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Graduated in arts (Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris – Ensba) and in geopolitics (University Panthéon-Sorbonne / Ecole Normale Superieur d’Ulm – Center for Geostrategy).
His works have been shown in numerous exhibitions around the world (Tate Modern in London, Museum Folkwang in Essen, Institut du monde arabe in Paris, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Rencontres d’Arles, Sursock Museum in Beirut, CRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Musée du Louvre Lens…).
He also won the British Journal of Photography International Ph¬otography Award 2020, the BMW Residency for Photography 2018, and the Grand Prix Images Vevey – Leica Prize 2017. He was nominated for the Prix Pictet 2018, the PH Museum Grant 2018 (Honorable Mention), the Coal Award 2016, the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund Award (2015), the Niépce Award 2015, the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2014 as well as the HSBC Award for Photography 2014.
He published “Maydan – Hundred portraits” in 2014 by André Frère Editions and Paradox (Ydoc), “Last water war” in 2016 by André Frère Edition and Al-Muthanna “L’autre rive” in 2017 by André Frère Edition and “Quand les nuages parleront” in 2019 by Camera Editions, and “Le bruit du silence” in 2020 by Filigranes Editions.
His work is present in private collections as well as in public collections like the Stedelijk Museum, the Musée Nicéphore Niepce, the Musée de l’Armée – Invalides and the Centre National des Arts Plastiques.
In addition to his art practice, he teaches at the Institute of Political Studies of Paris (Sciences Po) about contemporary art & geopolitics.
He considers his work as an artistic transcription of geopolitical analyses.
Diverting the codes, Emeric Lhuisset asks us to question our own perceptions of reality and its representation.
IG Emeric Lhuisset
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Academic studies
– Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris / Art
– Ecole Normale Supérieure Ulm / University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris / Geopolitics
Solo exhibitions
2024
– Theatre of War – TOBE Gallery / Budapest
2023
– La couleur du ciel – Chapelle Saint Louis, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière / Paris
– Résistances – Galerie Gilles Drouault / Paris
2022
– Il est interdit d’enfermer les oiseaux en cage – Galerie Gilles Drouault / Paris
– Ukraine – Hundred Hidden Faces | curated by Nathalie Herschdorfer – Musée des Beaux Arts / Le Locle
– Ukraine – Hundred Hidden Faces – Galerie Gilles Drouault / Paris
2021
– L’autre rive – TJ Boulting Gallery / London
– Quand les nuages parleront – Festival Ôrizons | Chapelle de La Visitation / Périgueux
2020
– Regards croisés sur la guerre (in dialogue with the château’s collections) – Château de Saumur / Saumur
2019
– L’autre rive, curated by François Cheval – Paris Photo | Grand Palais /
Paris
– Quand les nuages parleront, curated by François Cheval – Les Rencontres d’Arles | Cloître Saint-Trophime / Arles
2018
– L’autre rive, curated by Shoair Mavlian – Brighton Photo Biennial | University of Brighton Galleries / Brighton
– L’autre rive – Festival Images Vevey / Vevey
2017
– La fuite en Egypte – Hotel d’Agar / Cavaillon
2016
– A mes amis d’ailleurs [installation] – Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration / Paris
– Last water war, ruins of the future – Institut du monde arabe / Paris
2015
– Hundred portraits – Warm Festival, Maydan | Duplex 100m² Gallery / Sarajevo
– Maydan – Hundred portraits, curated by Noëlle Tissier & Gilles Favier – CRAC Languedoc-Roussillon / Sètes
– Maydan – Hundred portraits, curated by Christion Caujolle – Photo Phnom Penh | Java Gallery / Phnom Penh
2013
– A l’Ouest rien de nouveau, curated by Madeleine Filippi – Galerie Vanessa Quang / Paris
2012
– Theater of War – The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space / Beirut
– Prix Paris Jeunes Talents – Centquatre / Paris
Selected group exhibitions
2025
– Voir la mer, curated by Lauranne Germond – MAIF Social Club / Paris
2024
– The camera as a weapon (curator Mirjam Kooiman), Foam Museum, Amsterdam, NL.
