Ayline Olukman is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores notions of vulnerability, the unconscious, and wandering. She works across photography, painting, writing, and drawing.Born in Strasbourg, France, in 1981, she graduated from the École des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg in 2005. Between 2006 and 2015, Ayline Olukman alternated between working in her studio in Strasbourg and traveling, which she considers as periods of research for both photography and writing.Following an artist residency at Point B in Brooklyn in 2013, she moved to New York, where she lived and worked until 2018. In June 2018, she was a finalist for the Voies-Off Prize at the Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles. In October 2018, she took part in a residency at the Shangjin International Art Center in China. In 2019, she won the Verzasca Foto Festival in Switzerland, where her work was exhibited.Her third book, La Mue, published in 2019, was selected by the PH Museum as one of the best photobooks of the year. In 2020, she was nominated by Freelens for the Mentor Award. Her fourth book, Elysian Fields, was published in November 2021 by Médiapop Editions and traces fifteen years of her work as a painter.In April 2023, she opened the exhibition Un Jardin Secret at the Maison des Douanes in Saint-Palais-sur-Mer. In April 2024, she presented her solo show Idyll at the Nicolas Auvray Gallery in New York. Her fifth book, Our Wild Lives, will be published by Médiapop Editions in September 2024.