[citation needed] Her father was Jean Peyrafitte Fr (1922-2017), who represented Haute-Garonne in the Pyrenees in the French Fifth Republic (1989-1998).

She moved to the United States in 1987, where she developed her career as a collagist, painter, action-painter, singer, poet and filmmaker.

[citation needed] Since 2011, Nicole Peyrafitte has been working on an open-ended series of live performances which brings together her interests, preoccupations, and practices.

Following her intuition, Peyrafitte investigates the thin line between her consciousness and unconsciousness, with a strong desire to reveal the immediate soul of that moment.

She is in the poetic lineage of Greek tragedy, Café Voltaire antics, of dada and surrealist play but with a post-modern, hip sensibility.