Margaux Derhy was born in France to a French mother and a Moroccan-Berber father. She studied in London at Central Saint Martins and completed an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art. She currently lives and works between Paris and Massa, Morocco.

Her practice explores memory, transmission, and the complexities of pluridentity through painting and embroidery. Working with photographic archives - particularly from her paternal family who left Morocco in 1967 - she examines what is lost, silenced, or transformed through migration and assimilation.

In 2022, she established an embroidery studio in Massa. The studio operates on principles of shared authorship: collaborators actively contribute to artistic decisions and are fully credited, challenging the art world's tendency to hide collaborative labor.

She has attended residencies including Institut Français Tanger (2025), Jaal Residency (2024), and Al Maqam Marrakech (2021). Recent exhibitions include 1-54 Marrakech and London (2025, 2024), Akka and Menart Fair Paris (2024, 2023), and "D'une Rive à l'Autre" at Eden Casablanca (2023).

Beyond her studio practice, Derhy founded Le Cercle de l'Art in 2020, a community supporting female francophone artists, and has been running the Massa Stories artist residency since 2019.

Represented by Tabari Artspace, Dubai.