Antoine Poupel is a visual photographer born in 1956 in Le Havre.

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Graduated in 1982 from the École des Beaux-Arts in Le Havre, he won the Villa Medici stock exchange two years later and became a resident atAcadémie de France in Rome. This residency allows him to develop a photographic work in direct correspondence with the approach of a painter by appropriating light as a pictorial material.

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Throughout his career, he has constantly questioned the boundaries between aesthetics and photography techniques. The representation of the body, eroticism, death and forms of representation of the sacred are the recurring themes in his work.

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Presented as one of the “101 best contemporary artists in France” by the magazine Art Absolument, Antoine Poupel is undeniably part of the international art market. He lives and works sharing his life between France and Japan.

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Antoine Poupel's work is part of the permanent collections of important public and private institutions in France, such as the National Contemporary Art Fund, the Museum of Modern Art of the city of Paris, the European House of Photography, the Museum of Fine Arts from Le Havre, but also abroad, such as in Japan at Metropolitan Museum of Photography from Tokyo, Australia to Nicholson Museum from Sydney or China to Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum. His work opened the doors of the legendary Crazy-Horse and equestrian theater Zingaro.

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