KOURTNEY ROY

Photographer

kourtneyroy.com

24 rue du Simplon
BP2, 75018 paris
+33 (0)6 50 49 80 05

Biography

Born 5th August 1981 in North Bay Ontario, Canada
Nationality: Canadian

Education

2000-2004
Emily Carr University of Art and Design, bachelor of fine arts: diploma in fine arts, specialised in photography

January 2003-May 2003
Student at the école nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, atelier de Guillaume, Paris

Prizes and awards

October 2009
One of the 12 photographers preselected for a talent (fashion) selection (www.photographie.com)

April 2008
Winner “Screenings awards”, Berlin (screenings.de/finalists.htm)

May 2007
Winner “Prix Picto”, Paris (picto.fr)

Exhibitions

October 2008
“Prix Picto rétrospective” exhibition of winners of the picto prize, hôtel de sauroy, Paris

July 2008
“Expanded unreal”, exhibition of animated short film “wrong baby” curated by Camille Boemio at the “museo internazionale della caricatura luigi mari” in Tolentino, Italy.

July 2008
“Rencontres d’Arles”, exhibition of self-portraits at the hotel de l’amphithéâtre in Arles

April 2008
“Screenings Awards”, exhibition of my work as winner, Berlin

March 2006
“b(l)izzard” exhibition based on a short animated film made with Marjolijn de Groot, shon at the “studio Abel” in Paris

September 2005
“Camera Obscura”, a solo exhibition of self-portraits made with a pinhole camera, shown at the “Polit Buro” in Paris

Publications and works

February 2010
Series of self-portraits made with the set designer Hervé Sauvage for vision magazine

May 2009
Series of landscapes based on my travels in Canada and Switzerland, published by the magazine twill

May 2009
Series of self-portraits taken in a hotel for the German cultural magazine booklet

March 2009
Portraits of the actress Louise Monot for optimum magazine

January 2009
“Full taxis, empty taxis”, a series of landscapes published byje suis une bande de jeunes, publication for young conceptual photographers  (jesuisunebandedejeunes.com)

December 2008
Group portraits of 5.5 designers for the cultural magazine icon

October 2008
Series of fashion self-portraits for vogue pelle

April 2008
“Suburbia”, series of self-portraits for the cultural magazine above magazine

March 2008
Series of polaroid self-portraits for the Italian cultural magazine urban

April 2005
Animated music video “wrong baby” for the experimental Parisian group “Colder”

Other publications in:

esquire (u.k.), palace magazine (france), applied arts (canada), en route magazine (canada) , amazing (china),
D-magazine (italy)