2021
Concert without Public: Ned Rothenberg, Alain Kirili and Ariane Lopez-Huici at White Street Studio. Streaming available here. Video live stream courtesy of Roulette Intermedium. Listen to Alain and Ariane interview to learn more about jazz and art in New York City.
2014
Ariane Lopez-Huici exhibits in Parcours Croisés a duo with Alain Kirili at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen in France. It is the first time they show together revealing a lifetime committment of a shared artistic life.
2010
Ariane Lopez-Huici exhibits her most recent series on a handicapped model Priscille, in the joint exhibition Ariane Lopez-Huici and Marilia Destot: The Fragmented Body, at the French Institute-Alliance Française in NewYork. Guy Sorman writes the text “Free Bodies” for the exhibition catalogue.
2009
First screening of the film The Body Close Up at the Maison Française of New York University in NY.
2008
The photographer and multimedia artist Marilia Destot makes the “photographic” film The Body Close Up, a retrospective documentary which reveals the evolution and artistic challenges of Lopez-Huici’s photography from abstract to figurative art, to a jubilant celebration of the body. The film mixes the artist's photography and her verbal commentary, with musical quotes from writers and musicians close to her work ; and shows for the first time, the live and intimate creation in studio with her models.
2007
At the New York Studio School, the artist shows a selection of her nudes, especially her most recent group seriesRebelles and Triumph, with a catalogue written by Carter Ratcliff.
2006
Exhibits her jazz pictures at the Vision Festival, New York.
In Paris, begins Rebelles, a series of nudes in groups.
2005
Shows the African Wrestlers at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York.
2004
One-person exhibitions at the Musée de Grenoble, France, and at IVAM (Institut Valencià d’Art Modern), Spain. Carter Ratcliff and Edmund White write for the respective catalogues.
2003
Was named a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in Paris.
Travels to West Africa, photographing the African wrestlers Adama and Omar in Dakar, the Master of Ceremonies Keneboubo Ogoire in Mali, and Les Élégantes from Saint Louis du Sénégal.
2001
Following her series In Abstracto, she starts a series of calligraphies on Polaroid titled Attaques.
2000
At FIAC, in Paris, Gallery Frank exhibits a collection of photographs of her favorite models: Aviva, Dalila, Mother and Son, Femme à la toilette, and a new model from New York, Bill Shannon, a paralyzed hip-hop dancer.
1999
First Paris exhibition on the Aviva theme at the Galerie Frank. Arthur Danto writes the catalog for this exhibition. During the show, encounters Dalila Khatir, a future important model in her work.
1996
Second exhibition at the AC Project Room, New York : Aviva. This event becomes a crucial stage in Lopez-Huici’s search for the transgressive body.
1995
To mark her fiftieth birthday and in solidarity with her models, Lopez-Huici places herself before the camera, dancing in the nude, in the 20minute film TOAK.
1994
Exhibition of Solo Absolu, a series on male masturbation, at the AC Project Room Gallery. In conjunction with this show, publication of “A Conversation Between Julia Kristeva and Ariane Lopez-Huici.”
1990
She participates to the group-show “Fragments, Parts, Wholes : The body and culture” at White Columns, New-York, curated by Saul Ostrow, on the theme of the body, and where she presents the male eroticism. Following the show, the critic Jeanne Siegel writes about male sexuality seen by women artists.
1989
Creates the series In Abstracto. Meets dancer Daniel D., who will model for Solo Absolu.
1984
Travels in Italy and develops the series Corps à corps (Body to Body).
1983
At P.S.1 in New York, exhibits a series of photographs taken in Istanbul, entitled The Tombs of Suleiman the Magnificent.
Exhibits at the Los Angeles Photography Center.
1980
Settles into a loft on White Street in Tribeca, New York.
1979
On her second trip to India, she visits and photographs the famous erotic temple of Kajuharo, creating the series Indian ecstasy.
1977
Marries sculptor Alain Kirili.
First one-woman exhibition at Dartmouth College (New Hampshire).
1975
Decides to dedicate herself to photography.
1970
Meets and becomes assistant to Brazilian filmmaker Nelson Pereira dos Santos, widely regarded as the father of Brazil’s Cinema Novo. Travels between France and Rio de Janeiro for five years. Learns lighting and photographic techniques. Develops a long-term attachment to avant-garde cinema and all forms of artistic improvisation.
1965
Studies at the School of Fine Arts, Perugia (Italy) and at the Arts School of the Musée Nissim de Camondo in Paris.
1945
Born in Biarritz, France. Her father, Eugenio Lopez-Huici, is Basque-Chilean; her mother, Evelyne Belly, is from Lorraine. Her great-aunt Eugenia Huici Errazuriz is a patron of the arts, a friend of Stravinsky and Picasso, and the subject of a well-known portrait and series of drawings by Picasso.