Born 1986, Quebec, Canada
Based in New York City, NY
Represented by Robertson Arès, Montréal
Supported by Bigaignon, Paris
Studio: rachellebussieres@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2015 MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA
2011 BA, Université Laval, Québec, QC, CANADA
2010 Study abroad semester, Université Laval, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
SELECTED SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025 And the sky will follow. Bigaignon, Paris, FRANCE
2025 Daydreams. L'écho des songes. Robertson Arès, Montréal, QC, CANADA
2025 Future Fair. Two-person presentation with Katrine Demers. Robertson Arès, New York, NY, USA
2024 Air Index. In conversation with artists Alyssa Minahan, Yyvette Hamilton, Svetlana Bailey, Armelle Tulunda, Melanie King, Yann Pocreau, et al, Equivalentbehaviour, London, UK
2024 Signal ("spotlight" alongside Sophie Victoria). Robertson Arès, Montréal, QC, CANADA
2023 Les rythmes circadiens. Galerie Alexandre Motulsky-Falardeau, Quebec City, QC, CANADA
2021 sipping air. Melanie Flood Projects, Portland, OR, USA
2020 (un)objectively. Curator: Leandro Villaro, Penumbra Foundation, New York, NY, USA
2020 In Light. Conditions of Time. Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA, USA
2018 Concrete Utopia. Two-person show with Courtney Sennish. Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA, USA
2016 Strata. Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
2015 Monument Mineral. Silver Projects, Brooklyn, NY, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & ART FAIRS
2026 Imprints of Becoming: Traces, Temporalities, and the Unfixed Paradise. Curator: Francesca Marcaccio, Westbeth, New York, NY, USA
2025 Paris Photo with Bigaignon, Paris, FRANCE
2025 I Need More Time. Curator: Oğuz Karakütük, Arter Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul, TURKEY
2025 Sotto la Luce. Bigaignon x Rhinoceros, Rhinoceros Gallery, Rome, ITALY
2025 Still Point. Curator: Caitlin Monachino (The Aldrich Museum), Ortega y Gasset, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2025 Enter Art Fair with Robertson Arès, Copenhagen, DENMARK
2025 Elsewhere. Rivalry Projects, Buffalo, NY, USA
2025 EXPO Chicago with Robertson Arès, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL, USA
2025 Foire Plural with Robertson Arès, Montréal, QC, CANADA
2024 Art Toronto with Robertson Arès, Toronto, ON, CANADA
2024 Tall Shadows in Short Order. Curator: Will Hutnick, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY, USA
2023 The Collective. Curator: Visionary Projects, High Line Nine Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2023 ICP Faculty Show. International Center of Photography, New York, NY, USA
2023 Accrochage collectif for “Art et Science : Quel Rapports + Science-fiction”. Curated by Lucas Bourlot. École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts à la Villa Arson, Nice, FRANCE
2022 High Plains (with Blaise Rosenthal and Andy Vogt). Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA, USA
2022 When Light Becomes Form: Processing Photography. Curator: Kevin Chen, San Francisco University
2021 On Colored Shadows (with Myeongsoo Kim and Suzanna Zak). Rubber Factory, New York, NY, USA
2021 Untitled Art with Johansson Projects, Miami, FL, USA
2021 Silver Art Group Exhibition. Silver Art Projects at 4 World Trade Center, New York, NY, USA
2021 Community Garden. Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA, USA
2020 Beach Break Miami. With Johansson Projects, Virtual Miami Exhibition, FL, USA
2020 Printed Publics. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
2020 Echoes of the Bauhaus Cast Long Shadows. Curator: Hanna Regev, Ruth's Table, San Francisco, CA
2020 At the Edge of Both. Curators: Serrah Russell and Zach Bent, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA
2019 Surface Area. Curator: Noah Doely, Marin Gallery, Waterloo, IA, USA
2019 LA Art Book Fair. with Night Diver Press, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2019 Object, Space, Action. Soil Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA
