KARINE LAVAL BIOGRAPHY
Karine Laval
Born: 1971, Meudon-la-Foret, France
Education:
Photography and Graphic Design courses: School of Visual Arts, Cooper Union School of Art and The New School, 1999-2002
Diploma in Communication and Information, CELSA-La Sorbonne, Paris (France), 1992
Exhibitions:
2010 "Summer Place"; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
"Summertime Salon 2010", Robin Rice Gallery, NY
"Upstairs", Katherine Markel Fine Arts, Bridgehampton, NY
2009 "Hot Fun in the Summertime"; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
"Au Feminin", Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, France
2008 "The Good Life", Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
"Leisure; Karine Laval", Crane Kalman Gallery, Brighton, England
Histoires de Chaussure: Musée International de la Chaussure,
Romans, France
"Water Water Everywhere"; Tulla Booth Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
2007 "Water… a journey to quiet contemplation: Catherine Opie,
Thomas Wrede, Chhip Hooper, Nadav Kander, Karine Laval, Hiroshi
Sugimoto"; Sahlman Helwaser Art Gallery, New York, NY
"Leisure"; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
"Eclectica II"; Crane Kalman Brighton, United Kingdom
My Favorite Moleskine Exhibition, Pageone, Singapore,
January 5-February 28, 2007.
2006 20/30 Vision: An Anniversary Celebration; Bonni Benrubi Gallery,
New York, NY
Magenta’s Emerging Photographers 2006 Flash Forward, Lennox
Contemporary, Toronto (Canada), November 2 – 12, 2006
My Favorite Moleskine Exhibition, Log On and Citysuper, Hong
Kong (China), September 6-October 12, 2006
2005 The Beach"; Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY
"Karine Laval"; Crane Kalman Gallery, Brighton, England
"Karine Laval; Next Door Galleria, Rome, Italy
"Histoires d’Eau"; MB Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
"The Lure of Water", Desantos Gallery, Houston, TX
"Histoires d’Eau"; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
2004 "57 on 57th"; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
"The Pool"; Les Recontres in Arles; Arles, France
"Water"; Tulla Booth Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
"The Flow"; The Mailbox Gallery, Birmingham, England
"Est ist Sommer. Es Ist Heiss"; Galerie f5,6, Munich, Germany
"Pool Party" Yossi Milo Gallery, NYC
"Water Water Everywhere"; Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY
Ecstacy, Possession and other Transports; Vevy, Switzerland
L’Oeil en Seine: Water; Villa Tamarys-Pacha, Seyne–sur–Mer, France
"The Pool"; Visual and sound Installation; Le Bon Marche, Paris, France;
Selections from The Henry Buhl Collection, The Guggenheim
Museum, New York, NY
"I Want to be Your Harbor: a still documentary movie that freezes present moments in the life of Oslo Harbor;
Photography by Karine Laval, Directed by Mette Aakerholm"; Langkaia, Oslo, Norway
Nattgalleriet, Sorlandet Art Museum, Kristiansand, Oslo, Norway
2003 Paris Photo, Carousell du Louvre, Paris, France
The Pool, Centre du Culture Francais, Oslo, Norway
Eagle Academy: The School Of the Last Chance, Visa Pour
l’Image – International Photojournalism Festival, Screening Night
Program, Perpignan, France
CMYK: Part 2-Contemporary Color, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
Flash: Swimsuits & Sports, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
The Pool, Cappellini, Paris, France
The Pool and Série Noire, Det 11. Bud, Oslo, Norway (solo exhibition)
Here Is New York – A Democracy of Photographs,
Prince Street Gallery, NYC
2002 New York Reactions, Exit Art, New York
Photo SoHo, Exit Art, New York, NY), May 2001
1998 CBGB Gallery, New York, NY
Publications:
Feature Story and Paris Photo: Marie Claire Italia, November 2010
Poolscape Series; The New Yorker, September 2010,
What Makes Life Real Simple; Real Simple Magazine, July 2010
Photographs Karine Laval; Marie Claire Italia, August 2009,
House Divided: The Way We Live Now; The New York Times Magazine,
