Born in Apt, Provence, France, 1950.

Educated at The Lycée d'Apt in Provence, 1962-1969.

Studied at The Sorbonne, Paris, 1969-1973 (Master's degree of Philosophy 1973).

Painting from 1966 to 1976.

Photographic Settings from 1977 to 1995.

About 300 individual exhibitions since 1977, in Western Europe, The United States and Japan, frequent shows at Léo Castelli, New York, Agathe Gaillard and Yvon Lambert, Paris.

Decides in 1995 to suspend his own photographic work.

Organizes from 1997 to 2000, in twenty countries in the world, the event "The Happiest Day of My Youth" involving one hundred young people in each country.

Publishes in 1999 his first book of texts only: La peur du voyage.

Main recipient: Grand Prix National, France, 1989.
 

Les Grandes Vacances, Herscher, Paris 1980
Les Papiers qui Volent, Hazan, Paris 1986
Les Chambres d'Amour, William Blake, Bordeaux 1987
Tables d'Amis, William Blake, 1991
Les Écritures, William Blake, 1993
Jours d'Image, Tréville, Tokyo 1995
La Fin de l'Image, William Blake 1997
Chambres d'Amour, Chambres d'Or, William Blake 1998
La Peur du Voyage, William Blake 1999
Le Plus Beau Jour de ma Jeunesse, Éditions de l'Imprimeur, Paris 2000
La Plus Belle Route du Monde, avec Antonin Potoski, POL, Paris 2000
Atelier Faucon à Pingyao, Édition de l'Oeil, Paris, 2004
Bernard Faucon, Actes Sud, Arles, 2005.

Books in English:

Summer Camp, Xavier Moreau, New York 1980

Books in Japanese and French:

Les Papiers qui Volent, Parco, Tokyo 1986
Les Idoles et les Sacrifices, Parco, Tokyo 1991
Dernier Portrait, Nanasaï, Kyoto 1991
Jours d'Image, Tréville, Tokyo 1995

Books in Korean:

La plus belle route, Maumsanchak, Seoul, 2001
Les chambres, Maumsanchak, Seoul, 2004
 

Full list of one-man and group exhibitions, and collections holding Faucon's work, on request to serious collectors and institutions.