SELFPORTRAIT (POLAROID), 2026
Matthieu Croizier (b. 1994) is a Franco-Swiss photographer working between Lausanne and Paris. His work focuses on the intimate, queer issues, portraiture and the representation of the human body.

REPRESENTED BY

Chapters
contact@chapters.paris


PRINTS & INQUIRIES

croiziermatthieu@gmail.com
Phone: +41 77 407 94 93

LICENSING

Connected Archives
ca@connected-archives.com

CLIENTS 

M le magazine du Monde
Esquire Italy
On Running
Salomon
Zeit Magazine
NR Magazine
Les Inrockuptibles
Autre Magazine
Novembre Magazine
Dazed Beauty
Grazia
Têtu
Fisheye Magazine
T le magazine du Temps
En vols (Air France Magazine)
Monocle
Pro Helvetia
Das Magazin
Art Basel
F.A.Z. Quarterly
Zenith Watches
Caolion
Maison Saint-Gervais
La Becque
Revue Maison


EDUCATION

Bachelor of Photography, ECAL, Lausanne, CH, 2020
CFC of Photography, CEPV, Vevey, CH, 2017


AWARDS

PhMuseum 2024 Photography Grant, finalist
VFG Young Talent Award 2022, First Prize
British Journal of Photography’s Ones to Watch 2021

Futures Talent 2021
Laureate of the Carte Blanche Students 2020, organized by Paris Photo, Picto Foundation, and SNCF Gares & Connexions.

PUBLICATION

Everything goes dark a little further down, published by Morël Books, 2024.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2025
Gen Z: Shaping A New Gaze, reGeneration, Photo Elysée, Lausanne, CH, 19.09.2025 – 01.02.2026
Love, Maybe, group show, Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, Munich, DE, 06.02 - 03.07.2025
That Moment When You Can See The Crack In The World, solo show, PhMuseum Lab, Bologna, IT, 06.02 - 04.03.25
2024
What to do with tenderness ?, group show, Kunsthalle Trier, DE, 07.12.2024 - 16.02.2025
21x29,7,
group show, galerie Sébatsien Lepeuve, Paris, FR, 13.06 - 13.07.24
FEEL/FIRE,
group show, Centre Contemporain d’Yverdon-les-Bains, CH, 04.02-14.04.24
2023
Encontros da Imagem 2023, Braga, PT, 15.09 —28.10.23
Verzasca Foto Festival 2023, Gordola, CH, 03.09–08.10.23
Swiss Design Awards 2023, Messe Basel, CH, June 13-18, 2023
2022
Prix Photoforum 2022, group show, Photoforum Pasquart, Biel/Bienne, CH, Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
PhotoVogue Fashion 100, PhotoVogue Festival 2022, Milan, IT, Nov 2022
Some kinds of queery, group show, cusp., Hangzhou, CN, 25 Sept - 25 Nov 2022
Hadal Zone, solo show, Journée des Arts 2022, Nyon, CH, Nov 2022- Jungkunst 2022, group show, Wintherthur, CH, Oct 2022- PhotoOpenUp Festival, Padova, IT, Sept - Nov 2022 - VFG Young Talent Award 2022, collective exhibition & publication, Haus der Fotografie, Olten, CH, Sept 2022
Athens Photo Festival 2022, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece, 8 June - 24 July 2022
Palm Photo Prize 2022, 1014 Galery, London, UK, May 2022
2021
Photo Vogue Festival 2021, Digital Portfolio Review, Nov 2021
21, group show, Gallery Sebastien Lepeuve, Paris, FR, Sept-Oct 2021
Photo Schweiz 2021, Zurich, CH, June 2021
Queer Is Not Anti, Queer festival Heidelberg, DE, May 2021
bouffer / friss, le pied / die Füsse, duo show, StudioQ90, Bienne, CH, May 2021
2020
Carte Blanche Students 2020, Paris Gare du Nord, FR, organized by Paris Photo, Picto Foundation et SNCF Gares & Connexions, Sept-Dec 2020
ECAL Diplômes 2020, October 2020
Le livre comme espace photographique, Mulhouse Biennial of Photography, July 20202019 Noorderlicht Futurama, Noorderlicht International Photo Festival, Museum Belvédère, NL, 2019
Brutal 003, Paris Photo, galery Au Roi, Paris, FR, 2019
Contrapuntos de la caverna, group show, Guadalajara, MX, 2019

FEATURES

IMA Magazine, Vol.44, AW 2025
NR Magazine, October 2024
Metal Magazine, September 2024
Fisheye Magazine, September 2024
Kaltblut Magazine, May 2023
Novembre Magazine, April 2023
Palm Studios, January 2023
Uzbek & Rica, n°33, September 2021
Der Greif, September 2021
Lens Culture, August 2021
Creative Review, Exposure, February 2021
Der Greif, Guest Room Online Exhibition, curated by Mariama Attah, December 2020
Magazine de l’Air, n°76 – Spécial 20 ans, Winter 2020-21
Paper Journal, We love, December 2020
Novembre Magazine, August 2019
Dazed Beauty, June 2019  






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