Born : a long time ago
Where : North

Doctorate (Ph. D.) in Studies and Practices of Arts
Université du Québec à Montréal, 2012

Thesis: La Fenêtre Brisée - Traité de Perspective Appliqué à
l'Holographie de Synthèse (2012) in french.

  
My hands, Hologram, 1999,
40cm X 30cm

Exhibitions :

• April 2nd to 4th 2024: Timeworld Energy, Trois-Rivières, Québec.

• April 4th to June 21st 2023: Real/Virtual - Holograms from the 1970s-2000s, selected from the Jonathan Ross Collection, Gallery 286, London, U,K.

• September 16th to November 30th 2022 : Holograms – Dimensions in Light, HoloCenter, Cornell Creative Arts Center, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.

• October 26th to November 18th 2019 : Surrealist Drawing in 2019, Maison André Breton, Saint-Cirq-
  Lapopie, France.
• September 19th to October 20th 2019 : Surrealist Drawing in 2019, Amarrage, St-Ouen, France.
• September 8th to October 28th 2018 : International Biennale of Artists Sketchbooks, Beauport Society for the Arts and History, Quebec, Canada. - Third prise. 

• January 12th to February 18th 2017: HB no.6 / Hors Page, Clark Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

• May 27th to September 25th 2016 : Holograms, Center for the Holographic Arts, New York, U.S.

• January 24th to April 10th 2016, Espace donné - Temps abandonné, Solo exhibition, Centre National d'Exposition, Jonquiere, Quebec, Canada.

• March 2016: Las llaves des deseo - International surrealist exhibition, Museo de Cartago, Costa Rica.

• June 2014: La Chasse à l’Objet du Désir – International Surrealist Exhibition of the Liaison Surréaliste, Gallery Espace, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

• June 2012 to September 2015: The Jeweled Net: Views of Contemporary Holography, M.I.T. Museum, Cambridge MA, U.S.

• October 2011 : Holography – The Art of Shaping Light. Two synthetic holograms, Center for 4D Arts, Hudson Beach Glass, Beacon, New York, U.S.A.

• October 2010 : The Broken Window. Synthetic holograms, panoramic drawings and photographs, Arts Library, U.Q.A.M., Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (solo exhibition).

• September 2010 : Holograms, The Next Dimension Gallery, Dubai.

• October 2009 : Hot and Cold. Two panoramic drawings, galerie Verticale, Laval, Quebec, Canada.

• July 2009 : International Symposium on Display Holography. Five holograms, Shenzhen, China.

• Summer 2008 : Drawing Biennale, Mont-St-Hilaire Museum.

• May 2008 : Projection, V-Mac Gallery, Toronto.

• May 2008 : Transparency and opacity, FOTEO 2008. Galerie des Arts Visuels, Quebec.

• 2006 : Virtual Systems and Multimedia 2006, Xi’an, China.

• 2005 : Extreme Nature, United Nations Climate Change Conference; Montreal.

• 2005 : Multiple dimensions of Holography, Chicoutimi College.

• 1992: Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, U.S.

• 1991-1992 : Mi-Vrai, Mi-Faux, Quebec Civilisation Museum.

• 1990 : Images du Futur, Montreal.

• 1989: Expotec, Montreal.

Publications & Conferences :

• "Quality requirements for fine art synthetic holograms", in : SPIE Proceedings Volume 11102, Applied Optical Metrology III; 111020W, San Diego CA, U.S.A. 2019.

• "The dispositif of holography", in : Arts, 8 (1), 28, February 26th ,2019.

• Aphorisms and drawings in : "La Chasse à l’Objet du Désir", Catalog of the International Surrealist Exhibition presented by the Liaison Surréaliste, Ed. Sonámbula, Montreal 2014.
• Traiter du trait", in : "Le Bathyscaphe", Spring 2014, p. 10-11.
• Drawings in : "Les Cités Légendaires I and II", Guy Cabanel, Editions Sonámbula, Montreal, 2012 and 2021.
• "Content metamorphosis in synthetic holography", in: Proceedings of the 9^th International Symposium on Display Holography, Journal of Physics - Conference Series, Vol. 415, June 2012, IOPScience, Cambridge, É.U.
  Conference video
• "Dessiner", foreword in : "Dans l’écrin des jours noirs", Bernar Sancha, Editions Sonámbula, Montreal, 2011.
• "Experiments in image composition for synthetic holography", in: Holography-Culture, Art, and Information Technology - Proceedings of the 8^th International Symposium on Display Holography, Scientific and Technical Documentation Press, Shenzhen, Chine, July 2009, pp. 169-177.
  Conference video
• "The perspectives of synthetic holography", in: Holography-Culture, Art, and Information Technology - Proceedings of the 8^th International Symposium on Display Holography, Scientific and Technical Documentation Press, Shenzhen, Chine, July 2009, pp. 592-600.
  Conference video
• "Devant, Dans, Autour : éléments de composition en imagerie spatiale", conference at the colloque Faire Œuvre : Transparence et Opacité. May 22^nd 2008, Laval University, Quebec.Published in: Proceedings of  Faire Œuvre : Transparence et Opacité. Automn 2009, Laval University, Quebec.
• Five drawings in: Cahiers de l’umbo nº10, winter 2007 and n°11, Autumn 2008. Annemasse, France.
• "Nomadic Perspectives – Spatial Representation in Oriental Scroll Painting and Holographic Panoramagrams"; Conference and exhibition at the International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM2006); October 18^th 2006, Xi’an, China. Publication in : Interactive Technologies and Sociotechnical Systems – Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, VSMM 2006; Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Vol 4270, 2006, pp. 504-513.
• Composition Multidimensionnelle en Holographie générée par ordinateur; Conference at the 74^e congress of the Association Francophone pour le Savoir (A.C.F.A.S.); « Media Arts », Montreal,  May 15th 2006.
• Experimental drawing; Conferences on my approach in drawing; U.Q.A.M., October 2004, October 2005, May 2006.
• Les Dimensions Multiples de l’Holographie; Conference and exhibition, Chicoutimi College; November 2005.
• Catoptrique et Illusions Spatiales, Espace, # 31, spring 1995.
• Displays for 3D Real Imaging, conference : “3DMT – International Conference of Three-Dimensional Media Technology”, Montreal, November 1992.
• Illusionistic Imaging and A New Version of the Distorted Room, Ylem, Vol.11, # 6-7, July 1991.
• Imax et Omnimax: vers le Cinéma Total, Québec-Science, vol. 26, # 11, July 1988.

Recent Bibliography :

• The Visual language of Holograms, Paula Dawson, in : Advanced Holography - Metrology and Imaging, Ed. Izabela Naydenova, InTech Chapters, November 2011, pp. 329-356.

• Dimensional Art" Linda Law, dans : Computer Graphic World, July 2008, pp. 26-31. www.cgw.com.

• Les hologrammes : un voyage fascinant au coeur de l'image., Binh An Vu Van, dans : Le Code Chastenay, Télé-Québec, 10 mars 2008.

• Synthetic dynamic holograms, Paul Bourke, April 2007.

• Hologrammes nouvelle génération", E. Bergeron, in : Découvrir, march-april 2006, V.27 #2, p.17.

 

Awards :

• Septembre 2018: Third prise - International Biennale of Artists Sketchbooks, Beauport Society for the Arts and History, Quebec, Canada.

• July 2009 : Nick Phillips Award" ; 8^th International Symposium on Display Holography (ISDH), 2009, Shenzhen, China.