Biography
Cyrus Cornut, 46, Paris.
Photographer, Architect of training, his work is oriented first of all on the city, its plastic, its evolutions, its traces, its voids, and on the human behaviors that it induces.
In 2006, his first work on Chinese cities was exhibited at the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles under the artistic direction of Raymond Depardon. He was a member of the Picturetank cooperative agency which he joined in 2007, until its closure in 2017. In 2010, with the France 14 group, he exhibited "travelling to the outskirts", work on the landscapes of mass housing in Île of France.
From2011 his research also focuses on the place of plants in the urban landscape, but also to rural landscapes. Thus born "Alberstein's trip"collaborative work that attempts the synthesis between different questions about the human, its natural environment, planned or relational and the time frame in which it evolves.
He is now developing a 4x5 medium format work that allows him to take a slow look at urban evolutions, in Asia, as in France, as well as a more plastician body of work mixing drawing, engraving and photography.
Exhibitions
2024 Chongqing at Les Boutographies, 4th to 26th may, Montpellier
2024 unRepresented by a ppr oc he, Friday 5 until Sunday 7 April 2024, Le Molière, Paris
2024 La France sous leurs yeux, 18th march-23th june, group exhibition, BNF Mitterrand, Paris
2022 Eyes on Main Street, Historic Downtown Wilson, North Carolina, oct-nov 2022
2022 Icônes habitées, Gares et Connexions, SNCF, Gares de Brest et Lorient. TEMAPROD
2021 HSBC Grant Exhibition, "Chongqing", Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris 15e (may). France
2021 HSBC Grant Exhibition, "Chongqing", Rencontres d’Arles (july/sept), France
2021 Exhibition, "Le refuge" , Les Boutographies hors les murs, Montpellier (may), France
2021 Group Exhibition, Guangzhou triennal (avril/mai), China
2020 Group exhibition « Vive la France », La Galerie DUREV, Paris.
2020 Double exhibition : "Le refuge", and Lost in the forest, Promenades photographiques de Vendôme
2019 Group exhibition, Florence et Damien Bachelot Collection
2019 Polyptyque Art Fair, Fisheye Gallery, Marseille
2019 Exhibition "Chongqing", Fisheye Gallery, Paris
2019 Double Exhibition, "Chongqing" and "Travelling to the outskirts", Festival du Regard, Cergy-Pontoise
2018 Exhibition Chongqing, 1st price Singularlens Award 2018
2015 to 2017 Prime Minister official Photographer
2015 to 2018, "Pour une poignée de degrés", Dunkerque-Lille-Roubaix-Villeneuve d’Ascq
2015 Exhibition "Les villes sont les Océans", Festival de l’Œil Urbain, Corbeil Essonne.
2014 Exhibition "Le voyage d’Alberstein", Centre Atlantique de la Photographie, Brest
2013 Exhibition "Le voyage d’Alberstein", Promenades photographiques de Vendôme
2012 Three group exhibitions "Les Grands Ensembles", Lyon/ Marne la Vallée/Caen.
2012 Exhibition Singapour International Photography Festival, Singapour.
2012 Exhibition "Travelling to the outskirts", Festival Itinéraire des photographes Voyageurs, Bordeaux
2011 Exhibition "Travelling to the outskirts", France 14, Commanderie Saint Jean, Corbeil-Essonnes.
2011 Exhibition "Travelling to the outskirts", Arsenal de Metz, Montpellier, Étonnants Voyageurs
2010 Exhibition "Travelling to the outskirts" France 14, BNF Mitterrand, Paris Photography month
2010 Exhibition "Travelling to the outskirts" France 14, Rencontres d’Arles.
2010 Exhibition "Cities are like oceans", Head On Sydney et Fotofreo off, Perth, Australie.
2007 Exhibition "Urban Oceans" Paris-Beijing Photo Gallery, Pékin, Dashanze 798.
2006 Exhibition "China : Cities are like oceans", Rencontres d’Arles/art director Raymond Depardon
2005 Exhibition "Visas de l’ANI" prize winners, Galerie du Bar Floréal, Paris.
Awards & residencies
- Laureate of the HSBC, 2021
- Shortlisted for the Camera Clara award, 2020
- Mutation Residency. Transit/Montpellier 2019
- ND Award 2018 1st price.
- Shortlisted for the CameraClara award, 2018
- 1st price Singularlens 2018
- Laureate of the « Albums du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle » grant, 2014
- Laureate visa de l’ANI 2012, Promenades Photographiques de Vendôme
- Shorlisted at the HSBC photography award, 2011
- Laureate of the Visas del’ANI, 2006
- Villa Tamaris residency, Seyne-sur-Mer, 2006
Collections
- Florence et Damien Bachelot Collection
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France Collection, Paris
- Arsenal de Metz Collection, France
- HSBC photography Collection
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