November 2, 2008
The Pool: H2O issue: NextLevel Magazine, Fall 2008
The Summer Issue: New York Magazine, June 30 , 2008
Histoires de Chaussure (éditions Actes Sud, 2008)
Vision City: New York (Portfolio): VISION Magazine,
Issue 12 China , December 2007
Signs of the Apocalypse Rapture; Front Forty Press (2008)
University of Chicago Press
"Arts+ Photography: Karine Laval"; The New York Sun,
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
"The Surf Prince of Long Beach"; Photographs by Karine Laval, New York
Magazine August 20 2007
Karine Laval/Jason Langer; The New York Magazine, August 20, 2007
Shortlist: Karine Laval, The New Yorker Magazine, July 23, 2007
Milk, portfolio, June 2007
British Airways High Life, May 2007
Newsweek International, March 26, 2007
"The Way We Live Now: 2.4.07" ; The New York Times
Magazine, February 4, 2007
"Trouble in Paradise"; Newsweek Magazine, December 4, 2006
Magenta’s Emerging Photographers 2006 Flash Forward Book, November 2006
Le Figaro, September 9, 2006
It’s Congress War Too; The New York Times Magazine, September 3, 2006
Strangely Familiar; House & Garden, September 2006
Karine Laval: Leisure Time; Vision Magazine (China), August 2006
"Expanding on Jefferson: Photographs by Karine Laval"; The New York Times
Magazine, May 31, 2006
Oh You Pretty Things, Times 2 (UK), March 28, 2006
Follow the Lido, Sunday Telegraph (UK), April 2006
Karine Laval: The Pool; Juice (UK), April 2006
Karine Laval: The Pool; The Brighton Source (UK), April 2006
Boxing in Havana, Arena Trejo; Vision Magazine (China), April 2006
Dive dive dive; Insight City News Brighton (UK), March 2006
"Estivants estimés"; Train de Vie; De VISU, TGV, October, 2005
"Karine Laval: The Swimming Pool"; foto; (Poland), May, 2005
"Swimming Pool: Karine Laval"; Fluid Wptywowy Magazyn; (Poland), July 2005
Harper’s Magazine, September 2005
Expo: Photos de vacances; Le Monde 2 (France), July 2, 2005
New York Magazine, July 2nd 2005
"If we (don’t) imagine, what do we see?"; Images by Karine Laval; Text by
Patricia Snavely, NextLevel Magazine #7, 2005
"PDN’s 30 emerging photographers to watch" Photo District News, March 2005
"Breaking Away;" New York Times Magazine, March 6, 2005 Section 6
Photographing Water; Air France Magazine, February 2005
Vecherniy New York; Exhibition Review, 18-24 February 2005
City Magazine, (cover) February 2005
"L’oeil en Seyne- Festival International de Photographies"; Images Magazine
No 6 2004
"L’Oeil sur Seyne"; Leica World #2, 2004
"Hot Spot; Les Inrockuptibles, 6 August 2004
Picture Perfect; Edited by Stephanie Hoppen, Jaqui Small Editions, 2004
"Sports Illusions"; EXIT, Issue 15, 2004
"Oslo by Night"; Elle (Norwegian edition) September, 2004
"The Faded Beauty of Havana by Karine Laval"; Free: The Magazine of Art, Cul-ture & Music, Winter 2003, Norway
"Ein Tag Im Scwimmbad"; Magazin: Frankfurter Rundscau; 31 July, 2004
"Photograph Pa Alvor:" June 21, 2004’; Oslo, Norway
"The Pool: Franofont I Oslo"; Dagsavisen, Sunday 21 March 2004, Oslo
"Im Schwimmbad",; Frankfuhrter Runschau, Weekend Magazine,
Frankfurt , Germany, July 2004
Nattgalleriet, Norway, March 2004
"The Pool"; Aftenpoflen, Kultur section, Oslo, Norway, 8 March, 2004
Dazed & Confused, London, May 2004
Fabric Magazine, May 2004
Connaissance des Arts, June 2004
Verstingskolen (boot-camp for delinquent youths); Dagbladet, 8, March, 2003,
Oslo, Norway
The New Yorker; August 11, 2003
"Cubas knyttnever"; Dagbladet, 13, September, 2003, Oslo, Norway
Here Is New York - Scalo, Press (2002)
SoHo Guide - Partnership Publishing, 2002 (cover and inside photographs)
Chelsea Guide - Partnership Publishing, 2001 (inside photographs)
Photo SoHo, 2001 (exhibition catalog)
Zoozoom.com: The Pool (online photography magazine), February 2003
Contributing photographer to several magazines in Europe including
Dagbladet Magazine and ELLE.
Buhl Collection Calendar 2005, to be published in 2004 for the Guggenheim
exhibition of the collection in the summer 2004.
