Assylem Richard, Painter and Visual Artist

Assylem Richard is a visual artist, painter, and designer, born and raised in the Parisian suburbs to a French mother and a Martinican father. This dual heritage shapes a distinctive body of work at the crossroads of the personal and the collective.

An Artistic Practice Centered on Portraiture and Identity

Her artistic practice focuses on portraiture and anatomy as tools to explore identity and social dynamics. Rooted in a sociological and cultural framework, her work questions individualism and proposes a vision of the future as a collective process.

The suburban landscapes of Greater Paris (Grand Paris) with their contrasted architectures, transitional spaces, inhabitants, and cultural codes form both the backdrop and the raw material of her artistic gaze.

Exhibitions and Career in Paris

Since 2021, Assylem Richard has exhibited regularly in Paris:

• Body Soul (Galerie Voltige, 2021)  solo exhibition examining women, their bodies, and their place in society
• Superflex (Galerie Ellia, 2022) group exhibition
• Start (2023)  group show
• Head & Shoulders Campaign (2024)  artistic project addressing school bullying
• GenZ Partie 1 (Galerie Ellia, 2025) first installment of an ongoing solo project exploring Generation Z’s aesthetics and cultural codes
• Identités Plurielles (Galerie Ellia, 2025) group show as part of the 15th edition of the “Festival de la Diversité Culturelle”

Holding a Bachelor in Space Design, Assylem Richard continues to develop a practice that is at once personal and deeply collective

  committed to offering a sincere, contemporary representation of the territories and generations that shape us