Ayline Olukman is a multidisciplinary artist whose work addresses the notion of unconscious, vulnerability and wandering. She uses photography, painting, writing and drawing. Born in Strasbourg, France in 1981, she graduated from the Ecole des Decorative Arts of Strasbourg in 2005.
Between 2006 and 2015, Ayline Olukman alternates between periods of workin her studio in Strasbourg and travels, which she considers as research phases to photograph and write. After a residency in 2013 at Point B in Brooklyn, she settled and works in New York until 2018. In June 2018 she was nominated finalist of the Voies-Off at the Rencontres de
the photography of Arles. In October 2018, she participated in the International Art Center of Shangjin in China. She won the Verzasca Foto Festival 2019 (Switzerland), where it is exhibited. His third book, Moulting, published in 2019, is selected among the best photo books 2019 by the PH Museum. In 2020 she is nominated by Freelens for the Mentor prize for her serve Moulting. Her 4th book Elysian Fields, is published in 2021. In 2023 she opens her first museum exhibition at La Maison des douanes at St-Palais-sur-Mer.