Collections:
Contemporanea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Citibank Collection, New York, NY
Henry Buhl Collection, New York, NY
Collection Corbière, Paris, France
Judith Ross and Associates, Boston, MA
The Cleveland Clinic Art Collection, Cleveland OH
Grants:
2005 recipient of the Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant
Polar Circle Festival, residency in the Varanger region, Northern Norway, October 2006
Awards:
Finalist of the Villa Medicis Hors les Murs, France 2004
Finalist of the Buhl Foundation biennial grant 2004 (theme: abstraction)
Juror: Vik Muniz
Selected for Descubrimientos, Photo Espana, 2004
PDN Magazine’s Top 30 Photographers of 2005
Magenta Foundation’s Emerging Photographers 2006
Born: 1971, Meudon-la-Foret, France
Education:
Photography and Graphic Design courses: School of Visual Arts, Cooper Union School of Art and The New School, 1999-2002
Diploma in Communication and Information, CELSA-La Sorbonne, Paris (France), 1992
Exhibitions:
2010 "Summer Place"; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
"Summertime Salon 2010", Robin Rice Gallery, NY
"Upstairs", Katherine Markel Fine Arts, Bridgehampton, NY
2009 "Hot Fun in the Summertime"; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
"Au Feminin", Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, France
2008 "The Good Life", Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
"Leisure; Karine Laval", Crane Kalman Gallery, Brighton, England
Histoires de Chaussure: Musée International de la Chaussure,
Romans, France
"Water Water Everywhere"; Tulla Booth Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
2007 "Water… a journey to quiet contemplation: Catherine Opie,
Thomas Wrede, Chhip Hooper, Nadav Kander, Karine Laval, Hiroshi
Sugimoto"; Sahlman Helwaser Art Gallery, New York, NY
"Leisure"; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
"Eclectica II"; Crane Kalman Brighton, United Kingdom
My Favorite Moleskine Exhibition, Pageone, Singapore,
January 5-February 28, 2007.
2006 20/30 Vision: An Anniversary Celebration; Bonni Benrubi Gallery,
New York, NY
Magenta’s Emerging Photographers 2006 Flash Forward, Lennox
Contemporary, Toronto (Canada), November 2 – 12, 2006
My Favorite Moleskine Exhibition, Log On and Citysuper, Hong
Kong (China), September 6-October 12, 2006
2005 The Beach"; Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY
"Karine Laval"; Crane Kalman Gallery, Brighton, England
"Karine Laval; Next Door Galleria, Rome, Italy
"Histoires d’Eau"; MB Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
"The Lure of Water", Desantos Gallery, Houston, TX
"Histoires d’Eau"; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
2004 "57 on 57th"; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
"The Pool"; Les Recontres in Arles; Arles, France
"Water"; Tulla Booth Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
"The Flow"; The Mailbox Gallery, Birmingham, England
"Est ist Sommer. Es Ist Heiss"; Galerie f5,6, Munich, Germany
"Pool Party" Yossi Milo Gallery, NYC
"Water Water Everywhere"; Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY
Ecstacy, Possession and other Transports; Vevy, Switzerland
L’Oeil en Seine: Water; Villa Tamarys-Pacha, Seyne–sur–Mer, France
"The Pool"; Visual and sound Installation; Le Bon Marche, Paris, France;
Selections from The Henry Buhl Collection, The Guggenheim
Museum, New York, NY
"I Want to be Your Harbor: a still documentary movie that freezes present moments in the life of Oslo Harbor;
Photography by Karine Laval, Directed by Mette Aakerholm"; Langkaia, Oslo, Norway
Nattgalleriet, Sorlandet Art Museum, Kristiansand, Oslo, Norway
2003 Paris Photo, Carousell du Louvre, Paris, France
The Pool, Centre du Culture Francais, Oslo, Norway
Eagle Academy: The School Of the Last Chance, Visa Pour
l’Image – International Photojournalism Festival, Screening Night
Program, Perpignan, France
CMYK: Part 2-Contemporary Color, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
Flash: Swimsuits & Sports, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
The Pool, Cappellini, Paris, France
The Pool and Série Noire, Det 11. Bud, Oslo, Norway (solo exhibition)
Here Is New York – A Democracy of Photographs,
Prince Street Gallery, NYC
2002 New York Reactions, Exit Art, New York
Photo SoHo, Exit Art, New York, NY), May 2001
1998 CBGB Gallery, New York, NY
Publications:
Feature Story and Paris Photo: Marie Claire Italia, November 2010
Poolscape Series; The New Yorker, September 2010,
What Makes Life Real Simple; Real Simple Magazine, July 2010
Photographs Karine Laval; Marie Claire Italia, August 2009,
House Divided: The Way We Live Now; The New York Times Magazine,
November 2, 2008
