Brooklyn, NYC, USA Night Realms 2018 Arusha Gallery Edinburgh, UK — 2017 Jealous Gallery London, UK
- Museum Collections
- Note
- No museum collections identified through research; artist is at stage where institutional acquisitions typically begin
- Awards and Recognition
- Year
- 2022
- Award
- Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program
- Significance
- Prestigious competitive residency program in Brooklyn
Career & Biography
- Identity
- Name
- Margaux Valengin
- Studio
- Sharpe-Walentas Studio, Brooklyn, NY
- Birth Year
- 1992
- Birth Place
- Péronne, France
- Nationality
- French
- Current Location
- Queens, New York, USA
- Education
- Institutions
Institution Year Location Degree École nationale supérieure de la Cambre (ENSAV La Cambre) 2014 Brussels, Belgium BA in Painting Royal College of Art 2016 London, United Kingdom MA in Fine Art — — New York — - Prestigious Residencies
- Year
- 2022
- Program
- Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY
- Significance
- Highly competitive NYC artist residency program
- Career Stage
- Emerging mid-career (approx. 10 years professional practice since 2016 graduation)
- Working Methods
- Collage-based process rooted in physical and digital archival research, assembling imagery from scientific illustration and internet stock images
- Artistic Philosophy
- Explores gendered malaise, female experience, body horror, and questions of class and gender through chimeric universes blending European art history with contemporary concerns
Artistic Profile
- Style
- Description
- Oscillates between figuration and abstraction, creating chimeric universes of troubling hybrids and uncanny illusions
- Color Palette
- Not extensively documented, but examples suggest muted tones, flesh tones, atmospheric colors
- Formal Qualities
- Warped bodies, fragmented figures, hybrid forms, layered imagery
- Visual Characteristics
- Mixing of organic forms and body fragmentsMacabre, perverse anatomical representationsVictorian-era illustrated physiological study aestheticDreamscape veering into nightmareCollage-based compositional approach
- Evolution
- Early Period 2017 2020
- Focus
- Surrealist body imagery, female body fragmentation, animal-human hybrids, visceral anatomical exploration
- Key Works
- 'The Newly Born Woman', 'Cosmic Inversion', 'Mors Hardcord' (all 2020)
- Recent Period 2023 Present
- Shift
- Exploration of car culture, American dream mythology, highway infrastructure, increased abstraction
- Series
- 'The River' series (2023) featuring highways, car crashes, urban surfaces
- Evolution Note
- Maintaining core themes of bodily presence and societal constraint while expanding subject matter to American capitalism and infrastructure
- Influences
- Cultural Context
- Post-#MeToo era, whisper networks, toxic masculinity discourse; American car culture and infrastructure politics (Robert Moses)
- Artistic Influences
- Female Surrealist painters (Leonora Carrington)
- European art history (Victorian medical illustration)
- Neo-pop painting-image relationships (Kippenberger, Baldessari, Kelley - referenced in gallery text)
- Intellectual Influences
- C.G. Jung (psychoanalysis)Hélène Cixous (feminist theory)Catherine Clément (feminist theory)Psychoanalytic theory
- Visual Language
- Descriptors
- UnsettlingMysteriousAlluring yet disquietingVisceral (literally and figuratively)Oneiric (dreamlike)ChimericUncanny
- Emotional Register
- Wariness, menace, anxiety, unease, feminist resistance
- Themes and Subjects
- Primary Themes
- Gendered malaise and female experienceBody horror and corporeal anxietyQuestions of class and gender under capitalismPsychoanalytic exploration (Jungian influence)Female body as site of invasion and controlCar culture and American dream (2023 'The River' series)Human-animal hybrids and transformation
- Recurring Subjects
- Female bodies (severed, hollowed, fragmented)Animals (dogs, horses, birds, greyhounds)Organs and visceraPlants and floraEquestrian imageryScientific/medical illustration elementsHighways and automobiles (recent work)
- Theoretical Frameworks
- Feminist theory (references Hélène Cixous and Catherine Clément's 'The Newly Born Woman')Psychoanalysis (Jungian training)Critical theory of capitalism and gender
- Movements and Periods
- Art Historical Lineage
- European Surrealism (particularly female surrealists like Leonora Carrington), Feminist Art Movement, Contemporary Figurative Painting
- Primary Classification
- Contemporary Neo-Surrealism
- Secondary Classifications
- Feminist ArtBody Art / Body HorrorFigurative AbstractionPsychoanalytic Art
- Techniques and Mediums
- Scale
- Small to medium scale works (example dimensions: 30 x 22 inches for works on paper, 50 x 36 inches for canvases, 51 x 38 cm for small canvases)
- Process
- Collage-based process rooted in physical and digital archival research, assembling imagery from scientific illustration and internet stock images
- Supports
- CanvasPaper (works on paper)Linen
- Primary Medium
- Painting (oil and acrylic)
Critical Reception
- Critical Reception
- Major Reviews
- Year
- 2020
- Exhibition
- Sang Tu Erres at Galerie PACT
- Key Themes
- Gendered malaise, body horror, female experience, surrealist aesthetic compared to Leonora Carrington
- Publication
- Artforum
- Significance
- Critical validation from top-tier art publication
- Press Coverage
Year Publication 2022 Two Coats of Paint 2020 Two Coats of Paint — Art Viewer - Critical Positioning
- Emerging painter working in neo-surrealist feminist tradition with psychoanalytic undertones
- Comparative References
- Critics compare work to Leonora Carrington (surrealist), references to Hélène Cixous (feminist theory)
- Curatorial Support
- Notable Curators
Name Exhibition Julie Curtiss — Jennifer Sullivan and Jack Arthur Wood Jung Lovers at Soloway Gallery, 2022 Kristian Day Night Realms at Arusha Gallery, 2018
- Publications and Media
- Monographs
- None identified
- Artist Website
- https://www.margauxvalengin.com/
- Scholarly Attention
- Limited - primarily art press coverage, not yet academic publications
- Social Media Presence
- Active (Instagram implied through gallery connections)
Gallery & Representation
- Fair Presence
- Tier
- Emerging artist fairs (NADA), alternative fairs (Spring Break)
- Trajectory
- Building toward mid-tier fairs; not yet at Art Basel, Frieze, or Armory level
- Fairs Attended
- NADA New York (2022)NADA Miami (2021)Art Brussels (2021)Spring Break Art Show NYC (2020)
- Representation
- Online Presence
Platform Status Artsy Active profile with works available Artsper Works available for purchase - Primary Gallery
- Name
- Galerie PACT
- Tier
- Emerging/Mid-tier Paris gallery
- Since
- 2020 (first solo show)
- Website
- https://galeriepact.com/artists/margaux-valengin/
- Location
- Paris, France
- Relationship
- Strong - multiple solo shows (2020, 2023, 2026 upcoming), art fair representation (NADA, Art Brussels)
- Secondary Galleries
Name Location Relationship Union Gallery London, UK Ongoing - first solo show 2017, group show 2023 Y2K Group New York, USA Solo show 2022 Jealous Gallery London, UK Print publisher and exhibitions Drawer New York, USA Works sold through platform
- Geographic Reach
- Assessment
- Strong transatlantic presence with emerging Asian market entry
- Primary Markets
- ParisNew YorkLondon
- Emerging Markets
- Beijing (Asia Art Center presence)Berlin
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