Jérôme Lagarrigue (born August 18, 1973[1]) is a French painter living in New York City.
[2][3][4] Lagarrigue was born in Paris, to a French father who was an illustrator and painter, and an American mother who was a journalist and writer.
As a child, he was schooled in France, but spent summers in New York City, where he now lives.
[1][5] Two years after graduation, Parsons School of Design made Lagarrigue professor of drawing and painting.
[6] In 2002, Lagarrigue won the John Steptoe Award for New Talent for his illustrations in Freedom Summer.