2023
Paul-Émile Rioux creates evocative digital art that pulls the viewer into an uncanny world and provides a haunting reflection of reality. His virtual color photography and landscape photography pieces reveal their synthesized nature only upon close inspection.
Rioux is based in Montréal, Canada, where he studied animation at Concordia University. In the early 1990s, he established a career in photography with a focus on urban environments. At the same time, he was developing an interest in 3D software. Eventually, the virtual world overtook the real one as his main passion.
Rioux combines his photography with cutting-edge technology to create the virtual matrices from which his images are born. He eschews more popular image manipulation technologies, such as Photoshop, in favor of numerous digital techniques and 3D software. Each technology is like a different paintbrush that helps Rioux generate the final image, which is the result of algorithmic possibilities captured in a cut of virtual space and time.
Rioux’s new media work offers a tense glimpse of a dystopic world populated by infinite skyscrapers. It encourages one to pause and reflect on the future and the environment.
Whitehot Magazine advises the viewer to “think of one of Rioux’s works as the template for a truly engulfing experience.” Though the worlds he brings to life exist only digitally, they represent a meeting of reality and imagination.
Rioux’s work was exhibited at the 2021 Cube Art Fair in New York City.
On 1stDibs, find a collection of Paul-Émile Rioux’s digital art.
Nucleus 2 Archival Pigment Print, Signed Edition of 5, 48x48 in.
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Medium: Archival pigment print under museum acrylic glass. Dimensions: 48 x 48 in. Depth: 1/4 in. Signed by the artist. Edition of 5. Paul-Émile Rioux is a Montreal-based artist a...
Archival Pigment, Plexiglass
Nucleus Archival Pigment Print, Contemporary, Signed, Edition of 5
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Medium: Archival pigment print under museum acrylic glass. Dimensions: 18 x 15 x 15 in. each Depth: 1 in. Space in between each panel: 1.5 in. Total dimensions: 48 x 97.5 in. Ar...
Archival Pigment, Plexiglass
Transition A2 - Elements Connection, Archival Pigment Print, 48x48 in.
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under museum acrylic. Dimensions: 48 x 48 in. Depth: 1/4 in. Edition of 5 Montreal-based artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux has been creating virtual wor...
Archival Pigment, Plexiglass
Transition_A1 - Elements Connection, Archival Pigment Print, 48x48 in.
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under museum acrylic. Dimensions: 48 x 48 in. Depth: 1/4 in. Edition of 5 Montreal-based artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux has been creating virtual wor...
Archival Pigment, Plexiglass
Triptych Geon Archival Pigment Print, Signed Edition of 3
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass. Three prints 3 x 48x48" (each) Height: 48 in Width: 48 in Depth: 1/8 in Signed & Numbered by the artist Edition of 3 Total: 156 in ...
Archival Pigment, Plexiglass
Renaissance Masterprint + NFT, Archival Pigment Print, Contemporary
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Masterprint with NFT with Certificate of Authenticity. Signed and Numbered by the artist. Edition of 3 Archival photo print under acrylic glass. Dimensions: 60x60 in. Depth: 1/8 i...
Archival Pigment, Plexiglass
EXP_8623.RAW
By Maurizio Sapia
Located in Greifswald, DE
„According to some theories, the human brain encodes images through a process that takes place in several stages. At the beginning, the images are organized into two-dimensional sket...
Panel, Inkjet
Révélations 3 Digital Print, Contemporary Landscape, 2010s, Unframed
By Patrick Beaulieu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Patrick Beaulieu’s most recent project Révélations uses installation and digital prints to explore how artistic manipulation can create shifts in one’s expectations of the visual exp...
Digital
Révélations 7 Digital Print, Contemporary Still-life, 2010s, Unframed
By Patrick Beaulieu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Patrick Beaulieu’s most recent project Révélations uses installation and digital prints to explore how artistic manipulation can create shifts in one’s expectations of the visual experience. Beaulieu clearly acknowledges his artistic presence in the work through mechanical and digital manipulation of the objects and images he presents. He becomes more than a passive observer and recorder of his physical world; the alteration of conventional photographs implants his voice and vision into the work. This approach directly addresses and contrasts artistic practices which seek to conceal the artist’s hand. His method diverges from those that attempt to present an uninterrupted and uncontaminated record, such as some documentary and straight photography. In using these stylized techniques, Beaulieu makes a palpable proclamation regarding the subjective and flexible condition of images. In Révélations, images of trees, moss, leaves and other natural objects are presented in strict colour schemes of muted grays, browns and greens. Though these colours are familiar components of the natural world that we experience in day-to-day life and in photographs of nature...
Digital
Révélations 2 Digital Print, Contemporary Landscape, 2010+, Unframed
By Patrick Beaulieu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Patrick Beaulieu’s most recent project Révélations uses installation and digital prints to explore how artistic manipulation can create shifts in one’s expectations of the visual experience. Beaulieu clearly acknowledges his artistic presence in the work through mechanical and digital manipulation of the objects and images he presents. He becomes more than a passive observer and recorder of his physical world; the alteration of conventional photographs implants his voice and vision into the work. This approach directly addresses and contrasts artistic practices which seek to conceal the artist’s hand. His method diverges from those that attempt to present an uninterrupted and uncontaminated record, such as some documentary and straight photography. In using these stylized techniques, Beaulieu makes a palpable proclamation regarding the subjective and flexible condition of images. In Révélations, images of trees, moss, leaves and other natural objects are presented in strict colour schemes of muted grays, browns and greens. Though these colours are familiar components of the natural world that we experience in day-to-day life and in photographs of nature...
Digital
Shapeshifter No13 Archival Pigment Print, Contemporary, Signed, 2023
By Jennifer Latour
Located in Vancouver, CA
Jennifer Latour Shapeshifter no13, 2023 Edition of 7 plus 2 APs Signed in pencil by the artist 24 × 20 in The image is printed full bleed with no borders. This is the only size avail...
Archival Pigment
C3H6-PRO-01 Abstract Digital Pigment Print on Plexiglass, 21st Century
By Laurent Lamarche
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Informed by microbiology, Laurent Lamarche’s sculptural installations and photographic production look like living unidentified microorganisms. Its narrative is ambiguous, constantly...
Plexiglass, Digital Pigment