– Blast, curated by Hélène Virion – La Fabrique / Toulouse
2023
– L’image en creux, curated by Etienne Hatt – 100ecs / Paris
– Ver la guerra y hacer la paz, curated by Géraldine Gomez – Centre Pompidou Malaga / Malaga
– Tolkien, le pouvoir de l’imaginaire, curated by Estelle Geraud – Château de Saumur / Saumur
– Voir la guerre et faire la paix, curated by Géraldine Gomez – Centre Pompidou / Paris
– La Casa, curated by Chiara Parisi and Yvannoé Kruger – POUSH / Aubervilliers
2022
– #Ukraine – image of war – Photo Elysée / Lausanne
– War at distance, curated by Natasha Christia – Museu d’Art Modern de Tarragona / Tarragona
– Photographies en guerre, curated by Mathilde Benoistel, Sylvie Le Ray-Burimi, Lucie Moriceau-Chastagner and Anthony Petiteau – Musée de l’Armée – Invalides / Paris
2021
– Méditerraner, curated by Julie Fabre – La Friche Belle de Mai / Marseille
– Ôrizons – Chapelle de La Visitation / Périgueux
– La guerre franco-allemande à hauteur d’hommes – Musée de l’Armée – Invalides / Paris
2020
– Résidence 1+2 2020, curated by Philippe Guioni – Résidence 1+2 | Chapelle de Cordeliers / Toulouse
2019
– Arles 2019 – Fisheyes Gallery / Arles
– Chebab – La Colonie / Paris
2018
– Let’s Talk About the Weather: Art and Ecology in a Time of Crisis, curated by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez and Nora Razian – Times Museum / Guangzhou
– Forever Young?, curated by Hripsimé Visser – Stedelijk Museum / Amsterdam
– Angle mort, curated by Cora Djedoui and Nicolas Gimbert – Ici Gallery / Paris
– Saggio sulla cecità, curated by Daniele De Luigi – Fotografia Europea Festival / Reggio Emilia
2017
– New war, curated by Marion Zilio – Fondation Barthélémy Toguo – Bandjoun Station / Bandjoun
– Alter-Climax – Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré / Tours
– Mediterranea Young Artists Biennale, curated by Driant Zeneli, Maja Ciric and Daniele De Luigi – Young Center / Tirana
– Aleppo – Tropen Museum / Amsterdam
– In Conflict, curated by Laura Serani – Celeste Prize 2017 | Fondazione Studio Marangoni / Florence
– Salon de la photographie documentaire (Guest of Honor) – Halle des Blanc-Manteaux / Paris
– Mois de la Photo du Grand Paris (guest artist) – Salon de Montrouge / Montrouge
2016
– L’Histoire commence en Mésopotamie, curated by Arianne Thomas – Louvre Lens / Lens
– Let’s Talk About the Weather: Art and Ecology in a Time of Crisis, curated by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez and Nora Razian – Sursock Museum / Beirut
2015
– In Flux, curated by Shoair Mavlian – Aeschylean Festival | Elefsina Cultural Center / Eleusina
– Rencontres d’Arles (Author Book Award) – Grande Halle, Parc des Ateliers / Arles
– Conflict, Time, Photography, curated by Simon Baker and Shoair Mavlian – Museum Folkwang / Essen
– TRACK-22, curated by Markus Schaden – The PhotoBook Museum | Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art / Krakow
2014
– Conflict, Time, Photography – Tate Modern / London
– Sans tambour ni trompette – Cent ans de guerres, curated by Julie Crenn – Centre d’art La Graineterie / Houilles
– Getxophoto, curated by Christian Caujolle – Photography Festival / Getxo, Bilbao, ES.
