Valerie Belin

Artist Valerie Belin was born in 1964 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. She studied at the École Beaux-Arts de Versailles, the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Bourges and finally at the Université de Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne. Initially influenced by minimalism and conceptual art, she eventually turned to photography as her preferred medium. Belin conceptualizes the use of light, matter, and the conception of a “body,” referring to objects and beings in general. With these elements, she explores the photograph’s capacity of representation and transmutation. Thus, the artist’s aesthetic developed as subsequent series that used these tropes to explore contemporary society. She does this within the framework of her overall concentration on investigating photography and the “body.”

Valérie Belin has exhibited her work around the world. She was the winner of the Prix Pictet in 2015 (Disorder.) She became an officer of France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2017. In this same year, the Three Shadows Photography Art Center in Beijing, the SCôP in Shanghai, and the Chengdu Museum co-produced a touring exhibition for the artist. In 2019, Valérie Belin unveiled a significant new series at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.