Anaël Pigeat is an art critic and journalist who graduated from the Courtauld Institute. She served as editor-in-chief of the magazine Art Press from 2011 to 2018, before joining the team at the monthly The Art Newspaper France as editor-at-large. She also contributes to the culture section of Paris Match and appears as a commentator on France Culture.

Since 2020, she has created, produced, and hosted the Phonomaton podcast. She is the author of several books, including Cinéma Martial Raysse (Les Presses du Réel), L’Art en mouvement (La Martinière), Effervescence de la peinture dans l’art contemporain (Flammarion), and Alice Neel (Flammarion).

Anaël Pigeat has also curated several exhibitions, including “Entre tes yeux et les images que j’y vois” at the Pernod Ricard Foundation in 2022, “Dana Schutz, le monde visible” at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, and “Studio Conversations” at David Zwirner Paris in 2025.

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