Lynn Bianchi

Fine Art Photography and Multimedia

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Bombarded by the constant flux of information injected into our lives by technology, we are losing our ability to contemplate. But can technology be turned upon itself and help us feel in a deep, spiritual way? In my work, I combine still photography and video to capture these extended moments of reflection and allow for the grandeur and magic of The Everyday to unfold. I see my video work as an extension of the still image. This combination of moving and still images expresses our shifting internal gestures – a meditation, where the Eternal is reconciled with the Quotidian

Bio

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.

  • "New York-based artist Lynn Bianchi‘s “Spaghetti Eaters” is a wonderfully body-positive photography series that proves the only way to enjoy carbs is sans clothing."

    — PRISCILLA FRANK, THE HUFFINGTON POST

  • "Photographs of Lynn Bianchi are placed in a neoclassic setting, thus evocating the charcoal sketches of antique ruins. They portray candid female nudes, often in non-canonical proportions, on white backgrounds, questioning our perception of the body and the usual conception of beauty."

    — ROBERTA FRANCESCHETTI, ITALIAN VOGUE

  • "Lynn Bianchi’s images are a reminder that the nude expresses not only the range of human beauty, but also the question of what constitutes perfection. These photographs offer all of us a confirmation of our ability to triumph over the inevitability of nature."

    — BARBARA HEAD MILLSTEIN, CURATOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, BROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK

  • "There are photographs that can be experienced physically. You might not quite understand them but you’d still feel a kind of magnetism – created precisely by the lack of understanding, by some mystery.” […] Lynn Bianchi’s images are filled with subtle eroticism. But desire itself is not directed to the body but somehow outside of it. […] Lynn Bianchi hasn’t invented anything new, but she opened our eyes to a simple truth: be who you want to be. […] Layers of emotions reflected in her photographs are difficult to grasp or express in words. Lynn doesn’t follow any rules, she just shows us what she feels-she reveals her inner world. Each photograph is a part of that world that Lynn conveys to us with such dedication."

    — VLADIMIR NESKOROMNY, FOTO & VIDEO MAGAZINE, MOSCOW

  • "Lynn Bianchi continues to maintain the purity of her approach: her exaltation of form and expression is passionate."

    — ENRICA VIGANO, ZOOM MAGAZINE

  • "In her photographs, female nudes change form, overflow, and multiply. While deconstructing, as classic text, the voluptuous female nudes of ancient Greek sculpture or Renoir."

    — UENO CHIZUKO, “LOVES BODY,” THE TOKYO METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY

  • "Lynn Bianchi’s delicate photographs, “Heavy In White,” suptiously define the characteristics of Femininity: her physical body, love for the excess, her need for others, her joys, her pain, her fears, her desires, her intimacy, her jealousies, her playfulness. The beautiful printed images render the atmosphere of a steam bath which when viewed at a distance seem more like a drawing than a photograph."

    — CELINA LUNSFORD, DIRECTOR, FOTOGRAFIE FORUM INTERNATIONAL, FRANKFURT, GERMANY

  • "Bianchi’s images combine a cool radiant classicism with a touch of humor to create a timeless vision of woman."

    — JOHN BENNETTE, CRITIC/CURATOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

  • "[Lynn Bianchi’s] humorous chocolate box [enables] participants to “cash in” on their appetites for chocolates. […] When depressed, the lever at right rings, and the bottom drawer opens to reveal an assortment of artfully arranged chocolates, each wrapped in gold foil, overlaying a photograph of frolicking femmes enjoying their own sweets."

    — DAILE KAPLAN, CURATOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

  • "Bianchi’s stunning photographic tableaux present powerful, mythological female figures interacting in scenarios ranging from the earthly to the ethereal. Each exquisite image from this wiser world features an illuminated globe, reminding viewers of the constant and universal life force at the center of existence. Bianchi’s The Dinner Conversation portrays pure joy. Her subjects burst through in full color reveling in what it ifs to be alive and surrounded by friends. In this work, Bianchi digs deeper into what it means to let go of rules and break the constraints of convention."

    — SAMANTHA HARVEY, AUTHOR