bio

As a transfeminist multidisciplinary artist, Jul Maroh practices various visual and narrative mediums to question the no man's land that exists between the intimate and the collective.
Their work explores modern intimacy and its political facets, creating a mirror between characters and spectators that becomes an initiatory journey.

After studying at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts de St Luc and the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, their graphic novel, Blue Is The Warmest Color was published in 2010. This book received various awards and was adapted for film under the title La Vie d’Adèle (Palme d'Or at Cannes 2013), and translated into a dozen languages.
Jul Maroh subsequently published Skandalon, Brahms, Body Music, City & Gender and You brought me the ocean.At the same time, they were curator at the CAPC in Bordeaux, creating the spatial narrative called Procession (2014), and also co-founded the feminist collective Bd Egalité (2015).
Their book Hacker la peau (2023) - created with writer Sabrina Calvo - and addressing the theme of queer polyamory in a world becoming increasingly fascistic, also became a drawing performance on stage. This was followed by Boutonné en Jalousie (2025), a book that brings Jul back to the theme of contemporary teenage's coming out, 15 years after Blue.
Being a 2022 laureate of the Carasso Foundation, in residence at the Cité internationale des Arts in Paris and then at the Maison des Écritures in La Rochelle, Jul Maroh continues to travel for cultural and educational events, including at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, the Unicomic university conference in Spain, the Feminist Book Fort in Venice, the Bourse du Commerce in Paris, the École Européenne Supérieure de l'Image in Angoulême, and the Tomi Ungerer Museum in Strasbourg.

Their ongoing series of large gold-leaf portraits on wood, entitled "Trans Resilience" was recently exhibited at the Gender Benderinternational cultural festival in Italy.

Whether through their illustration work, commissions, their tenth graphic novel currently being written, or their wooden panels, Maroh's discourse is directly informed by their queer experience and the social issues of today's world.