Colton, Austin, Texas 2019 / Plan américain
Scarlett Coten is a recipient of the Grant from the French Ministry of Culture’s Grande Commission 2022 under the direction of the French National Library (BnF) and of the Documentary Photography Grant 2024 from the CNAP (National Center for Visual Arts). She was awarded the Leica Oskar Barnack prize 2016 for her series « Mectoub » on new masculinities in North Africa and the Middle East.
The « M » trilogy received a Gold Honor in Professional Storytelling in 1839 Award’s Color Photography 24, and was shortlisted in the Athens photo festival and Belfast photo festival this year. Plan américain has been selected for the Photography Now 2021 show at the Center for Photography at Woodstock, USA, a finalist for Sony World Photography Awards 2019, the PHmuseum Photography prize, the Grand Prix ImageSingulières de la Photographie Documentaire, the Musée Albert-Kahn Grant, and part of the TOP 50 of Critical Mass 2018.
November 6 /November 10, 2024
PARIS PHOTTO FAIR: Trilogie M, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, stand C31, Grand Palais, Paris, France
October 24 /November 30, 2024
Exhibition: Trilogie M, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France
September 20 /December 21, 2024
Exhibition: Trilogie M, Le Château Coquelle, Dunkirk, France
July 2024
Winner of the Documentary Photography Grant from the CNAP (National Center for Visual Arts)
June 2024
Acquisition of art by the Regional Fund for Contemporary Art (FRAC Bretagne)
Winner 1839 Award’s Color Photography 24 / Gold Honor in Professional Storytelling
Shortlisted for the second round of judging for the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize
Athens photo festival, Finalist
Belfast photo festival, Finalist
March 19 /June 23, 2024
Exhibition: « La France sous leurs yeux, 200 regards de photographes sur les années 2020 », BnF François-Mitterrand, Paris, France
January 2024
Publication: « Ein Mann wird nicht zum opfer », Couverture et Portfolio in: an.schläge – das feministische Magazin, Austria
November 3 – 5, 2023
Festival LES NUITS PHOTO, screening of the video film: « M », L’entrepôt, Paris
October 2023
Publication: « La disparition de James Bond » in: « Les petits pas des français », L’Obs, France
July 2023
Publication: Artlyst « Rencontres d’Arles 2023 / A Captivating & Enthralling Edition » – by Virginie Puertolas- Sun, UK
November 5, 2022 / February 5, 2023
Exhibition: Parallel Lives: Photography, Identity, and Belonging, curated by Maya Benton, Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW), Kingston, USA
December 2022
Book: Les rencontres Photographiques des Amis du Musée Albert Khan, Editions Sous la Glycine, France
May 21 / June 25, 2022
Exhibition: « Nu pour tous, Tous pour nu! », Espace Sinibaldi, Arles, France
November 2022
Publication: « Scarlett Coten, la fotografia como acto de desobediancia« , Kamera Magazine N°4, Spain
April 2022
Winner of « Radioscopie de la France« / Grande commande photographique du ministère de la culture pilotée par la BnF
March 2022
Acquisition of Art by the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP), France
November 25 – 28, 2021
Exhibition: « Féminin Pluriel », Espace Commines, curated by Aline Pujo, Paris, France
July 6 – September 25, 2021
Exhibition: M / Mectoub & Plan américain, TAPIS ROUGE, Arles, France
June 5 – 20, 2021,
Exhibition: « Plan américain », screening of a video film, Festival Présence(s) photographie, Montélimar, France
December 2020
PHmuseum Editors’ Top Projects of 2020: the most solid projects uploaded to our community this year: Plan américain
October 2020
Exhibition: « 40 years of Leica Oskar Barnack Award », Ernst Leitz Museum, Wetzlar, Germany
September 2020
Winner, Jury Award, Festival des Nuits Photographiques de Pierrevert, France
August 2020
Critical Mass Top 200, USA
July 15 – August 15, 2020
Exhibition: « Inside Out », screening of a video film, Espace MLB, Arles, France
July 2020
Verazca Foto Awards, Switzerland, Finalist
June 2020
Publication: « 13 femmes en paravent », IDEAT, France
June 2020
Publication: Internazionale extra « La fragilità dell’ uomo arabo », Italia
April 2020
Book: « 40 years of Leica Oskar Barnack Award », Leica Camera AG, Germany
October 19 – 27, 2019
Exhibition: « Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition », Espace photographique de Sauroy, Paris, France
September 2019
Publication: « Redefining Gender Stereotypes in Contemporary America », PHmuseum, Story of the Week
July 2019
ITW: « To be a woman artist is to be a warrior« , World Photography Organisation, UK
June 15-16, 2019
Exhibition: « Patriarchy is burning », Palais de Tokyo, Paris / Gang of Witches Festival
June 2019
Grand Prix ImageSingulières de la Photographie Documentaire, Finalist, France
May 2019
Bourse du Musée Albert-Kahn, Finalist, France
April 18 – May 6, 2019
Exhibition: « Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition », Somerset House, London, UK
April 2019
Main prize, PHmuseum 2019 Photography Grant, Finalist
March 2019
Professional competition, Portraiture, 2019 Sony World Photography Awards, Shortlisted
Feb 2019
Exhibition: « Chelsea International Photography Competition « , Agora Galerie, New York, USA
Jan 2019
Selected, Chico Hot Springs Portfolio Review, USA
Dec 2018
Publication: WYWYMAGAZINE « Point of view: Scarlett Coten « Plan américain » and « Mectoub »
Nov 2018
Publication: I-D « 5 photographers reimagining masculinity‘, UK
Nov 2018
Radio: France Info « La femme du jour: Scarlett Coten, photographe »
Nov 2018
« Chelsea International Photography Competition », Top 5 selected artists, New York, USA
Nov 2018
Exhibition: « ALL THAT MAN IS – Fashion and Masculinity Now », Photo Vogue Festival, Milano, Italia
Oct 2018
Publication: « Photo Vogue Festival: Embracing diversity and the many shades of masculinity« , British Journal of Photography, UK
Sept 2018
Critical Mass Top 50, USA
Sept 7 – Dec 12, 2018
Exhibition: « Looking at You: Intimate Portraiture », juried by Photographer Jess T Dugan in the frame of PHOTO–EMPHASIS, Corridor Gallery, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, USA
May 2018
Publication: Vogue.it « Mectoub » and « Plan américain »
May 2018
Publication: ELLE.it « Mectoub », Italia
April 2018
The New York Times Portfolio Review, NY, USA
April 2018
Publication: « Breach of Close »: Eluding Destiny , »Mectoub »
Dec 2017
Publication: FemmesPHOTOgraphes / Revue n°3, « Plan américain », France
Dec 2017
Publication: CNN, « Mectoub »
Nov 2017
Publication: Art Emperor / Taiwan, « Mectoub »
Nov 2017
Publication: The Guardian, « Mectoub », UK
Oct 2017
Book: Firecrackers : Female Photographers Now, Thames and Hudson Publication, London
Oct 2017
ITW: CultureSecrets Magazine, France
Sept / Nov 2017
Exhibition: « Mectoub », Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris / Second edition of the Biennial of Photography in the Contemporary Arab World
June 2017
Publication: Lomography Magazine, « Mectoub »
Dec 2016 / Jan 2017
Exhibition: « Mectoub », Galerie Spree, Paris
Nov 2016
Exhibition: Leica presents the Oscar Barnack Award 2016, « Mectoub », at Paris Photo