Pierre Tremblay

Interdisciplinary artist, Pierre Tremblay is a Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University, School of Image Arts. His artistic practice, combining new technologies and video, questions the world in flux, how we see and perceive. His work can be found in Paris in the collections of the Musée Carnavalet, the Bibliothèque nationale, and the Musée Rodin, as well as the Louise Bourgeois Archives, housed at The Easton Foundation, New York, USA. Exhibitions of note include 300 Days of Indulgence – Negotiating with the Beyond, Continuum, Portraits in a Sentence, Pools, Meta Incognita at The Photographers’ Gallery – The Wall, London, England and Dans la nuit des images, at the Grand Palais, Paris. He had made numerous films exploring artistic practice including features on creators such as Max Dean, Michael Snow, R. Bruce Elder, Anna Ridler, Magali Desbazeille and Jake Elwes. He also continues to work on an extended series of ArtWalk films. Tremblay’s films have been screened at international festivals such as FIFA and Videoformes at Clermont Ferrand. In his role at TMU, Tremblay has facilitated conferences and edited books that have brought scholars and artists from Ontario, Quebec and France together for cross-cultural exchange on a variety of new media topics. Together with Gerda Cammaer, he is the co-founder and curator of Moving-Image-Arts, a thematic International short film festival that takes place annually in the School of Image Arts.