Antoine Lecharny is a photographer, painter, and sculptor, born in 1995.
His work, exhibited and awarded in France and internationally—including the Jury Prize at the Planches Contact Festival, the Bourse du Talent — Picto Foundation, the Audience Award at the Boutographies Festival, and the Paris Match Prize—is held in several public and private collections, including that of Marin Karmitz. A recipient of the Audi Talents Award alongside artist Henri Frachon, he exhibited his sculptural project Disegno Astratto at the Palais de Tokyo in 2021, which subsequently led to a publication by Tonini Editore. In 2023, Sit Down, which represents him, hosted his first solo photography exhibition in Paris, Côté fenêtre.
In 2025, he received the Gomma Grant B&W Award, which recognized his long-term project exploring the memory of the mass shootings of Jews and Roma in Eastern Europe and the Baltic countries during the Second World War. The project, entitled Sous terre, was published as a book in 2025 by Éditions d’une rive à l’autre. That same year, Antoine Lecharny was one of three artists selected for support from Sarah Moon as part of the Grand Prix of the Académie des beaux-arts.
In 2026, he received support from the CNAP for contemporary documentary photography to pursue his project Feu Stalinstadt, which bears witness to the fragmentation of the urban plan, collective memory, and social fabric of the German industrial city of Eisenhüttenstadt. As a resident artist at Villa Pérochon, contemporary photography art center based in Niort, he also created Bassine, outardes, grenades, a series devoted to the memory of the mega-reservoir at Sainte-Soline, the civic and activist movements that opposed it, and their repression. This body of work is part of an artistic approach that has developed over the years, taking the form of a visual and memorial investigation into the traces left by violence and conflict, both in landscapes and in the minds of those who inhabit them.
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