Marie KVK is an international artist born in Minneapolis, USA, in the 1980s. She officially began her painting career in New York City in 2004 after completing four years of university in Minneapolis, USA, and Madrid, Spain, in 2002. The artist has traveled the globe, working for extended periods in the urban environments of New York City (2004-2009), Paris (2009-2010), and London (2010-2014). Since 2014, her painting studio, Atelier Marie KVK, has been located in Provence, France, where she lives with her family.

Marie KVK's paintings are 100% hand-painted. They are ultra-contemporary and exquisitely finished on the highest quality canvases. Working full-time, she produces approximately 50 paintings per year. These paintings are ready to hang framed or unframed (and sometimes double-framed like the Mona Lisa canvases - Louvre Size). The PIXELS series focuses on strong and beautiful women, both real and fictional. These include icons of the past and present, gorgeous Instagrammers, cartoon characters, and of course her most popular painting, Mona Lisa in PIXELS, which are in very limited edition, all individually hand-painted and all unique. Marie KVK's paintings reveal the simplest modern element, the PIXEL, which can contain a suggestion of a deeper discovery, or the darkness of detail. The very similar, but completely abstract, VALENTINA series is a joyful series about color and balance. VALENTINA paintings can be found in Roche Bobois boutiques worldwide.