Jérôme Barbosa was born in 1978. After studying literature at the Sorbonne, he turned to photography in the early 2000s. He worked for a while as a printer and framer for the laboratory Demi-Teinte and as an archivist for the photographer Steve Hiett. In 2007, he spent two months in Athens to follow the drug-addicted community living in the city centre.
These photographs were published in the Greek magazine Kathimerini in 2007 and exhibited at the BarrObjectif festival in 2012. In 2010, he published photographs and drawings in the social criticism magazine Z. In the autumn of 2010, he was spotted, among other things, for his work on Eastern Europe and Athens by the production of Pierre Pinaud’s film Parlez-moi de vous, starring Karin Viard. He joined the filming and became a set photographer. At the same time, he completed the work he started in 2003 on his grandparents’ village in Portugal. He exhibited this reportage at the BarrObjectif festival in 2013.
In 2012, the alternative magazine Un<>Cut published his report on the Atelier du Non-Faire in the United States.
In 2013, the Adrian Bondy – Mind’s Eye gallery dedicated a retrospective exhibition of his work as a photographer and cartoonist, under the title Ni vu ni connu. From 2012 to 2014, he worked occasionally for Cornélius Publishing: writing the biography of Robert Crumb for La crème de Crumb, producing the first three volumes of Nadja’s Filles de Montparnasse and restoring the plates for the second volume of Vie de Mizuki.
From September 2014 to April 2015, he exhibited his drawings under the title Viva la psychose in the three Spacejunk galleries, respectively in Bayonne, Lyon and Grenoble. From September 2015 to April 2016, he participated in a group exhibition on the Lowbrow movement in France. In January 2017, he participated in the exhibition The Vanities. In August and September 2017, at Spacejunk in Bayonne, he exhibited with Morgan Navarro, as part of the retrospective Comics de répétition : filiation entre art contemporain et bande dessinée, initiated by the Frac Aquitaine.
In September 2016, the translation of Ishikawa Takuboku’s Jouet triste (Sad Toy) was published by Editions Arfuyen in collaboration with Alain Gouvret. After collaborating on the tenth issue of Hôpital Brut, Le Dernier Cri exhibited his drawings and photographs in its gallery in May 2016 and published a collection of his drawings entitled 6½ in September of the same year.
The independent magazine Banzaï published a portfolio of ten of his drawings in its Special Horror issue in May 2017Jérôme Barbosa was born in 1978. After studying literature at the Sorbonne, he turned to photography in the early 2000s. He worked for a while as a printer and framer for the laboratory Demi-Teinte and as an archivist for the photographer Steve Hiett. In 2007, he spent two months in Athens to follow the drug-addicted community living in the city centre.
These photographs were published in the Greek magazine Kathimerini in 2007 and exhibited at the BarrObjectif festival in 2012. In 2010, he published photographs and drawings in the social criticism magazine Z. In the autumn of 2010, he was spotted, among other things, for his work on Eastern Europe and Athens by the production of Pierre Pinaud’s film Parlez-moi de vous, starring Karin Viard. He joined the filming and became a set photographer. At the same time, he completed the work he started in 2003 on his grandparents’ village in Portugal. He exhibited this reportage at the BarrObjectif festival in 2013.
In 2012, the alternative magazine Un<>Cut published his report on the Atelier du Non-Faire in the United States.
In 2013, the Adrian Bondy – Mind’s Eye gallery dedicated a retrospective exhibition of his work as a photographer and cartoonist, under the title Ni vu ni connu. From 2012 to 2014, he worked occasionally for Cornélius Publishing: writing the biography of Robert Crumb for La crème de Crumb, producing the first three volumes of Nadja’s Filles de Montparnasse and restoring the plates for the second volume of Vie de Mizuki.
From September 2014 to April 2015, he exhibited his drawings under the title Viva la psychose in the three Spacejunk galleries, respectively in Bayonne, Lyon and Grenoble. From September 2015 to April 2016, he participated in a group exhibition on the Lowbrow movement in France. In January 2017, he participated in the exhibition The Vanities. In August and September 2017, at Spacejunk in Bayonne, he exhibited with Morgan Navarro, as part of the retrospective Comics de répétition : filiation entre art contemporain et bande dessinée, initiated by the Frac Aquitaine.
In September 2016, the translation of Ishikawa Takuboku’s Jouet triste (Sad Toy) was published by Editions Arfuyen in collaboration with Alain Gouvret. After collaborating on the tenth issue of Hôpital Brut, Le Dernier Cri exhibited his drawings and photographs in its gallery in May 2016 and published a collection of his drawings entitled 6½ in September of the same year.
The independent magazine Banzaï published a portfolio of ten of his drawings in its Special Horror issue in May 2017.
Solo exhibitions at Mind’s Eye / Galerie Adrian Bondy
Group exhibitions at Mind’s Eye / Galerie Adrian Bondy
