MADELEINE ROGER-LACAN

Born in 1993 in Paris, France
Lives and works in Paris, France
https://madeleinerogerlacan.com/ 

Madeleine Roger-Lacan is a painter who graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2018. In 2016, she was invited to attend the Slade School of Fine Art in London — a pivotal moment that grounded her painting practice in an intimate experience, where narrative, the body, and fantasy became primary materials. Her work, based on figurative motifs, explores layers of consciousness, particularly in relation to the complexity of desire and the imaginary realm of female sexuality.

In her practice, she merges painting, sculpture, and installation, often disrupting the traditional framework of the canvas: she cuts, glues, assembles, paints directly on walls or wood, and plays with pictorial conventions to expose their underlying tensions. Her work draws from a sensual imagination, references to popular culture, words embedded in the material, and a constant focus on the body—its absences, its transformations, its conflicting impulses.

She has taken part in numerous group exhibitions in France and internationally, notably at the Centre Pompidou-Metz with Copistes (2025) and Lacan, when art meets psychoanalysis (2024); at Fondation Ricard with Entre tes yeux et les images que j’y vois (2022); at the Centre d’art de la Malmaison in Cannes with Luxe, Calme et Volupté (2025); and at the Musée Matisse in Nice in Cinématisse (2019). Her work is part of the collection of the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain des Sables-d’Olonne. In 2025, Madeleine Roger-Lacan is the recipient of the Pierre Cardin Prize in Painting.

She is represented by Galerie Eigen+Art in Germany, where she presented her exhibition Lay down with me in 2024. At Galerie frank elbaz in Paris, she exhibited Twister (2020) and Painting under my skirt (2022). In October 2025, she will present her first solo exhibition with Galerie Jousse Entreprise in Paris.