Born 1986, Marie-Claire Brehaut holds a BFA from the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts. In 2009 she was the recipient of the Bickerton Widdowson Trust Memorial Scholarship in Fine Arts, and also the New Zealand Federation of Graduate Women Trust Award. In 2008 she was awarded the Sawtell-Turner Prize in Painting.
Brehaut has been in groups shows around New Zealand since 2008. She lives and works in Christchurch.