Marie-Voahangy Ramariavelo Grenier was born in Paris the 25th of March, 1957.

She grew up mostly in Madagascar and North Africa and then traveled to Scandinavia and South America before attending college in Europe.

She became a lower school teacher in 1984 and taught in France, Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean and Houston, Texas, at the Awty International School.

In 1994, she found unused painting materials bought by her husband and discovered a new passion: painting.

In 1995, she moved to Paris and begins to sell her paintings. In June 1999, at her first solo exhibition in Paris at l’Essec, she sells 20 out of 70 paintings in a few days.

She has done numerous exhibitions since, including at the French Senate in Paris in 2006, at the Museum of Americas in Doral, Florida, in 2009, at La Maison de l’Unesco in Paris or at The Williams Tower in Houston, in 2011.

She lives currently in Houston, Texas and enjoys ceramics, jewelry designing, sewing and painting on fabric or canvas.