Aline Zalko is a French illustrator and painter living and working in Paris. She began her career while studying at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where her illustrations were published in The New York Times, a start that set the tone for a practice that has moved easily between commissioned work and fine art ever since. Her illustrations have appeared in Le Figaro, Le Monde, and Télérama, in advertising campaigns, and in books published by Flammarion and Fayard.

Alongside this editorial work, Zalko has exhibited in Paris and beyond, including shows at Galerie Dérouillon, Galerie du Jour Agnès B, and Galerie Arts Factory, the Drawing Now fair, and Huberty & Breyne.

She moves fluidly between media, colored pencil, pastel, ink, and acrylic, choosing each for what it can do: pencil for its earthiness, acrylic for the speed it allows on large-format paintings. Across both her paintings and drawings, recurring threads emerge: ephemerality and metamorphosis, women in pop culture, portraits of children and teenagers, obsolete objects, and the raw power of nature, often rendered in intense, exuberant color.