Jean-Baptiste Huynh was born in Châteauroux in 1966 to a French mother and Vietnamese father. He taught himself the techniques of photography, lighting and printing, and has thus developed a personal, understated photographic style practised through portraiture, nudes and still life or, more recently, the series Mirrors, Fire and Twilights.
His research is primarily focused on perspective, light, timelessness and links with the infinite.
His photography is showcased through exhibitions, displays and publications which are considered to form an integral part of his projects and a complete expression of his vision. He has penned nine publications on portraiture. Recipient of the Extramural Villa Medici grant, Jean-Baptiste Huynh exhibits across various galleries and museums worldwide.
2016: Nature, Lelong Gallery, Paris (France)
2015: Nus, Lelong Gallery, Paris (France), Photo Solo show, Paris (France), Feu, Xippas Gallery, Geneva (Switzerland), Vanitas Contemporary Reflections on Love and Death, Collection de Stéphane Janssen, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix (USA)
2014: JB Huynh in conversation with the LACMA Museum at the BCI, Los Angeles (USA)
2013: Louvre - Rémanence, Camera Work Gallery, Berlin (Germany), Élégance, Jardin Raymond VI, Toulouse (France), L’objet Nuage, Musée Réattu, Arles, France
2012: Rémanence, Musée du Louvre, Paris (France)
2011: Monochrome, Camera Work Gallery, Berlin (Germany), Trajectoire, Couvent des Cordeliers, Châteauroux (France), Beauty, Flowers in photography, Alexander Ochs Galleries, Beijing (China)
2009: Jean-Baptiste Huynh, Photographies, Camera Work Gallery, Berlin (Germany), The Portrait. Photography as Stage, Kunsthalle, Vienna (Austria), Jean-Baptiste Huynh, Photographies, Musée de l’Hospice Saint Roch, Issoudun (France), Twilight, ESO Astronomy Room, Desert Museum, Antofagasta (Chile)
2008: Mirrors, Meteorites, Twilights, Sonnabend Gallery, New York (USA), Power of Photography, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul (South Korea)
2007: Sonnabend Gallery, New York (USA)
2006: Le regard à l’œuvre, école Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris (France), Embassy of France in Argentina, Buenos Aires (Argentina), Nature, Photo Espana, Galerie Joan Gaspar, Madrid (Spain), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux (France)
2005: ART BASEL, Basel (Switzerland), ARCO, Madrid (Spain)
2004: Galerie Beyeler, Basel (Switzerland), Inde, FIAC, M. Hoss Gallery, Paris (France), Moscow House of Photography (Russia), Tokyo Photographic Portrait Gallery (Japan), Jean-Baptiste Huynh, Camera Work Gallery, Berlin (Germany), French Association for Artistic Action, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paris (France)
Miami Art, Miami (USA)
2003: Mali, FIAC, M. Hoss Gallery, Paris (France), Photographies, M. Hoss Gallery, Paris (France)
2002: Yeux, Tokyo Photographic Cultural Centre (Japan), Prinz Gallery, Kyoto (Japan), University of Art, Osaka (Japan)
2001: Yeux, European House of Photography, Paris (France)
2000: Foundation for Photography, Turin, (Italy)
1999: Paris Photo, Paris (France), Maison de la Chine, Paris (France)
1998: Intime Infini, Hôtel d’Albret, Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Paris (France)
1997: Immortels, French Association for Artistic Action, Paris (France)
1990: Portraits, Espace Electra, Foundation EDF, Paris (France)
1989: Paysages, Palais des architectes, Warsaw (Poland)
