Born in 1966 in Bourg-en-Bresse, France. Lives and works in Paris. Véronique Ellena is a visual artist who studied photography at ENSAV La Cambre in Brussels. She has received several public commissions (CNAP in Paris, André Malraux Museum in Le Havre). Her work is part of many public and private collections such as Centre Georges Pompidou, FNAC, FRAC Île-de-France, Florence & Damien Bachelot collection.
She exhibited at the Rencontres d'Arles in 2009 where she was presented by Christian Lacroix as part of the Discovery Award. In 2018 she is invited by the Réattu Museum in Arles for a retrospective of her work. And in 2019, some of her works are selected for the exhibition Elles question de genre at the Paul Dini Museum (Villefranche sur Saône). In November 2019, her work will be part of the collections of the new Museum of Cultures and Landscape in Hyères.She obtained prestigious residences (Villa Medicis, Foundation of Treilles) as well as the “Liliane Bettencourt Prize for the intelligence of the hand” for the Millenium Stained Glass of Strasbourg Cathedral.
