Biography

Thirty years
in the studio.

The female figure as territory — not as subject. It is on this line, held since 1992, that Jehan Le Gac's work unfolds: painting, photography, video, installation.

The artist in his studio — Bangkok · 2024
The artist in his studio — Bangkok · 2024
Author's Note

A work as an out-of-place autobiography.

Contemporary French artist, painter and photographer. For more than thirty years, her work has revolved around the exaltation of the female figure in all its complexity — its strength, its vulnerability, its beauty, its mystery. Her practice, which embraces oil painting, photography, and contemporary media, is a profound reflection of her own life processes and inner transformations.

From an early age, he began his artistic journey as a photographer in Paris, later becoming the personal photographer of Admiral Philippe de Gaulle. Over the years, her style has evolved from erotic and sensual imagery to more symbolic and introspective explorations of femininity. Each phase of his work reflects a metamorphosis that corresponds to his personal growth.

Currently set between Bangkok and Hong Kong, her latest series of oil paintings reveals a more poetic and layered approach to the female figure, often fusing the divine, the mythological and the emotional into ethereal portraits. Her visual language unfolds fluidly between classical beauty and conceptual narrative, with a strong curatorial sensibility.

Jehan Le Gac's body of work is a tribute to the sacred feminine in all its phases — muse, mirror, mystery.

Exhibitions

Selection
2014 — 2026

2026

Art Zurich International — Kongresshaus Zürich, Switzerland

Fair
2025

Divine Feminine — New works — Galerie Houg, Paris

Personal
2024

The Inhabited Body — Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris

Collective
2023

Metamorphoses — Centre d'art contemporain, Honfleur

Personal
2022

Inner Landscapes — Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo

Personal
2020

Figures of the Contemporary — Centre Pompidou-Metz

Collective
2018

Anima — Galerie Templon, Brussels

Personal
2016

The Feminine Now — Marlborough Gallery, New York

Collective
2014

Passage(s) — Musée des Beaux-Arts, Quimper

Retrospective
Press

Writings
on the work

2025

Jehan Le Gac, the patience of the gaze

Knowledge of the Arts
2024

The painter of interiorities

Beaux Arts Magazine
2023

Interview with Jehan Le Gac

Art Press, n°498