Sophie Calle

Sophie Calle born 9 October 1953 is a French writer photographer installation artist and conceptual artist Calles work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints and evokes the French literary movement of the 1960s known as Oulipo Her work frequently depicts human vulnerability and examines identity and intimacy She is recognized for her detectivelike ability to follow strangers and investigate their private lives Her photographic work often includes panels of text of her own writing Since 2005 Calle has taught as a professor of film and photography at European Graduate School in SaasFee Switzerland She has lectured at the University of California San Diego in the Visual Arts Department She has also taught at Mills College in Oakland California Exhibitions of Calles work took place at the Centre Georges Pompidou Paris Hermitage Museum St Petersburg Russia Musée dArt et dHistoire du Judaïsme Paris Paula Cooper Gallery New York Palais des BeauxArts Brussels Belgium Videobrasil SESC Pompeia São Paulo Brazil Museum of Modern Art of Bahia Salvador Brazil Whitechapel Gallery London and the De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art Tilburg Netherlands She represented France at the Venice Biennale in 2007 Landmarks the public art program of The University of Texas at Austin exhibited DoubleBlind 1992 and archived an essay dedicated to Calle and her work on their website In 2017 she was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for her publication My All Actes Sud 2016 In 2019 she was the recipient of the Royal Photographic Societys Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship