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Biography

Elsa Leydier (1988, France). In Brazil, where she settled in 2015 after graduating from the ENSP in Arles, Elsa Leydier deflects the political burden of iconic images and campaigns for ecofeminism through art.

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Award and residencies
2020 - Mentorat des Filles de la Photo Prize ? Laureate?
2020 - FOAM Talents ? Finalist?
2020 - Encontros da Imagem Emergentes Award ? Laureate?
2020 - Photographic commission CNAP / Jeu de Paume ? Laureate ?
2020 - Encontros da Imagem Discovery Awards ? Finalist ?
2019 - Prix Maison Ruinart / Paris Photo ? Laureate?
2019 - Artist in Residence at Ruinart 2019, Reims, France?
2019 - Dior Emerging Talent Award ? Laureate?
2019 - FOAM Talent ? Finalist?2018 - Prix HSBC pour la Photographie ? Finalist?
2018 - Artist in Residence at Hameau des Baux Arles, France?
2017 - Artist in Residence at Alliance Française de Bogotá, Colombia ?
2016 - Artist in Residence at Jardim Suspenso, Babilônia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 
?2016 - Artist in Residence at EAVerão, Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 
?2013 - Concours Olympus/ENSP ? 1st Prize

Solo exhibitions ?
2020 - Heatwave with Prix de la Maison Ruinart Art Genève, Geneva, Switzerland?
2020 - Heatwave with Prix de la Maison Ruinart, ARCOmadrid, Madrid, Spain?
2020 - Transatlántica, Caroline O?Breen gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands?
2019 - Transatlántica, Intervalle Gallery, Paris, France?
2019 - Transatlántica, With Résonance of Biennale d?Art Contemporain de Lyon, Poltred, France?
2019 - Paris Photo Fair 2019, with Galerie Intervalle, Grand Palais, Paris, France?
2019 - Heatwave, with Prix de la Maison Ruinart / Paris Photo, Grand Palais, Paris, France
?2018 - Like a Thunderstorm Over a Landscape, ATA, San Francisco, USA?
2017 - Plátanos con platino, Alliance Française de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia


Group show and screenings?
2020 - Les Mauvaises Herbes Résisteront, Sur un commissariat d?Alice Santiago, CACN Centre d?Art ? Espace Villary, Nîmes, France?
2020 - Paris Experiences Photo X RATP, Paris metro stations, Paris, France?
2020 - KYOTOGRAPHIE with Prix de la Maison Ruinart, Hosoo gallery, Kyoto, Japan?
2020 - Art Paris Art Fair, with Galerie Intervalle, Grand Palais, Paris, France?
2020 - Unseen Photo Fair [canceled, Covid-19], with Galerie Intervalle, Amsterdam, Netherlands
?2020 - Paris Photo Fair [canceled, Covid-19] with Galerie Intervalle, Grand Palais, Paris, France?
2020 - Genesis, Encontros da Imagem Festival, Braga, Portugal?
2020 - Cell Signals, with Answers Without Words, SF CameraWork, San Francisco, USA
2019 - Dior ? The Art of Color, Kosmo, Neuilly, France?
2019 - Dior ? The Art of Color, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d?Arles, Arles, France?
2019 - What?s Going on in Brazil? Fondation Manuel Rivera Ortiz, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d?Arles, Arles, France?
2019 - Lucie Foundation Group Show, Month of Photo LA, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, USA?
2019 - Wall, with The Smell of Dust, FotoHaus, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d?Arles, Arles, France?
2019 - Fotografia, Amor e Luta, with Revista Old, Salvador, Brasília, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Curitiba & Porto Alegre, Brazil?
2019 -  Retour de résidence, Hameau des Baux, Baux de Provence, France
2018 - Atlas of Forms, Soft Power Palace Festival, Stuttgart, Germany?
2018 - Photographie émergente France / Brésil, Paris Photo, Galerie Collection Privée, Paris, France?
2018 - Unseen Photo Fair, with galerie Intervalle, Amsterdam, Holland?
2018 - Answers Without Words, Cascade Paragon Gallery / Columbia River Correctional Institution, Portland, USA
2018 - Nature Within, Galerie Prints, London, UK?
2018 - Novos Protagonismos, Valongo Festival Internacional da Imagem, Santos, Brazil?
2018 - Du bonheur et rien d?autre, L?Atelier du Midi, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France?
2018 - #FORATEMER #POESIAFICA, curated by The Smell of Dust, FotoHaus, Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France / Berlin, Germany?
2018 - Voyage à Nantes?With Festival Circulation(s), Nantes, France?
2018 - Lucie Foundation Group Show?
2018 - Month of Photo LA  Los Angeles, USA?
2018 - Territorios Imaginarios, PHotoEspaña, Madrid, Spain
?2018 - Festival Circulation(s), Le Cent-Quatre, Paris, France?
2018 - The Earth Issue, The House of St Barnabas, London, UK

2017 - Foto Féminas Screening?Just Another Photo Festival, Kolkata, India
2017 - Braços Verdes e Olhos Cheios de Asas?At the invitation of Revista OLD, Festival Valongo, Santos, Brazil
2017 - #FORATEMER #POESIAFICA?Screening curated by The Smell of Dust, São Paulo, Brazil
2017 - #FORATEMER #POESIAFICA?Screening curated by The Smell of Dust, FotoHaus, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France