Mariette Teisserenc, born in Grand-Couronne (Seine-Maritime, France), on March 3, 1940, is a French visual artist, painter and engraver.

Trained as a Graphic designer at Düsseldorf's School of Decorative Arts (1967–1972),[1][4] she gave up a career in the advertising industry in 1978 to dedicate herself to her artistic practice.

[10] In 1969, Teisserenc was awarded a Second Prize for Graphic-Design from the company Henkel & Cie GmbH (Düsseldorf, West-Germany).

[1] In 1996, the Association française d’action artistique [fr] (part of the French Foreign Affairs Ministry) and the Ministry for Indigenous Affairs of Quebec awarded her a grant to travel to the Nunavik region and study the use of the ulu, a knife specific to Inuit women.

[11] Mariette Teisserenc was president of the French feminist artists collective Art et regard des femmes [fr].