Tina
Merandon

Tina Merandon

biography

French photographer, born in 1963, based in Montreuil (France).

Tina Mérandon explores relationships, exchanges and confrontations, a recurring theme that takes the form of improvised choreography.
In perpetual plastic research, she works on color and body language towards abstract or graphic forms. Everything is linked to the body, the skin, to gestures whether animal or human. The theme of the animal becomes essential but always linked to man, the relationship forming the central subject. Her activity now alternates between residencies, commissions, carte blanche, workshops with different audiences. She was selected by the French Institute of Vietnam for the Villa Saigon 2025. Tina Merandon is a professor, lecturer at the Sorbonne Paris1, photography option.

Nominated for the Kodak Prize for Photographic Criticism in 1998, she won the 2003 Young Creation Prize and the Roger Pic Special Mention in 2012. Her works are featured in public collections such as the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the collections of the Musée Nicéphore Niepce, as well as private collections such as the Neuflize OBC bank, which acquired two works for its collection in 2024. She published her book Tisser sa toile with Loco publishing in 2021, she is a finalist for the 2022 Nadar Prize. She is distributed by Agence VU.

Series

The gazelle with golden eyes, 2023/2024

Serie | In The Gazelle with the Golden Eyes, the hand-to-hand contact that is characteristic of my photographic work takes on a particular form: strange and familiar at the same time.

Anima, 2014 & 2021

Serie | This series tells the story of a child's relationship with his or her pet.

1.2.3 SOLEIL, 2019

Serie | In the Griffeuille district of Arles, Tina Merandon has succeeded in transcending the image we have of others through a photographic experiment carried out in interaction with local residents.

The Wrestlers, 2017

Serie | ‘Wrestlers": a fascinated investigation into the study of the body in its closest connection with play, sport and confrontation, a recurring theme in Tina Merandon's work.

The Little Dancers, 2017

Série | This series was produced during a residency in Aulnay-sous-Bois (93) on the theme of childhood.

The gazelle with golden eyes, 2023/2024

Serie | In The Gazelle with the Golden Eyes, the hand-to-hand contact that is characteristic of my photographic work takes on a particular form: strange and familiar at the same time.

Anima, 2014 & 2021

Serie | This series tells the story of a child's relationship with his or her pet.

1.2.3 SOLEIL, 2019

Serie | In the Griffeuille district of Arles, Tina Merandon has succeeded in transcending the image we have of others through a photographic experiment carried out in interaction with local residents.

The Wrestlers, 2017

Serie | ‘Wrestlers": a fascinated investigation into the study of the body in its closest connection with play, sport and confrontation, a recurring theme in Tina Merandon's work.

The Little Dancers, 2017

Série | This series was produced during a residency in Aulnay-sous-Bois (93) on the theme of childhood.

The gazelle with golden eyes, 2023/2024

Serie | In The Gazelle with the Golden Eyes, the hand-to-hand contact that is characteristic of my photographic work takes on a particular form: strange and familiar at the same time.

Anima, 2014 & 2021

Serie | This series tells the story of a child's relationship with his or her pet.

1.2.3 SOLEIL, 2019

Serie | In the Griffeuille district of Arles, Tina Merandon has succeeded in transcending the image we have of others through a photographic experiment carried out in interaction with local residents.

The Wrestlers, 2017

Serie | ‘Wrestlers": a fascinated investigation into the study of the body in its closest connection with play, sport and confrontation, a recurring theme in Tina Merandon's work.

The Little Dancers, 2017

Série | This series was produced during a residency in Aulnay-sous-Bois (93) on the theme of childhood.

Exhibitions

Bondir et Rêver
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Galerie Sandra Blum
6 rue des charpentiers
67000 Strasbourg, France
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From 29 September to 17 November 2023

Plus d’informations

Tisser sa toile : une relation mère/fille
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Galerie de l’artothèque – salle du temple
Place Notre-Dame
35 500 Vitré
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From 2 July to 16 October 2022

Anima and Rebonds
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Le Silo
53 rue Paul Doucet
02400, Château-Thierry
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From 11 June to 30 July 2022

Books

Vertigo

Diaphane Éditions - 2012

Escape

Diaphane Éditions - 2009

Syndromes

Auto édition - 2001

Circus : The Ghosts of Light

1999

Vertigo

Diaphane Éditions - 2012

Escape

Diaphane Éditions - 2009

Syndromes

Auto édition - 2001

Circus : The Ghosts of Light

1999

Vertigo

Diaphane Éditions - 2012

Escape

Diaphane Éditions - 2009

Syndromes

Auto édition - 2001

Circus : The Ghosts of Light

1999

Prices

Finalist for the Prix Nadar

For her book Tisser sa toile

2022

Special mention for SCAM’s Prix Roger

2007

Prix jeune création

Pour la série Syndromes

2003