About
Born in 1984, Quentin Chamard-Bois lives and works in Paris. His practice brings together analogue photography, painting, installations and participatory projects.
The grandson of a photographer, he took his first pictures at six. In Guadalajara, he took part in his first exhibition in 2006, explored light painting and became Cuitláhuac Correa’s assistant in 2009.
Returning to France in 2011, he worked in lighting direction for fashion. A winner of Photo Talent Academy in 2017, he created the cover of the July–August issue of PHOTO magazine. Since 2019, painting and multiple exposures on film have become central to his practice.
In 2023, he initiated The 333 Project in Paris, followed by THE 33 in New York and THE 22 in 2025. The works circulate to spark encounters, emotions and stories.
In 2026, his images became prints for Christian Wijnants’ Autumn–Winter collection. He continues his explorations in installation and three-dimensional work.
Biography
Born in 1984, Quentin Chamard-Bois is a French artist who lives and works in Paris. His practice brings together analogue photography, painting, installation and participatory projects.
The grandson of a photographer, he took his first pictures at six and began filming his skateboarding friends at eleven. In Guadalajara in 2006, he took part in his first group exhibition, Porte ouverte à l’art, alongside artist and gallerist Luis Buitron. In 2008, he sold his light painting works every weekend at the Glorieta del Arte. He became photographer Cuitláhuac Correa’s assistant in 2009.
In 2010, he presented a 3.5 × 7 m photographic mural on photographic paper in Guadalajara at an event sponsored by MoMA. In June 2011, La Chambre Noire, shown at Les Mille-Pas in Voiron, brought together five suspended large-format photographs, a room lined with black fabric and an original sound composition.
Returning to France in 2011, he worked in lighting direction for fashion. A winner of Photo Talent Academy in 2017, he created the cover of the July–August issue of PHOTO magazine. From 2019 onwards, painting and multiple exposures on film became central to his practice: painted surfaces, fabrics and light overlap until forms become uncertain.
In 2023, he initiated The 333 Project in Paris. The project continued in New York with THE 33, then from hand to hand with THE 22 in 2025. The circulation of works became a way to meet strangers and gather their feelings, memories and stories.
In 2026, his works extend into the prints of Christian Wijnants’ Autumn–Winter collection. Alongside this collaboration, he continues his explorations in installation and three-dimensional work.
Artist statement
A stone taken from the water, a flower held by a thread, a painted surface in front of the lens: I often begin by choosing, moving or arranging. These gestures carry care, but also constraint. Keeping something close can mean deciding what form it is allowed to take.
Through multiple exposures, movement and light, I try to loosen this arrangement. Contours shift; moments overlap. When I develop the film, I discover an image I had not entirely foreseen.
With The 333 Project, this uncertainty comes through other people. I let the works go to gather the feelings, stories and memories they bring to life. What matters is also what someone I do not know chooses to tell me.