Mona Varichon is an artist and translator. After studying sociology at Paris Descartes University, she received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from ArtCenter in Los Angeles. Her work uses advertisement, social media, art history and popular art forms to both chronicle and infiltrate our present moment. Her photographs, films and performances archive, pay homage to or contextualize major cultural events as well as intimate experiences, with a focus on making them shareable. Her pieces circulate on YouTube, in various stores, mailboxes, interiors, publications, cinemas and art spaces.
Recent exhibits include Air de Paris, the Capc Musée d’art contemporain in Bordeaux, the Van Gogh Foundation in Arles, the Villa Arson in Nice, The Vanity Gallery, Bel Ami and Kristina Kite in Los Angeles, April April in New York and the Chichas de la Pensée in Pantin. Her films have been screened at the Festival Les Écrans Documentaires in Vitry-sur-Seine, Move Festival at the Centre Pompidou, l’Etna cinema in Montreuil, the Egyptian Theatre and REDCAT in Los Angeles. She translated the catalogs of artists Pippa Garner, Betye Saar, Christina Ramberg and Cécile B. Evans as well as the memoirs of filmmakers George and Mike Kuchar into French. She won the Prix Ricard 2024.

Mona Varichon was born in 1989. She lives and works in Paris.