NICOLAS HENRY (B.1978)

Nicolas Henry is a graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris and Cergy. He was trained in the film industry as a film director at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, Canada. He has pursued his personal work for 20 years, traveling the world to create a series of portraits of ancestors from all over the world. “Les cabanes de nos grands-parents" (Éditions Actes Sud), mixes art installations and photographic portraits. He was awarded the Popcap'16 prize for African photography. 

Institutions such as the DuSable Museum of African American History, the Musée National de l’immigration de Paris and COP 21, have praised the meaning and commitment of his artistic approach as much as its aesthetics.

In 2021, he co-founded with Floriane de Lassée the social and environmental biennale of the city of Paris and Greater Paris, Photoclimat, presenting the work of 40 NGOs and 30 artists from around the world. The next edition takes place in September 2025.

︎ @nicolas_henry_photographe

Solo Exhibitions

︎︎︎ 2023: Parvis du Musée Niteroi, organization: Institut Français Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
︎︎︎2022: Loft Galerie, solo show, Art Paris, France
︎︎︎2020: Installation for the Association "Lire et faire Lire", Place du Panthéon in Paris, France
︎︎︎2019:

• Giant installation and photographs for "Emmaüs", Place du Palais Royal in Paris, France
  
• Forecourt of the Palais de la porte dorée, Musée national d’histoire de l’immigration, Paris, France
  
• Dia de consciensia Negra, Musée Mineros, Bueno horizonte, Institut Français Rio, Brazil

︎︎︎2018:

• Jaipur Literature Festival, India
  
• Château de Carrouges - Domaine national du Mont Saint-Michel, France
  

︎︎︎2017: DuSable Museum of African American History, Chicago, United States
︎︎︎2016: Outdoor path on the coulée verte of Nice, Centre dramatique national de Nice, France
︎︎︎2014:

• Domaine National de Saint-Cloud and Musée des Avelines, France
  
• Goeun Museum of Photography of Busan, South Korea
  
• Alliance française de Daejeon and Gwanju, South Korea
  

︎︎︎2012: Exhibition at Avignon TGV Station organized by Gare et Connexions, Avignon, France
︎︎︎2011: "Wall for" giant image projection on the cliffs of Cassis, France

Group Shows

︎︎︎2021: Founder of the Photoclimat Biennale, IUCN World Congress, Paris and Grand Paris, La Seyne-sur-Mer, Ajaccio, France
︎︎︎2020: A4 Museum, Cheng Du, Shan Museum, Wuhan, China
︎︎︎2019:

• MACAAL, Matérial Insanity exhibition, Marrakech, Morocco
  
• LiShui photography Biannual Exhibition, China        
  

︎︎︎2018: Dakar Biennale, Gorée island, Senegal

Monographic Publications

• Monograph "Cabanes imaginaires autour du monde", Éditions Albin Michel, 2016
  
• Monograph "Les cabanes de nos grands-parents", Éditions Actes Sud, 2011
  

Collections

• FRAC Guyane – MACCAL - DRAC Normandie, private collections, etc.

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