Valérie Belin
1964 - Present
Valérie Belin is a French art photographer. She lives and works in Paris.
Biography
Valérie Belin was born in Boulogne-Billancourt. She trained at the École Beaux-arts de Versailles from 1983 to 1985 and at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Art de Bourges from 1985 to 1988, and then obtained a diploma in advanced studies in the philosophy of art from the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne in 1989.
In 2015 she won the sixth Prix Pictet, the theme of which was "Disorder." That year she also had an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, entitled Unquiet Images and comprising around 30 works depicting mannequins.
Her work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris and the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris.
In 2024, a retrospective of Belin's work was featured in the annual Photo London event.
Text courtesy of Wikipedia, 2024
