Jean-Baptiste Huynh è nato a Châteauroux nel 1966 di madre francese e di padre vietnamita. Autodidatta, impara le tecniche fotografiche dell’illuminazione e dello sviluppo delle fotografie. Sviluppa quindi una scrittura fotografica personale e sobria che adopera per realizzare ritratti, nudi e nature morte o più recentemente le serie Specchi, Fuoco e Crepuscolo.
Le sue ricerche sono principalmente incentrate sullo sguardo, la luce, l’atemporalità e la relazione con l’infinito.
Le sue opere fotografiche si materializzano nelle sue esposizioni, le loro scenografie e i suoi libri che fanno parte integrante dei suoi progetti e sono un’espressione compiuta della sua arte fotografica. È l’autore di nove libri dedicati al ritratto. Laureato della Villa Medici fuori le mura, Jean-Baptiste Huynh espone le proprie opere in varie gallerie e musei in tutto il mondo.
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)
