Mariette Teisserenc


Mariette Teisserenc is a French visual artist, painter and engraver. She is also known as "Teisse" or "Teisse-Renc".
She was born in Grand-Couronne, Seine-Maritime. Trained as a Graphic designer at Düsseldorf's School of Decorative Arts, she gave up a career in the advertising industry in 1978 to dedicate herself to her artistic practice.
As an abstract painter and advocate for recognition of women artists in France and abroad, she was the President of the French women artists' group "".
Her work is characterized by clean shapes, strong lines and the invariable use of the colour black. It expresses tensions between forms and the search for equilibrium.
In 1969, Teisserenc was awarded a Second Prize for Graphic-Design from the company Henkel & Cie GmbH. In 1971, she received first prize from the Nordwestdeutsche Austellungsgesellschaft mbH. In 1983, she received a silver medal from the Bilan de l'Art Contemporain Foundation.
In 1996, the 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. She exhibited the results of her work in 1998 at Riverin-Arlogos Gallery, Eastman, Canada.
Teisserenc was president of the French feminist artists collective.
In 2012, Teisserenc designed the stained glass windows of Saint-Peter and Saint-Paul Church in Brûlon-sur-Sarthe, France.

Selected exhibitions