Ariane Lopez-Huici is a photographer living between New-York and Paris.

Following her art studies, she becomes in 1970, the assistant of the Brazilian filmmaker Nelson Pereira dos Santos, father of Brazil's Cinema Novo. She learns lighting and photographic techniques, develops a long-term attachment to the avant-garde cinema and is attracted to all forms of artistic improvisation. In 1975, she decides to dedicate herself to photography and does her first one-woman exhibition at Dartmouth College in 1977. In 1980, she moves and settles in New York with her husband, the sculptor Alain Kirili. In 2004, two major retrospectives of her work are exhibited in the Museum of Grenoble, France, and at the IVAM in Valencia, Spain. In 2008, the New York Studio School presents a retrospective of her most recent works.

Her work focuses on the human body, transgressing the conventional canon of beauty. Accentuating the shadowy areas of the human adventure, she uses black and white photography with a pronounced grain and deep blacks. Her series Aviva, Dalila, and Holly shows her passion for Rubenesque bodies. Her african series Adama&Omar and Kenekoubo Ogoïre develops her interest for any kind of physical and sensual expression. Her most recent series Rebelles and Triumph deal with a group of voluptuous women asserting their majesty.

Connected to the incredible rich world of the free jazz improvisation, she records in depth many of the most talented musicians, publishing for exemple the serie the flying hands of Cecil Taylor.