Serge Tousignant

Serge Tousignant (born May 28, 1942) is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist and a photographer who lives in Montreal.

Career After receiving his graphic arts diploma from the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal in 1962, Tousignant began to study lithography and etching in the studio of Albert Dumouchel. He continued his studies from 1962 to 1965 at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College of London, England, where he studied painting and lithography. In 1967, he began producing sculpture that plays on illusion and engages the viewer in participation. In 1972, he began to use photography, which is the medium he has continued to use. In 1978, he began the photographic series Geometrisation solaire, based on arrangements of sticks and the shadows they cast. The shadows of the sticks form geometric figures. In 2017, a retrospective entitled Serge Tousignant: Research Papers was held in Montreal at VOX, Centre de l'image contemporaine, of all the different formulations of his work from printmaking to photography. The Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art held a two-person show of Luis Jacob and Serge Tousignant titled I See What You Are Looking At of Tousignaut's sculpture in 2019. His work resides in public collections such as the National Gallery of Canada, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tate Gallery, and in many other art galleries.