Artist Statement/ Biography

Mathieu Grenier’s work focuses on how display technologies structures our perceptions of space and image. The screen is this platform where we express ourselves and organize our ideas. We build our identity and shape our intellect through those. We are constantly interconnected. The image reveals itself through a technological space, which convey a formatted experience. Grenier experiments with techniques that extend photography from its 2D surface and explores possible paths of an hybrid practice of photography and installation art. By using photo assemblages, alternative photography processes and designing furniture and metal structures, which he call « framing devices », Grenier brings us into an experience of the materiality of various typology of images.

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Mathieu Grenier lives and works in Montreal. He holds a B.F.A. in Visual and Media Arts from the UQÀM and an MFA in photography and media at The University of Texas at Austin. He also went on an exchange program at The Royal College of Art in London. Grenier’s work has been presented in Canada, France, USA. and the UK. In 2014 he received the Charles Pachter’s prize from the Hnatyshyn Foundation. Mathieu has received grants from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec and the Canada Council for the Arts. He is represented by Blouin | Division Gallery in Montreal and his works can be found in private and public collections in Canada and France.