MARIE - HELENE LE NY 
8 , RUE DES PRAIRIES 
7 5 0 2 0 P A R I S 
T E L + FAX : 33 (0)1 40 33 65 56 
@ : marie-helene.le-ny@wanadoo.fr 
 
Born the 22nd of january 1963 
French 
 
 
UNIVERSITY BACKGROUND 
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1992       D.E.A. of Aesthetics, University of Paris I ( The model's notion in photography) 
1990       Master of Aesthetics, University of Paris I ( Photography and narration / D.Michals, J. Le Gac) 
1986       Training course on photography and audio-visual techniques (Vocational Training Certificate in laboratory's techniques) 
1985       Diplôme National Supérieur d'Expression Plastique, " Art " department  
1980/85    Fine Arts School of Rouen 
 
 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE  
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2001/ 03  Workshop with Images Buissonnières (photographer's association), in primaries forms of Seine-St-Denis (4/5 - 7/8) 
  (18 hours each, works exhibited in The Gérard Philippe theatre in June 2002)  
1999/ 02  Photography teacher, Agricultural Secondary school, St Germain en Laye 
  - option for G.C.E.A.-levels.( Photographic history , pictures' reading, theory and practical )  
1999/ 00   Worshop at The House of Gesture and Image (Paris) 
  I worked with a class of teenagers within the context of 2000 pictures for the 2000 year. 
  - 20 educational establishment took part in this project exhibited within the context of The Month of Photography in Paris, in November 2000.  
  Each class came to work in the HGI conducted by a teacher associated with the artist. Making of pictures, printings, photograms and digital inset  
  - the 20 workshops were perpetuated on a ROM CD   
1999  Workshop in primary schools within the context of " Art at School ", organised about the exhibition "Ones and Others - on the theme of portrait, 
  by the town of Sénart, the CRDP of Créteil and the Frac Ile-de-France   
1999/ 02  Stand-in Visual Arts' teacher in grammar schools (French National Education- part-time)   
1998/ 99  Workshop at the Agricultural Secondary school of Fayl-Billot (52) 
  Ordered by an Association : Champ'art, within the context of my exhibition at the Contemporary Art Centre Passages of Troyes 
  From local memory and history of the basket makers' village of Fayl-Billot, exhibition with an upper sixth form.  
1998/ 99  Workshop in The House of Gesture and Image (Paris) 
  - photo/video/digital inset, with a form of secondary school of Paris  
1997/ 02  Photography teacher at I.U.F.M. of Paris (Teacher Training College) 
  ( workshops with students, about pedagogic applications of photography at school)  
1996   Photographer in a workshop with people who had minimum welfare payment , Regional Ethnology Museum of Béthune.  
  ( Works on the memory of 3 specific districts of Béthune, exhibitions and catalogue's elaboration )   
1995/ 96  Art Teacher, National Upper School Louis Lumière  
   ( replacement maternity leave : conception and preparation of photographic projects, critical approaches, art history ) 
1994  Workshop in a nursery school for the exhibition " The nursery school with children's eyes " ,  
  co-produce by The National Centre of Photography and Fisher Price.  
1994  Curator in the May of Photography in Reims, for the exhibition " The Temptation of the third dimension : Photography and Sculpture " ,  
  (conception and organisation of a travelling exhibition on a barge. Borrowings of works to galleries and National collections,  
  purchases of modern prints to patrimonial agencies : CNMH & French National Library )  
1993   Workshop in Reims' Fine Arts School ( during " The mad week " )  
1993  Lecture on " Photography and Media ", E.F.A.P., Paris ( Photographys' circulation : press, agencies, galleries, festivals, institutions and public collections.) 
1991/ 93  Photography teacher at the Fine Art School of Rueil-Malmaison (with secondary's pupils)  
1989  Photography's History teacher , E.F.E.T., Paris  
1987  Independent Photographer (since…)  
   
            

ARTISTICAL WORKS 
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PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS  
 

2002 Provisoirement définitif, Maison de l'art et de la communication, Sallaumines 
2002 Mes petits morceaux de madeleines, Gastronomades, Angoulême's artotheque 
2001 Mémoire d'avenir, Galerie f, Matane, Québec  
2001 Mémoire d'avenir, Provisoirement définitif, Horace Gallery, Sherbrooke - Québec 
2000 Avoir 20 ans en l'an 2000, Vitré's & Villeurbanne's artotheques
2000 Mes petits morceaux de madeleines, Salvador Allende centre, Saint-Malo 
1999 Mes petits morceaux de madeleines, M. Genevoix Library, Blois  
1999 Mes petits morceaux de madeleines, Jean-Pierre Lambert Gallery, Paris
1999 "Fragments", Contemporary Art Centre Passages, Troyes  
1998 Mémoire d'avenir - Centre des Archives du Monde du Travail, Roubaix 
1997 Mémoire d'avenir - Action Culture Gallery - Lille 3 University 
1996 Mémoire d'avenir - Historic Mining Centre , Lewarde, France 
1994 L'école rurale s'affiche : ordered by National Education  
1992 Portraits de familles, Photofolie / 13ème Art - Dalle des Olympiades, Paris  
1991 Nouveau temps, nouvel espace - Maison populaire, Montreuil 
1991 Portraits d'artistes, 13ème Art, Laboratoire Publiphoto, Paris
1985 Fine Arts School of Rouen gallery  
 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 
 