2018 Bloomfield, Bussières, Webb (with Rebecca Norris Webb and Debra Bloomfield). Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
2018 Waiting for the Sun. Sim Gallery, Reykjavik, ICELAND
2018 After Tomorrow. Curator: Candace Huey, Residence of the Consul General of France, San Francisco, CA
2018 Landscapes. Curator: Allie Haeusslein, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CL, USA
2017 Beneath The Salt. Curator: Marianne Bjormyr, The Culture House, Stormen, Bodo, NORWAY
2017 Beneath The Salt. Curator: Marianne Bjormyr, NOUA, Bodo, NORWAY
2017 AIPAD with Robert Koch Gallery Park Avenue Armory, New York City, NY
2017 Insights. Curators: Alexander Montagne-Sparey and Allie Haeusslein, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
2016 EXPO Chicago with Robert Koch Gallery. Navy Pier, Chicago, USA
2016 Paris Photo with Robert Koch Gallery. Grand Palais, Paris, FRANCE
2016 Corte Madera's Centennial Art Exhibition. Curator: Nolan Sheehan Jankowski, Corte Madera, CA, USA
2016 I Never Learned the Song I Always Sing. Curator: Brion Nuda Rosch, MSP, San Francisco
2016 I’ll Tell You Later. Curator: Joanna Szupinska-Myers, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, USA
2016 Fine Words Butter No Parsnips However Fine Parsnips Can Butter Words. Present Company, NY, USA
2015 Photography Show AIPAD with Robert Koch Gallery Park Avenue Armory, New York City, NY
2015 Paris Photo with Robert Koch Gallery. Grand Palais, Paris, FRANCE
2015 Institute of Contemporary Art San José auction. Institute of Contemporary Art, San José, CA, USA
2014 Pretty Raw. Curator: Linda Connor, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, AUSTRIA
2014 MFA NOW. Juror: Donna Napper, Root Division, San Francisco, CA, USA
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2024 Canada Council for the Arts, Concept to Realization Grant, CANADA
2024 Brooklyn Darkroom Residency, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2021 Aperture Portfolio Prize, Finalist, USA
2021 Canada Council for the Arts, Research-Creation Grant, CANADA
2020 Silver Art Projects Residency, New York, NY, USA
2019 Penumbra Foundation Residency, New York, NY, USA
2018 Sim Residency, Reykjavik, ICELAND
2018 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SECA Award Nominee, San Francisco, CA, USA
2018 Banff Centre Residency, Banff, AL, CANADA
2017 Vermont Studio Center Residency, Johnson, VT, USA
2016 Magenta Foundation, Flash Forward Emerging Photographer 2016 : Selected Winner, CANADA
2016 Minnesota Street Project, Charter Resident Award, San Francisco, CA, USA
2015 Headlands Center for the Arts, Graduate Fellowship Residency, Sausalito, CA, USA
2015 Museum of Contemporary Photography, Snider Prize Honorable Mention, Chicago, IL, USA
VISITING LECTURER AND CRITIC
2026 i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration Lecture Series, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, USA
2024 Parsons The New School, New York, NY, USA
2023 NARS, New York, NY, USA
2022 UPEI, Charlottetown, PEI, CANADA
2022 University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
2021 UPEI, Charlottetown, PEI, CANADA
2021 Brock University, St-Catharines, ON, CANADA
2020 San Francisco State, San Francisco, CA, USA
2020 University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
2020 Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA, USA
2019 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA
2018 Penumbra Foundation, New York, NY, USA
2018 Sim, Reykjavik, ICELAND
2018 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA
2017 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, USA
2017 CSU East Bay, Hayward, CA, USA
2017 Banff Centre, Banff, AL, CANADA
2016 California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA, USA
2016 Mills College, Oakland, CA, USA
2015 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2021- PRESENT Founder and Director. LUMIERE NYC, an educational organization and curatorial online platform on historical photography and lumen printing practices, Brooklyn, NY
