Rachelle Bussieres was born and raised in Québec City, Canada. She received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2015. Bussieres’ recent solo exhibitions include Galerie Alexandre Motulsky-Falardeau (Québec, Canada), Melanie Flood Projects (Portland, Oregon), Penumbra Foundation (New York, New York, USA), Johansson Projects (Oakland, California) and Robert Koch Gallery (San Francisco, California). She is the recipient of a Canada Council for the Arts Grant in the Research and Creation category, received an honorable mention for the Snider Prize from the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, and was a finalist for the Aperture Foundation Portfolio Prize. She was an artist-in-residence at Brooklyn Darkroom, Silver Art Projects, Penumbra Foundation, Banff Center, Sim, Vermont Studio Center, and Headlands Center for the Arts. Bussieres lives and works in New York City where she extends her practice as the founder of LUMIÈRE NYC, an educational organization that supports a long-term and comprehensive resource by bringing together the arts, science, and theories of early photography in the context of contemporary practices using lumen printing.
