Born in 1973 in Lyon
Lives and works in Paris.
Graduated of ESAG Peninghen

Profiled against the deep red, dark night sky are the strange silhouettes of wind pumps, cold, metallic monsters with mouths open, ready to devour and grind up the living.  Their alignment structures the composition vertically, accentuating the setting in which suspended fragments of limp, detached flesh hang.  This nightmarish vision is typical of the works of the artist, whose every painting seizes the viewer’s eye, inspiring unease and questioning.                           
She explores all the possibilities of figurative painting in order to express her perception of the world.  The body occupies a central role, a tense body striving to resist the forces constraining it, a body fitted with a prosthesis that dilates and contracts in an attempt to escape its destiny.

Exhibitions (selection)

2016 
"Je t'âme" Galerie Patricia Dorfmann, Paris.

2010
"La Belle peinture est derrière nous", French Institue, Istanbul, Turkey.
"Dynasty", exposition du Musée national d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris et du Palais de Tokyo.
"Riders", galerie Polad-Hardouin, Paris.
"Don’t cry for bees" Galerie Polad-Hardouin, Paris.
2009
"Holy Destruction", galerie Polad-Hardouin, Paris.
2007-2008
Galerie Trafic, Ivry.

Fairs

2006-2007-2008
Slick, Paris.
2006
Start, Strasbourg.
2008
Salon du dessin contemporain, Paris.
2010
Chic Dessin, Paris.

Publications

2005
"Book Ricol Painter", textes de François Pinault et de Jacques Lizé
2007
Galerie Trafic, Ivry, catalogue, texte d’Anne Malherbe
2009
"Holy Destruction", galerie Polad-Hardouin, Paris, catalogue, textes de Philippe Dagen, Adrian Dannatt, et Christian Malycha
2010
"Don’t cry for bees" Galerie Polad-Hardouin, Paris, catalogue, texte de Molly Mine
"Raphaëlle Ricol", Texte de Philippe Dagen, Montreuil-sous- Bois, Lienart éditions.
"Dynasty", catalogue du Musée national d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris et du Palais de Tokyo

Movie

2008
"Elles m’amusent" directed by R. Ricol (durée 24 min), France 5.