Ariane Laroux

Ariane Laroux (born 12 April 1957) is a Franco-Swiss painter, draughtsman and printmaker.

She is known for her black and white drawings, using void and empty spaces in her artworks.

Laroux was born in Paris, France, and spent her childhood with her parents in Montmartre in the studio of the Red House of Artists, Rue Ordener, and with her grandparents at Square de la Tour Maubourg near Les Invalides.

[1][failed verification] After studying at the College of Verneuil-sur-Seine, she gained a degree in history at the Sorbonne and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Geneva.

[citation needed] From 1979 to 2017, Laroux exhibited at, among others, the Alice Pauli Gallery in Lausanne,[2][3][4][5] the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne,[6] Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, in Ditesheim,[7][8] the gallery Eric Franck (Geneva-Berlin-Basel),[9] the Michel Foëx Gallery (Geneva),[10] Museum Country and Val de Charmey,[11] the Museum of the Resistance in Lyon, the Roswitha Hartmann Gallery (Zurich), the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (Marseilles, 2006), the Musée de l'Homme (Paris, 2008),[12] the British Museum (London 2016).