The Pool: H2O issue: NextLevel Magazine, Fall 2008
The Summer Issue: New York Magazine, June 30 , 2008
Histoires de Chaussure (éditions Actes Sud, 2008)
Vision City: New York (Portfolio): VISION Magazine,
Issue 12 China , December 2007
Signs of the Apocalypse Rapture; Front Forty Press (2008)
University of Chicago Press
"Arts+ Photography: Karine Laval"; The New York Sun,
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
"The Surf Prince of Long Beach"; Photographs by Karine Laval, New York
Magazine August 20 2007
Karine Laval/Jason Langer; The New York Magazine, August 20, 2007
Shortlist: Karine Laval, The New Yorker Magazine, July 23, 2007
Milk, portfolio, June 2007
British Airways High Life, May 2007
Newsweek International, March 26, 2007
"The Way We Live Now: 2.4.07" ; The New York Times
Magazine, February 4, 2007
"Trouble in Paradise"; Newsweek Magazine, December 4, 2006
Magenta’s Emerging Photographers 2006 Flash Forward Book, November 2006
Le Figaro, September 9, 2006
It’s Congress War Too; The New York Times Magazine, September 3, 2006
Strangely Familiar; House & Garden, September 2006
Karine Laval: Leisure Time; Vision Magazine (China), August 2006
"Expanding on Jefferson: Photographs by Karine Laval"; The New York Times
Magazine, May 31, 2006
Oh You Pretty Things, Times 2 (UK), March 28, 2006
Follow the Lido, Sunday Telegraph (UK), April 2006
Karine Laval: The Pool; Juice (UK), April 2006
Karine Laval: The Pool; The Brighton Source (UK), April 2006
Boxing in Havana, Arena Trejo; Vision Magazine (China), April 2006
Dive dive dive; Insight City News Brighton (UK), March 2006
"Estivants estimés"; Train de Vie; De VISU, TGV, October, 2005
"Karine Laval: The Swimming Pool"; foto; (Poland), May, 2005
"Swimming Pool: Karine Laval"; Fluid Wptywowy Magazyn; (Poland), July 2005
Harper’s Magazine, September 2005
Expo: Photos de vacances; Le Monde 2 (France), July 2, 2005
New York Magazine, July 2nd 2005
"If we (don’t) imagine, what do we see?"; Images by Karine Laval; Text by
Patricia Snavely, NextLevel Magazine #7, 2005
"PDN’s 30 emerging photographers to watch" Photo District News, March 2005
"Breaking Away;" New York Times Magazine, March 6, 2005 Section 6
Photographing Water; Air France Magazine, February 2005
Vecherniy New York; Exhibition Review, 18-24 February 2005
City Magazine, (cover) February 2005
"L’oeil en Seyne- Festival International de Photographies"; Images Magazine
No 6 2004
"L’Oeil sur Seyne"; Leica World #2, 2004
"Hot Spot; Les Inrockuptibles, 6 August 2004
Picture Perfect; Edited by Stephanie Hoppen, Jaqui Small Editions, 2004
"Sports Illusions"; EXIT, Issue 15, 2004
"Oslo by Night"; Elle (Norwegian edition) September, 2004
"The Faded Beauty of Havana by Karine Laval"; Free: The Magazine of Art, Cul-ture & Music, Winter 2003, Norway
"Ein Tag Im Scwimmbad"; Magazin: Frankfurter Rundscau; 31 July, 2004
"Photograph Pa Alvor:" June 21, 2004’; Oslo, Norway
"The Pool: Franofont I Oslo"; Dagsavisen, Sunday 21 March 2004, Oslo
"Im Schwimmbad",; Frankfuhrter Runschau, Weekend Magazine,
Frankfurt , Germany, July 2004
Nattgalleriet, Norway, March 2004
"The Pool"; Aftenpoflen, Kultur section, Oslo, Norway, 8 March, 2004
Dazed & Confused, London, May 2004
Fabric Magazine, May 2004
Connaissance des Arts, June 2004
Verstingskolen (boot-camp for delinquent youths); Dagbladet, 8, March, 2003,
Oslo, Norway
The New Yorker; August 11, 2003
"Cubas knyttnever"; Dagbladet, 13, September, 2003, Oslo, Norway
Here Is New York - Scalo, Press (2002)
SoHo Guide - Partnership Publishing, 2002 (cover and inside photographs)
Chelsea Guide - Partnership Publishing, 2001 (inside photographs)
Photo SoHo, 2001 (exhibition catalog)
Zoozoom.com: The Pool (online photography magazine), February 2003
Contributing photographer to several magazines in Europe including
Dagbladet Magazine and ELLE.
Buhl Collection Calendar 2005, to be published in 2004 for the Guggenheim
exhibition of the collection in the summer 2004.
Collections:
Contemporanea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Citibank Collection, New York, NY
Henry Buhl Collection, New York, NY
Collection Corbière, Paris, France
Judith Ross and Associates, Boston, MA
The Cleveland Clinic Art Collection, Cleveland OH
Grants:
2005 recipient of the Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant
Polar Circle Festival, residency in the Varanger region, Northern Norway, October 2006
Awards:
Finalist of the Villa Medicis Hors les Murs, France 2004
Finalist of the Buhl Foundation biennial grant 2004 (theme: abstraction)
Juror: Vik Muniz
Selected for Descubrimientos, Photo Espana, 2004
PDN Magazine’s Top 30 Photographers of 2005
Magenta Foundation’s Emerging Photographers 2006
