Rachelle Bussières is a French-Canadian artist based in New York whose practice investigates light, time, perception, and the material conditions of photographic representation. She holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and her work has been exhibited across North America and Europe, including the United States, Canada, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Turkey. She has participated in international residencies such as the Banff Centre, Penumbra Foundation, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Silver Art Projects. Her work is held in public and private collections including the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago), Arter Contemporary Art Museum (Istanbul), and the SFMOMA Library. She has received numerous grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, was awarded second place in the Snider Prize from the Museum of Contemporary Photography, and was longlisted for the Aperture Portfolio Prize. She is the founder of LUMIERE NYC, a platform dedicated to experimental light-based photographic practices.

Bussières’ practice operates at the intersection of photography and sculpture, where material experimentation becomes a way of rethinking photographic temporality. Using lumen printing, one of photography’s earliest light-based processes, she exposes light-sensitive silver paper to controlled and environmental light over periods ranging from seconds to several days. Light, time, and environment function as active agents, producing unique surfaces that register duration, contingency, and place. Her work engages a lineage that includes photograms, the Light and Space movement, Minimalism, and Color Field painting, extending these histories into a contemporary ecological and temporal framework. Bussières’ prints function as palimpsests of light and time—records of encounters rather than static images—inviting sustained attention to perception, duration, and the limits of photographic knowledge.

Represented by Robertson Arès, Montréal

Supported by Bigaignon, Paris