– Les âmes grises – Albert Kahn Museum / Boulogne-Billancourt
– Welcome to the end of History, curated by Robert Kluijver – Framer Framed / Amsterdam
– Prix Leica Oskar Barnack [screening] – Rencontres d’Arles | Théâtre antique / Arles
– Fight History, curated by Robert Kluijver – Framer Framed / Amsterdam
2013
– Artraker – Goldsmiths University / London
– Utopia, curated by Anissa Touati and Maud Lourau – Galerie Utopia Berlin / Athens, Berlin
– Chessroom, curated by Sinziana Ravini – Atelier Rouart / Paris
– Artists Angels – Christie’s / Paris
2012
– 12 x 12 – Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration / Paris
– Festival Circulation(s) Jeune Photographie Européenne – Parc de Bagatelle / Paris
– Affinités, déchirures & attraction, curated by Olivier Grasser – FRAC Alsace / Sélestat
Presence in art fairs
2024
– Budapest Contemporary – TOBE Gallery / Budapest
– MIA Photo Fair – TOBE Gallery / Budapest
2023
– Paris Photo | Aperture Photobook Awards – André Frère and Paris Photo / Paris
2022
– Paris Photo | BMW Art Makers – BMW and André Frère / Paris
– Art Antwerp – Galerie Gilles Drouault / Antwerp
2019
– Art Genève – Galerie Gilles Drouault / Geneva
2017
– Paris Photo / Paris
2016
– Paris Photo / Paris
2015
– Paris Photo / Paris
– Photo Doc (International Documentary Photography Fair) – La Bellevilloise / Paris
– Photo London / London
2014
– Paris Photo / Paris
– Singapore Art Fair / Suntec City
2013
– Parallel Vienna | Utopia, curated by Anissa Touati and Maud Lourau / Vienna
– Art Dubai – Madinat Jumeirah / Dubai
ARCO Madrid / Madrid
Awards, scholarships
2024
– IPA Searching For Peace (official selection)
– Prix Niépce (nominated)
– All About Photo Awards (Particular Merit Mention)
2022
– Rencontres d’Arles “Photo Text Book Award” (finalist)
– Best Dutch Book
– Paris Photo – Aperture Photobook Awards (Special Jury Mention)
– Prix Carré sur Seine
– Prix Nadar (finalist)
– Prix Niépce (nominated)
– ISEM Grand Prix (finalist)
2021
– British Journal of Photography International Photography Award
– Prix Pictet (nominated)
– Prix Niépce (nominated)
2018
– Prix Pictet (nominated)
– BMW Residency for Photography
– PH Museum Grant (Honorable Mention)
– IPA – Lucie International Photography Awards (Honorable Mention)
– Talents Contemporains de la Fondation François Schneider (pre-selection)
2017
– Grand Prix Images Vevey – Leica Prize
– Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize (nominated)
– “In Conflict”, Celeste Prize
– The Greatest Photobooks of all Time (by Source Photographic Review)
2016
– Coal Award – art & environment (pre-selection)
2015
– Creation grant from the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP)
– Rencontres d’Arles “Author Book Award” (pre-selection)
– Prix Niépce (nominated)
– Kolga Awards best “Conceptual Photo Project” and best “One Shot” (pre-selection)
– Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund (nominated)
2014
– Best Books of the Year (by Huis Marseille Museum)
– Best Books (by Markus Schaden – The PhotoBookMuseum)
– Nominated by the Maison Européenne de la Photographie for Casa de Velasquez
– Leica Oskar Barnack Award (pre-selection)
– HSBC Photography Prize (pre-selection)
– International Emerging Artist Award (pre-selection)
2013
– Foam Paul Huf award (nominated)
– Artraker award (pre-selection)
2012
– Prix Paris Jeunes Talents
Publications
2023
– Percevoir, Emeric Lhuisset (texts by Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, Simon Baker), Editions de La Martinière
2022
– Ukraine – Hundred hidden faces, Emeric Lhuisset (text by Mykola Riabchuk), co-ed. André Frère / Paradox
2020
– 1+2 Artefactes, ed. Filigranes
2019
– Quand les nuages parleront, Editions Trocadero
2017
– L’autre rive, Emeric Lhuisset, co-édition André Frère / Al-Muthanna
2016
– Last water war, ruins of a future, Emeric Lhuisset (texts by Allan Kaval, Julia Marton-Lefevre, Sarah Hassan, Ariane Thomas, Philippe Dagen and Jack Lang), co-edition André Frère / Paradox
2014
– Maydan – Hundred portraits, Emeric Lhuisset (text by Adrien Goetz), co-edition André Frère / Paradox
2013
– Souvenirs de Syrie, Editions d’auteur
2012
– Theater of war, A propos Emeric Lhuisset (texts by ORLAN, Samira Ouardi and Jean-Vincent Holeindre) Editions The Running Horse
2011
– Wanted / Recherche, collection of mercenary CVs, author’s edition produced with the support of 100ecs
– MIC™, Editions La Bibliothèque Fantastique and Art&Flux
Works in Collections
Tate Modern
Stedelijk Museum
Musée de l’Armée – Invalides
Centre National des Arts Plastiques
Musée Nicéphore Niepce
Photo Élysée
Press
2025
– The Painting, the Photograph and the War fro Ukrain’s Culture – Constant Méheut / New York Times
2024
– Lefotózta a Kígyó-sziget egyik védőjét, aki visszaszólt az oroszoknak – Marcell Bajnai / Magyar Narancs
– Haditudósítás, dokumentació és a háború színpada, Benedek Szabó / PUNKT
2023
– Le photographe Emeric Lhuisset dans la guerre des mémoires entre Russie et Ukraine – Philippe Dagen / Le Monde
2022
– The artful and risky vision of photojournalist Émeric Lhuisset – Nargess Bank / Wallpaper Magazine
