Pierre Tremblay

Biography

Pierre Tremblay is an artist whose work has been exhibited for the past twenty years and appears in a number of public and private collections in Canada and France. Tremblay, who is currently the Visual Studies Assistant-Professor at Ryerson University in Toronto, was born in Québec City and lived and worked for many years in Paris. He has a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts (Art et Technologies de l’Image) from University of ParisVIII.
From 1989 until 1998, he worked as a Multimedia designer at Bayard Presse in Paris. From 1994 through 1996, he also taught advanced computer imaging at the Paris branch of the Parson`s School of Design. Since 1998, he has been based in Toronto.

His practice over the years has moved through different media. His interest in moving images and sound questions the world in flux and how we see and perceive. In the last few years, he has been interested in revisiting the traditional art genres of portraiture and landscape. His latest exploration questioning the traditional genre of landscape and seeing multiple moments at once has been exhibited this year in film festivals in Montreal, Perth, Australia, Xiamen, China and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
With collaborator Don Snyder, Tremblay created and organized the 2003 conference Quebec/Ontario New Works, New Forms, a biennial event slated for Montreal in 2006.
Tremblay has also been the coordinator for the French visiting artist program at the School of Image Arts since his arrival at Ryerson. This program brought him to create exhibitions, catalogues and to participate in a number of juries in France and Canada. He continues to collaborate actively with the prestigious art school, le Fresnoy in France – currently working with a team of students and faculty from Ryerson and le Fresnoy on a film series about three Toronto artists and their connections to place – the first film subject is Michael Snow.