2018-2019 Co-Director. The Painting Salon, monthly curated talks, San Francisco, CA, USA
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago)
Arter Contemporary Art Museum (Istanbul)
Penumbra Foundation (New York)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Library and Archives
Facebook (Mural Commission, Sunnyvale)
Four Seasons Hotel (San Francisco)
The Wing (San Francisco)
Brookfield Properties (Brooklyn)
Microsoft (San Francisco)
Atelier Noua (Bodø)
Instagram Inc. (San Francisco)
Private collections (USA, Canada, France, Turkey)
PUBLICATIONS
2025 Selected Works, Figures Photography (online publication), December 2025
2024 MONARCHI, Christiane. “Interview with Rachelle Bussières.” Photomonitor UK, August 2024
2024 Volume 2: Tied to Light, edited and published by Folium Publishing, Spring 2024
2023 KURLAT, Galina. “Luminous Visions: Rachelle Bussières.” Lens Scratch, April 24, 2023
2023 Album cover for Circle of Signs by musician Mariee Siou, April 2023
2022 Broadside, in conversation with John Opera, edited and published by Melanie Flood Projects
2020 ArtMaze, Autumn Issue 19, curated by the editorial team of ArtMaze Magazine, Fall 2020
2019 CALDERWOOD, Peter. “Shadows Are Formations.” Risograph, Night Diver Press, May 2019
2019 GUSTAFSON, Lena, and CALDERWOOD, Peter. “Practice.” Night Diver Press, July 2019, pp. 2–7
2018 CROS, Lolita. “The Salon at The Wing.” Exhibition catalog, Fall 2018, pp. 6–7
2018 COLLINS, Elly. “Rachelle Bussières.” Ryall Contemporary, May 27, 2018
2019 HAMADA, Jeff. “Artist Spotlight: Rachelle Bussières.” BOOOOOOOM, October 4, 2019
2017 The Center for Fine Art Photography, poster exhibition for Landscapes
2017 ROSCH, Brion. “Inside 1240 Minnesota Street.” 1240 Minnesota Street, May 19, 2017
2017 MARINER, Dan, and BJÖRNMYR, Marianne. “Beneath the Salt.” YONA Editions, 2017, pp. 14–18
2016 MAGENTA Foundation. Exhibition catalog for Flash Forward 2016, p. 26
2016 HOOD-MORGAN, Katie. “Rabbit Rabbit.” Big Bad Betty Press, pp. 1, 8–12
2015 Root Division. Exhibition catalog for MFA NOW, pp. 6–7
SELECTED PRESS & BIBLIOGRAPHY
2026 "Today's Show of the Day". Galleries Now, January 3, 2026
2025 CHAIZEMARTIN, Julie. “Trois révélations art.” Transfuge Magazine, November 27, 2025
2025 BOITTIAUX, Inès. “8 galeries photo incontournables à Paris.” Beaux-Arts Magazine, November 17, 2025
2025 “And the Sky Will Follow,” PhMuseum, November 6, 2025
2025 BOUTOULLE, Mireille, "Paris Photo 2025 : les 10 stands a ne pas manquer ce weekend au Grand Palais", Connaissance des Arts, November 14, 2025
2025 “Sotto la Luce; la collettiva che inaugura la trilogia di Rhinoceros Gallery e Bigaignon.” Revenews, September 19, 2025
2025 DELVALLE LAGO, Antonio. “ISSUE 44 | Transformative Collaborations.” Future Fair Preview, March 13,
2024 THOMAS, Taliesin, “15 Art Shows to See in Upstate New York This Summer”. Hyperallergic, June 24
2023 DESLOGES, Josianne. “Rachelle Bussières: Minimal Sublime.” Le Soleil, April 8, 2023
2022 BARON, Jaimie. “Writing with Light.” Square Cylinder, March 27, 2022
2021 UMANA, Kevin. “Rachelle Bussières Visited by Kevin Umana.” The Coastal Post, April 20, 2021
2021 ALBRO, Jonas. “On Colored Shadows at The Rubber Factory, NYC (Review).” Arte Fuse, June 30, 2021
2020 CHENG, Dewitt. “Rachelle Bussières.” East Bay Express, March 6, 2020
2019 McCAID, Cate. “Investing in Female Artists.” Elysian, Summer 2019
2018 SORIANO, Amyra. “Staff Pick Review of Concrete Utopia.” East Bay Express, September 1, 2018
2018 LIEN, Tracey. “Likes, Comments and Sometimes Sales: How Instagram Is Shaping the Art World.” Los Angeles Times, March 5, 2018
2017 “To Do List: December.” Art Source Consulting, November 30, 2017
2017 “Rachelle Bussières.” San Francisco Art Dealers Association, November 2017
2016 CHENG, Dewitt. “Lauren Marsolier, Rachelle Bussières.” Artillery, September 6, 2016
2016 BEIL, Kim. “Critics’ Pick: Lauren Marsolier and Rachelle Bussières.” Artforum, July 17, 2016
2015 “Edge Effect.” Juxtapoz, May 13, 2015
2015 “Edge Effect.” SF Art Enthusiast, May 23, 2015