Rachelle Bussières

Rachelle Bussières (b. 1986, Québec City) is a Canadian photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. A holder of an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, she has received multiple grants from the Canada Council for the Arts. Her cameraless works explore light’s impact on our psyche, environment, and the universe, drawing inspiration from astronomy, transcendentalism, and the sublime. Bussières has been a finalist for the 2021 Aperture Foundation Portfolio Prize and has attended residencies at Brooklyn Darkroom, Banff Centre, Silver Art Projects, Penumbra Foundation, and Headlands Center for the Arts. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including Equivalentbehaviour (London), the International Center for Photography (New York), and Headlands Center for the Arts (Sausalito), among many other locations. Her work has been featured in Artforum, Le Soleil, La Presse, Hyperallergic, and Lenscratch, to name a few.

As the founder of LUMIÈRE NYC, she fosters dialogue between historical and contemporary photography through lumen printing. Bussières splits her time between New York City and Québec City.

SELECT Solo Exhibitions

  • Daydreams. L'écho des songes, Robertson Arès, Montréal, QC, CANADA, 2025

  • Air Index, In conversation with artists Alyssa Minahan, Yyvette Hamilton, Svetlana Bailey, Armelle Tulunda, Melanie King, Yann Pocreau, et al, Equivalentbehaviour, London, UK, 2024

  • Les rythmes circadiens. Galerie Alexandre Motulsky-Falardeau, Quebec City, QC, CANADA, 2023

  • sipping air. Melanie Flood Projects, Portland, OR, USA, 2021

  • (un)objectively, Curator: Leandro Villaro, Penumbra Foundation, New York, NY, USA, 2020

PUblic collections

  • Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL

  • Arter Contemporary Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

  • Penumbra Foundation, New York, NY

  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Library and Archives

  • Facebook, Mural Commission, Sunnyvale, San Francisco, CA

  • Four Seasons Hotel, San Francisco, CA

  • The Wing, San Francisco, CA

  • Brookfield Properties, Brooklyn, NY

  • Microsoft, San Francisco, CA

  • Atelier Noua, Bodø, Norway

  • Instagram Inc., San Francisco, CA