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Valérie Belin

Valérie Belin is a French artist born in Boulogne-Billancourt in 1964 who lives and works in Paris. She studied at the École nationale des beaux-arts in Bourges and completed a postgraduate degree (DEA) in philosophy of art at Panthéon-Sorbonne University; very early on she chose photography as her field of exploration. Her work is grounded in a rigorous reflection on the properties of the medium and its capacity to reveal the presence of reality through the imprint of light.

Timeline

  1. 1964Nace en Boulogne-Billancourt.⧉
  2. 1983Comienza su formación en la École nationale des beaux-arts de Bourges.⧉
  3. 1999Con Bodybuilders introduce la figura humana en su obra.⧉
  4. 2000Recibe el CCF Award (HSBC Foundation for Photography Award).⧉
  5. 2015Recibe el Prix Pictet.⧉
  6. 2017Es nombrada Officier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres.⧉
  7. 2024Es elegida miembro de la Académie des beaux-arts.⧉
  8. 2026Expone individualmente en el Museu Picasso de Barcelona.⧉

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