SOLO EXHIBITIONS :

2008
« Même pas Peur », Cité du Livre, Aix en Provence, France

2009
« Benjamin Lacombe », Galerie Daniel Maghen, Paris, France

2010
« Contes », L’usine, Belfort, France

« Dessins Inanimés » Festival d’Animation d’Annecy, La Turbine , Annecy, France

2011
« L’Etrange Parade de Benjamin Lacombe »
Musée du Graphisme / Les Moulins de Villancourt, Echirolles, France

« Memories », Galerie Daniel Maghen, Paris, France

2013
«Ephemère», Galerie Daniel Maghen, Paris, France

"Benjamin Lacombe", Museo ABC, Madrid, Espagne

SELECTIVE GROUP EXHIBITIONS :

2008
- « Pop Subversion », Ad Hoc Art Gallery, New York, USA - « Freaks Club », Galerie l’Art de rien, Paris, France

- « Eat me, drink me », Galerie l’Art de rien, Paris, France - « French illustration », Galerie Maruzen, Tokyo, Japon

2009
- « Borderlove », Dorothy Circus Gallery, Rome, Italie

- « Melancholia », Galerie l’Art de rien, Paris, France

- « Métamorphose », Galerie Arludik, Paris, France

- « Alice in Wonderland » ( Tim Burton Tribute Show ), Galerie Arludik, Paris, France

2010
- « Enchanté », Nucleus Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

- « Scisorshands 20th », ( Tim Burton Tribute Show ), Nucleus Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2011
- « Les Sales gosses », Galerie l’Art de rien, Paris, France

2012
- « Bookshow », Galerie Daniel Maghen, Paris, France - « Fairy Tales », Biwako Biennale, Biwako, Japon

- « Rêve de monuments », La Conciergerie, Centre des monuments nationaux, Paris, France

2013
- « Biwako Biennale », Biwako, Kyoto, Japan

- « Notre Dame de Paris » , Maison Victor Hugo ( Victor Hugo Museum), Paris, France

Benjamin Lacombe is a French author and illustrator born in Paris on July 12th, 1982. He is one of the head representatives of the new French illustration.
In 2001, he enteted the École Nationale Supé´rieure des Arts Décoratifs ( ENSAD ) in Paris, where he pursued his artistic training. While in school, he also worked in advertising and animation. Then, at the age of 19, he published his first grahic novel and several other illustrated books...
His final school project, Cerise Griotte ( Cherry and Olive ), witch he wrote and il- lustrated in its entirety, became his first children’s book and was published by Seuil Jeunesse in March 2006. It was published the following year by Walker Books ( USA ) and listed as one of Time Magazine’s 10 best children’s book in 2007.
Since then, Benjamin Lacombe has written and illustrated a number of books. Several of these have been translated and released all over the world : Les Amants Papillons ( The Butterfly Lovers ), Généalogie d’une sorcière ( Genealogy of a Witch ), La Mélodie des Tuyaux ( Pipe Song ), Il était une fois... ( Once upon a Time... ), Les contes Macabres ( Takes of the Macabre ) or even L’Herbier des fées ( The Fairy Herbrarium ).
Benjamin Lacombe regularly exhibits his works, most prominenly with the following galleries : Ad Hoc Art ( New York ), Dorothy Circus ( Rome ), Maruzen ( Tokyo ), Nucleus ( Los Angeles ), and Daniel Maghen Gallery ( Paris )...
Benjamin lives and works in Paris with his dogs, Virgile and Lisbeth, who are always sneaking in his books...