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Lynn Bianchi is a fine art photographer and multimedia artist who has shown her work in over thirty solo exhibitions and in museums worldwide.

Lynn Bianchi is a New York–based fine art photographer and multimedia artist known for her provocative, humorous, and deeply human explorations of the body, time, and perception. Working across photography, sculpture, and video, Bianchi has created a distinctive visual language that merges sensuality with intellect, and humor with compassion.

After relocating to New York City in 1968, Bianchi immersed herself in the city’s vibrant creative culture and began working with photography. Her early practice was rooted in the tactile processes of the darkroom—silver-gelatin printing, hand-toning, and the delicate application of the gold leaf. From the outset, she treated the photographic print not as a flat record of reality, but as an object of transformation—a physical surface that could hold gesture and emotion.

Bianchi gained international recognition in the 1990s with her celebrated series Heavy in White. These black-and-white photographs depict nude women—often mature, full-figured, and unapologetically present—engaged in rituals of everyday absurdity: dining, playing, or standing in quiet defiance. By combining humor, elegance, and irony, Heavy in White challenged conventional ideals of beauty and the limitations imposed on the female form. Her subjects are not objectified but empowered; they inhabit their own space with joy and authority.

In the years that followed, Bianchi continued to experiment with new materials and modes of seeing. Series such as Geometrics and Women in Landscape integrated the nude with abstract architectural and natural settings, while her Gold Leaf and Beach Transparencies projects extended her exploration of surface and depth through layered transparencies and mixed-media constructions. In these works, photography becomes almost sculptural—an object in motion rather than a static image.

Since 2011, Bianchi has expanded her practice into video, exploring the fluid relationship between stillness and time. Her moving-image works are contemplative, rhythmic, and subtly theatrical, transforming ordinary gestures into meditations on perception. Her recent project New York Minute revisits the city that has shaped her vision, capturing its humor, melancholy, and resilient vitality. Created partly during the pandemic, the series reflects her enduring fascination with empathy and the beauty of imperfection. This work participated in over 20 different film festivals around the world and was shown to the public at Cinema Village and Alamo Drafthouse in New York City.

Bianchi’s photographic work has been shown at Brooklyn Museum, Yale Art Gallery, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland; Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto among others. Servitude I from Heavy In White series was added to the collection of Walker Art Center in 2019. The work is also reproduced in the Walker’s catalogue The Expressionist Figure among such artists as Edgar Degas, Willem de Kooning, David Hockney, Pablo Picasso, etc.

Bianchi’s art has been featured in over forty publications, including The Huffington Post, Analog Forever Magazine, Frames Magazine, Juxtapoz Magazine, Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, Vogue Italia, AnOther Magazine, Phot’Art International, and GEO. Lynn’s work resides in numerous private collections across the globe, including Manfred Heiting’s and Edward Norton’s, as well as in museum collections including Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas, Biblioteque Nationale de France in Paris, Musée Ken Damy in Brescia, Italy and 21c Museum in Louisville, Kentucky among others. She has recently exhibited in New York City at Salmagundi Club, The Untitled Space and 100 Sutton Studios among others.

Lynn’s video projects are frequent winners of Best Experimental Awards and have been shown at various festivals all over the world, including New York Shorts International Film Festival, Odense International Film Festival, Montreal Independent Film Festival, Berlin Shorts Award, Moscow Shorts, Lund Architecture Film Festival, Budapest International Foto Awards, Tokyo International Foto Awards, New Earth International Film Festival in Poland, Toronto Film Magazine Festival.

Throughout her career, Bianchi has sought to reveal the beauty within imperfection and the power within vulnerability. Whether through the shimmer of a gold-toned print or the slow unfolding of a video frame, her work invites viewers to see beyond the surface—to encounter a world where humor and tenderness, strength and fragility, coexist.