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.

Her work has been presented at numerous art fairs and institutions, including, most recently, the ifa-Galerie in Berlin (Diaspora Wonderland, 2026), the French Institute of Morocco (État de Passage, 2026), as well as the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair (Marrakech, 2024, 2025, 2026; London), Menart Fair, and AKAA Art & Design Fair (Paris). She is represented by Tabari Artspace (Dubai).

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.