1971, Meudon-la-Foret, France
Education
· Photography and Graphic Design courses: School of Visual Arts, Cooper
Union School of Art and The New School, 1999-2002
· Diploma in Communication and Information, CELSA-La Sorbonne, Paris
(France), 1992
Exhibitions
2005 “Karine Laval”; Craig Kalman
Gallery, Brighton, England
“Karine Laval; Next Door Galleria, Rome, Italy
“Histoires d’Eau”; MB Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
“The Lure of Water”, Desantos Gallery, Houston, TX
“Histoires d’Eau”; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
2004 “57 on 57th”; Bonni Benrubi
Gallery , New York, NY
“The Pool”; Les Recontres in Arles; Arles, France
“Water”; Tulla Booth Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
“The Flow” ; The Mailbox Gallery, Birmingham, England
“Est ist Sommer. Es Ist Heiss”; Galerie f5,6, Munich, Germany
“Pool Party” Yossi Milo Gallery, NYC
“Water Water Everywhere” ; Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY
Ecstacy, Possession and other Transports; Vevy, Switzerland
L’Oeil en Seine: Water; Villa Tamarys-Pacha, Seyne–sur–Mer,
France
“The Pool”; Visual and sound Installation; Le Bon Marche, Paris,
France;
Selections from The Henry Buhl Collection, The Guggenheim
Museum, New York, NY
“I Want to be Your Harbor: a still documentary movie that freezes present
moments in the life of Oslo Harbor; Photography by Karine Laval, Directed
by Mette Aakerholm”; Langkaia, Oslo, Norway
Nattgalleriet, Sorlandet Art Museum, Kristiansand, Oslo, Norway
2003 Paris Photo, Carousell du Louvre, Paris
, France
The Pool, Centre du Culture Francais, Oslo, Norway
Eagle Academy: The School Of the Last Chance, Visa Pour
l’Image – International Photojournalism Festival, Screening Night
Program, Perpignan, France
CMYK: Part 2-Contemporary Color, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
Flash: Swimsuits & Sports, Jackson Fine Art , Atlanta, GA
The Pool, Cappellini, Paris, France
The Pool and Série Noire, Det 11. Bud, Oslo , Norway (solo exhibition)
Here Is New York – A Democracy of Photographs,
Prince Street Gallery, NYC
2002 New York Reactions, Exit Art, New York
Photo SoHo, Exit Art, New York, NY), May 2001
1998 CBGB Gallery, New York, NY
Publications
“Estivants estimés”; Train de Vie; De VISU, TGV, October,
2005
“Karine Laval: The Swimming Pool”; foto; (Poland), May, 2005
“Swimming Pool: Karine Laval”; Fluid Wptywowy Magazyn; (Poland),
July 2005
Harper’s Magazine, September 2005
New York Magazine, July 2nd 2005
“If we (don’t) imagine, what do we see?” ; Images by Karine
Laval; Text by
Patricia Snavely, NextLevel Magazine #7, 2005
“PDN’s 30 emerging photographers to watch” Photo District
News, March 2005
“Breaking Away;” New York Times Magazine, March 6, 2005 Section
6
Photographing Water; Air France Magazine, February 2005
Vecherniy New York; Exhibition Review, 18-24 February 2005
City Magazine, (cover) February 2005
“L’oeil en Seyne- Festival International de Photographies”;
Images Magazine
No 6 2004
“L’Oeil sur Seyne”; Leica World #2 , 2004
“Hot Spot; Les Inrockuptibles, 6 August 2004
Picture Perfect; Edited by Stephanie Hoppen, Jaqui Small Editions, 2004
“Sports Illusions”; EXIT, Issue 15, 2004
“Oslo by Night”; Elle (Norwegian edition) September, 2004
“The Faded Beauty of Havana by Karine Laval”; Free: The Magazine
of Art, Culture & Music, Winter 2003, Norway
“Ein Tag Im Scwimmbad”; Magazin: Frankfurter Rundscau; 31 July,
2004
“Photograph Pa Alvor:” June 21, 2004’; Oslo, Norway
“The Pool: Franofont I Oslo”; Dagsavisen, Sunday 21 March 2004,
Oslo
“Im Schwimmbad”,; Frankfuhrter Runschau, Weekend Magazine,
Frankfurt , Germany, July 2004
Nattgalleriet, Norway, March 2004
“The Pool”; Aftenpoflen, Kultur section, Oslo, Norway, 8 March,
2004
Dazed & Confused, London, May 2004
Fabric Magazine, May 2004
Connaissance des Arts, June 2004
Verstingskolen (boot-camp for delinquent youths); Dagbladet, 8, March, 2003,
Oslo, Norway
The New Yorker; August 11, 2003
“Cubas knyttnever”; Dagbladet, 13, September, 2003, Oslo, Norway
Here Is New York - Scalo, 2002
SoHo Guide - Partnership Publishing, 2002 (cover and inside photographs)
Chelsea Guide - Partnership Publishing, 2001 (inside photographs)
Photo SoHo, 2001 (exhibition catalog)
Zoozoom.com: The Pool (online photography magazine), February 2003
Contributing photographer to several magazines in Europe including
Dagbladet Magazine and ELLE.
Buhl Collection Calendar 2005, to be published in 2004 for the Guggenheim
exhibition of the collection in the summer 2004.
Collections
Contemporanea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Citibank Collection, New York, NY
Henry Buhl Collection, New York, NY
Collection Corbière, Paris, France
Judith Ross and Associates, Boston, MA
Grants
2005 recipient of the Peter Reed Foundation Grant
Awards
PDN Magazine’s Top 30 Photographers of 2005
Finalist of the Villa Medicis Hors les Murs, France 2004