2024
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.
Revival Panorama VIII, Archival Pigment Print, 24x72 in., 2010+
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass. Dimensions: 24 x 72 in. Depth: 1/4 in. Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada. His lifelong interest in cutti...
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Renaissance - Revival 10, Archival Print Under Acrylic Glass, 2010+
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass. Dimensions: 48 x 48 in. Depth: 1/4 in. Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada. His lifelong interest in cutti...
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Renaissance - Revival 12, Archival Print Under Acrylic Glass, 2010+
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass. Dimensions: 48 x 48 in. Depth: 1/4 in. Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada. His lifelong interest in cutti...
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Renaissance - Revival 11, Archival Print Under Acrylic Glass, 2010+
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass. Dimensions: 48 x 48 in. Depth: 1/4 in. Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada. His lifelong interest in cutti...
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Renaissance - Revival 8, Archival Print Under Acrylic Glass, 2010+
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass. Dimensions: 48 x 48 in. Depth: 1/4 in. Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada. His lifelong interest in cutti...
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Renaissance - Revival 1, Archival Print Under Acrylic Glass, 2010+
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass. Dimensions: 48 x 48 in. Depth: 1/4 in. Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada. His lifelong interest in cutti...
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Marea # 5, Photograph, Silver Hal/Gelatin
By Pietro Canali
Located in Yardley, PA
Marea # 5 . Sea of Cortez, Mexico, 2013. Silver Halide Fuji Flex Crystal Archive paper printed with LightJet Oce 430, face mounted with 1/8†UV Tru-VU Clear Conservation Grade Acr...
Silver Gelatin
"The Uniqueness of Waves XLI" (2024) By Tal Paz-Fridman, Photo Print, 36 x 24 in
By Tal Paz-Fridman
Located in Denver, CO
Explore the exclusive limited editions of Tal Paz-Fridman's collection, with each captivating piece available in four select sizes. Limited to just 10 editions each, you can choose f...
Photographic Paper
"The Uniqueness of Waves XII" (2024) By Tal Paz-Fridman, Photo Print, 30 x 20 in
By Tal Paz-Fridman
Located in Denver, CO
Explore the exclusive limited editions of Tal Paz-Fridman's collection, with each captivating piece available in four select sizes. Limited to just 10 editions each, you can choose f...
Photographic Paper
Horizon Light
By Christine Matthai
Located in Fairfield, CT
Also available 50 x 70 in. $9,500, edition of 10. Christine Matthäi was born in Germany. She lives and works between Shelter Island, New York, Germany and the Bahamas. Her LIGHT an...
C Print
"The Uniqueness of Waves XLI" (2024) By Tal Paz-Fridman, Photo Print, 30 x 20 in
By Tal Paz-Fridman
Located in Denver, CO
Explore the exclusive limited editions of Tal Paz-Fridman's collection, with each captivating piece available in four select sizes. Limited to just 10 editions each, you can choose f...
Photographic Paper
"The Uniqueness of Waves XII" (2024) By Tal Paz-Fridman, Photo Print, 24 x 16 in
By Tal Paz-Fridman
Located in Denver, CO
Explore the exclusive limited editions of Tal Paz-Fridman's collection, with each captivating piece available in four select sizes. Limited to just 10 editions each, you can choose f...
Photographic Paper
