Pierre-Yves Linot is a French photographer and visual artist whose work encompasses both observation of reality and poetic interpretation. His projects explore a range of themes: the expression of individuality in 4stones, vulnerability in the face of uncertainty in Impossible, and immigration in Immigrant Song.
His artistic choices often draw on alternative photographic processes, which help shape the visual language of each body of work. These include image transfer onto fine-art paper, silkscreen and cyanotype.
After fifteen years in New York, where he further developed his photographic practice at the International Center of Photography (ICP) and the School of Visual Arts (SVA), he returned to France and settled in Le Mans, his hometown. His work has been exhibited in New York at Soho Photo Gallery, Photoville, Culture Lab LIC, the School of Visual Arts and Foley Gallery, as well as in Los Angeles, Paris and Madrid.
He is also the director and curator of Today's Alternative, a platform dedicated to historical and experimental photographic processes.
Solo Shows
2018 - Immigrant Song / New work / School of Visual Arts / NYC
2017 - Immigrant Song / Soho Photo Gallery / NYC
2015 - Thirteen New Steps / Soho Photo Gallery / NYC
2013 - In the Intimacy of the 4stones / Soho Photo Gallery / Governors’ Island Art Fair / NYC
2007 - 4stones in New York / Soho Photo Gallery / NYC
Recent Group Shows
2023 - The Curated Fridge / Culture Lab / Long Island City / NY
2022 - Holiday Show / Gallery Onetwentyeight Gallery / NYC
2022 – Immigrant Song / Soho Photo Gallery 50’s Anniversary / NYC
2022 – 4stones in Blue / Other Ways of Seeing / Culture Lab / Long Island City / NY
2021 – These Years / Art & Activism / SVACE / Photoville / Brooklyn
2021 – Immigrant Song / Social Documentary Network / Concord MA
2020 – Artists Navigating 2020 / Culture Lab at the Plaxall Gallery / Long Island City / NY
2020 – Life Interrupted / Culture Lab at the Plaxall Gallery / Long Island City / NY
2019 – 15th National Alternative Processes Competition / SPG / NYC
2019 – We the Immigrants / immigrants / Soho Photo Gallery / NYC
2019 – The Exhibition Lab 2019 / Foley Gallery / NYC
2019 – Off The Clock 2019 / Month Of Photography Los Angeles
2019 – 21st International Krappy Kamera Competition / SPG / NYC
2018 – 14th Annual National Alternative Processes Competition / Soho Photo Gallery / NYC
2018 – Art & Activism / Slideshow / School of Visual Arts Theater / NYC
2018 – 4th Annual Group Show / Davis Orton Gallery / Hudson / NY
2015 – It’s a Dog’s World! / Soho Photo Gallery / NYC
2015 – Alternative Processes Group Show / Soho Photo Gallery / NYC
2014 – The built environment / Soho Photo Gallery / Photoville / Brooklyn
Curator
2022 - Other Ways of Seeing / Culture Lab at the Plaxall Gallery / Long Island City / NY
2019 - immigrants / Soho Photo Gallery / NYC
2014 - Bearing Witness: Art and Resistance in Cold War Latin America / John Jay College / NYC
2013 - Documenting the Dictatorship in Chile: An Act of Resistance / Soho Photo Gallery / NYC
2013 - Commemorating 40 years since the Military Coup in Chile / CWE CUNY / NYC
Publications
2022 - Other Ways of Seeing - Alternative Processes in Photography
2019 - Off The Clock / American Photographic Artists / Los Angeles
2015 - Legacies of State Violence and Transitional Justice / Lexington Books / Washington DC
2013 - Inexploré Magazine / Hors Série n°2 / INREES / Paris
Public engagement
2022 - Curator and artist walkthrough
2021 - Workshop
2020 - Artist talk
2019 - Curator and artist walkthrough