2001 " du producteur au consommateur 2 ", Mes petits morceaux de madeleines, Duchamp Gallery, Yvetot
2000 Paris-3D, Month of photo in Paris, Carnavalet Museum 
2000 Avoir 20 ans en l'an 2000 - Month of photo in Paris / Paris 13 Town hall  
2000 The Jean-Pierre Lambert Gallery at Hennebont's artothèque (56) 
2000 De l'appétit, des Vanités - Aragon Library, Choisy-le-Roi 
2000 Micro-galerie, The House of Gesture and Image, Paris 
1999 FIAC, Jean-Pierre Lambert Gallery, Paris  
1999 Les uns les autres, collection of Frac Ile de France, Ferme du Couleuvrain, Savigny le Temple
1999 The House of Gesture and Image, Paris 
1998 Mémoire d'avenir, Saga, Frac Ile de France, Paris 
1997 L'art à l'école, Maria Callas grammar school, Courtry (77)  
1996 Cadavres exquis - Réalités quotidiennes, biennale du site du rotin, Champigny / Marne.
1996 Perspectives - Jean-Pierre Lambert Gallery, Paris 
1995 Art, Fonction Sociale ! - Cité de Refuge, (13ème ART) Paris 
1995 Des images à distance - M.A.C. de Sallaumines (62) + installations on autobus 
1995 Mémoire d'avenir, Palais de l'Archevêché, Jean-Pierre Lambert Gallery, R.I.P., Arles.  
1995 Art, Fonction Sociale ? - Fine Arts School, Rouen 
1995 Des images à distance - Fine Arts Museum, Le Havre  
1994 " La galerie fête ses 10 ans " - Jean-Pierre Lambert Gallery, Paris 
1994 Cité de Refuge - Salon de Montrouge  
1993 Cité de Refuge - Cité de Refuge ( Armée du Salut / Mobilier urbain Decaux), Paris  
1990 La Boîte de Pandore, Rouen 
1990 Les Books de Libé, Hôtel d'Escoville, Caen 
1990 Du temps à l'œuvre... - Château d'eau's Gallery, Toulouse 
1989 Du temps à l'œuvre, peintres et sculpteurs vus par les photographes - Paris 13 Town Hall  
1989 Les Books de Libé - Actes Sud Gallery, Arles 
1987 Open Haven , Zeewolde - Pays-Bas 
1986 "A" comme Artistes - Fine Arts Museum, Le Havre 
1986 The Fine Arts School of Rouen in Saint-Ouen's Abbey 
 

COLLECTIONS 
 
FRAC Ile de France - Regional Funds for Contemporary Art(Mémoire d'avenir n°6)
FNAC - National Funds for Contemporary Art(Mes petits morceaux de madeleines ) 
Hennebont's artotheque (Mes petits morceaux de madeleines)  
Villeurbanne's artotheque de (Mes petits morceaux de madeleines) 
Vitré's artotheque (Mes petits morceaux de madeleines ) 
Lewarde's Historic Mining Centre (Mémoire d'avenir n°2) 
National French Library (Photographies de familles, Mémoire d'avenir n°4) 
Private collections 

PUBLICATIONS 
 
Du producteur au consommateur 2, exhibition's catalogue, collection " Petit Format ", Duchamp Gallery, Yvetot, 2001 
Avoir 20 ans en l'an 20000, exhibition's catalogue, Vitré's artotheque / Frac Bretagne 
Esthétique de la Photographie - la perte et le reste, (chap. 8) by François Soulages, Edition Nathan Université- 1998
Mémoire d'avenir, exhibition's catalogue, Lewarde's Historic Mining Centre - 1996 
Des Images à distance, catalogue, Fine Arts Museum of Le Havre and MAC of Sallaumines - 1995 
Cité de Refuge 1933 Le Corbusier - 60ème anniversaire, Armée du Salut / Art Seine Tri.D - 1995 
Cité de Refuge, exhibition's catalogue, ART SEINE TRI.D, 1993 
Du temps à l'œuvre, peintres et sculpteurs vus par les photographes, exhibition's catalogue, Paris 13 Town Hall, - 1989 
Création (photographique) en France, François Soulages, Toulon Museum - 1988 
"A" comme Artistes, exhibition's catalogue, Fine Arts Museum of Le Havre- 1986
 Presented to Niepce Prize by François Soulages in 2000 

ARTICLES AND COLLABORATIONS  
 
Catalogue of May of photography in Reims 1995, " Photography and sculpture : 3rd dimension's temptation" 
TDC  (Texts and and documents for the form) n°838 -15 june 2002, "Photographic' art - the look in héritage"
"LEVEZ LES YEUX",cd-rom : photographic workshops at school, coedition Scérén/Editions Jacqueline Chambon Multimédia
 
 @ : marie-helene.le-ny@wanadoo.fr