Philippe Boissonnet was born in France where he studied visual arts in Angers (Fine-arts school) and Paris (La Sorbonne). He settled in Montreal in 1982 where he completed also his Phd (2013) in arts at University UQAM.  Since 1993, he has been full-­‐time professor of visual and media arts at the Université du Québec à Trois-­Rivières where he is leading a research group in arts (URAV). He received the Elisabeth Greenshields Foundation award (Canada, 1983) and he won the Shearwater Foundation award for Holographic Arts (1998) as well as the Hologram Foundation prize (2018) for his works incorporating light and holograms into installations.

Boissonnet has been part of several artist‐in‐residency programs such as the Dirección Nacional del Antártico (Antarctica, Argentina, 2007), the Center for Holographics Arts of New York (1999 et 2012) and Nat Art Circle Pro Art (Spain, 2022).

Philippe Boissonnet explores the various facets of the appearing or disappearing image, evoking the elusive presence-absence . Through the diffraction and photo-capture of light, he is always seeking to underline the need for a re-enchantment of our view of a ecoanxious world.

Since 1983 Boissonnet’s work has been exhibited in a number of group and solo exhibitions in Canada, United States, UK, Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, Brésil, Australia, Japan, and Europe. His artworks are part of several public and museum collections (Canada, Spain, France)

. The artist thanks SODEC for the making of this website