Evelyne Coutas

Evelyne Coutas lives and works in Paris.

She studied architecture and sculpture at l’École nationale des Beaux- Arts de Paris.

In 1983, Coutas introduced photography into her work, using light and the photosensitive properties of the silver halide process to question the representation of reality within photography. Her first photographic work, “La chambre obscure” (“The Darkened Room”) – a series of photograms created in the moonlight of her bedroom – inspired her to explore further aspects of the medium.

Combining experimentation with light and atypical photographic techniques while exploring her unique creative expression, Coutas’ images poetically question the delicate relationship between form and substance.

Bachelor of maths Science degree 1975
Fine art School,architecture and sculpture ( AtelierCésar, Atelier Jeanclos) 1977-1983
Art University La Sorbone, Paris 1981-1992
Doctor of Human and Art sciences ( Paris I)

2019 Des Artistes & des abeilles /Artists & bees, Topographie de l’art, Paris (F)
2018 Immatérialités/Immateriality - Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris (F)
2017 Le spectre du surréalisme, exhibition for the 40th anniversary of Centre Georges Pompidou, Les Rencontres de la photographie, Arles (F)
2017 Les femmes s’en mêlent/ Facts & fantaisies, Galerie Les filles du Calvaire, Paris (F)
2015 Des torrents d’amour, Mois de la photographie, Nevers (F)2014 Mois de la Photographie, East London Photography Festival, Brentwood Gallery, Romford.(GB)
2010 Guests, 36 poses in Radical Postures, Galerie les Filles du Calvaire, Bruxelles (B)
2012 Labitynt, Festival neuer Kunst, Franckfurt (O)
2011 Sous chaque arbre,une feuille, Arboretum Vilmorin, Verrières (F)
Cosmogonies in biennale « La science de l’art », Conseil général de l’Essone (F)
2009 elles@centrepompidou,artistes femmes dans la collection du musée, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (F)
Mois européen de la photographie, Luxembourg (L)
2007 Kamera los, Musée d’Art Moderne, Salzbourg(A)
2005 Par ce passage infranchi, La Belle de Mai, Marseille (F)
2003 Crossroads, Ecomusée, Savigny-le-Temple (F)
2002 Photogrammes, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris(F)
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