Christian Chaize, a self-taught artist, lives and works in Lyon, France. In 1992, he was awarded the Prix European Panorama de Kodak for Young European Photographer in Arles, France. In addition to his artistic achievements, he has procured a successful career as a commercial photographer.
In 2004, Chaize became obsessed with a small stretch of coastline in southern Portugal, which gave new life to his ongoing personal work. Since then, his commitment to the series Praia Piquinia (where he now photographs several times a year) has garnered Chaize two museum shows in Portugal (Sines and Lisbon), in addition to gallery representation and exhibitions in New York and Berlin. To Praia Grande and Paradis are additional series in progress; in the Fall of 2011, the former debuted in Berlin, the latter in New York.
