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.
GEON Sphere_11aa2 Archival Pigment Print, Signed Edition of 3
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Medium: Archival pigment print under acrylic glass. Dimensions: 60 x 60 in. Depth: 1/8 in. Signed by the artist. Edition of 3. RIOUX's Seer Masterprints: With NFT and Certificate ...
Archival Pigment, Plexiglass
GEON Sphere_10 Archival Pigment Print, Signed Edition of 5
By Paul-Émile Rioux
Located in Miami, FL
Medium: Archival pigment print under acrylic glass. Dimensions: 48 x 48 in. Depth: 1/4 in. Signed by the artist. Edition of 5. Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Mo...
Archival Pigment, Plexiglass
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
GEON Klush_1 Archival Pigment Print, Signed Edition of 5
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
$1,000
H 11 in W 14 in
"Longboard Afternoon, Ditch Plains", Montauk, New York, 2010
By Lynda Churilla
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing. Edition 1 of 10. If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase. Please allow two weeks for production. Shipping time depends on method of shipping. Price is subject to availability. The Robin Rice Gallery reserves the right to adjust this price depending on the current edition of the photograph. In her new exhibition Churilla draws from her years spent as a swimmer, lifeguard, and athlete to capture the forgotten freedom and exuberance of days of youth spent on the water. Viva la Vida is a mix of timeless portraits and candid photographs "I’ve always been drawn to the water- now my art, my sense of athleticism, freedom and oasis have merged in a way", says Churilla. Her nod to iconic photographers from the past, such as Edward Weston, and Herbert List, is apparent in her portrait work. In another Christian & Nathan Fletcher is in the midst of a surf crusade off the coast of Islamorada, Florida. Christian pioneered a new revolution in surfing style with his aerial techniques. The artist’s genuine connection to her subjects allows the viewer to forget the presence of a camera and to be drawn into the personal narrative. The invitational image Longboard Afternoon, taken at Ditch Plains...
Archival Pigment
Vietnam 5 - Black and White Photography - Plexiglas
By Alexandre Manuel
Located in New York City, NY
Edition of 5 Alexandre Manuel explores the natural tension between absence and presence, the man and his place in nature and between the evolution of the landscape and the permanenc...
Archival Pigment, Plexiglass
Moon Beam, black and white seascape photograph
By Heather Boose Weiss
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print. 15" x 15" edition of 10, unframed, $1,800 30" x 30" edition of 10, unframed $3,450 Please allow at least 2 weeks for the photograph to be printed and shipp...
Archival Pigment
$1,080
H 32 in W 44 in D 1 in
Hilly Stairs, Scenery, Black & White Photography by Indian Artist "In Stock"
By Mohan L. Mazumder
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Mohan L. Mazumder - Untitled - 24 x 36 inches (unframed size). Archival Print on Hahnemuhles Photo Rag Bright White museum quality paper - 310 gsm Edition of 4 + 1 AP Style : Mohan ...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
$1,080
H 32 in W 44 in D 1 in
Boats, Sea Beach, Black & White Photography by Indian Artist "In Stock"
By Mohan L. Mazumder
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Mohan L. Mazumder - Untitled - 24 x 36 inches (unframed size) Archival Print on Hahnemuhles Photo Rag Bright White museum quality paper - 310 gsm Edition of 4 + 1 AP. This work is t...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
$499
H 20 in W 24 in D 1 in
Landscape Scenery, Field, Black & White Photography by Indian Artist "In Stock"
By Mohan L. Mazumder
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Mohan L. Mazumder - Untitled - 12 x 16 inches (unframed size). Archival Print on Hahnemuhles Photo Rag Bright White museum quality paper - 310 gsm Edition of 4 + 1 AP Style : Mohan ...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
$1,080
H 32 in W 44 in D 1 in
Rural Scenery, Boat, River, Black & White Photography by Indian Artist"In Stock"
By Mohan L. Mazumder
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Mohan L. Mazumder - Untitled - 24 x 36 inches (unframed size) Archival Print on Hahnemuhles Photo Rag Bright White museum quality paper - 310 gsm Edition of 4 + 1 AP. This work is t...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
$399
H 19 in W 19 in D 1 in
Rural Photography, Utensils, Black & White by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
By Mohan L. Mazumder
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Mohan L. Mazumder - Untitled - 11 x 11 inches (unframed size). Archival Print on Hahnemuhles Photo Rag Bright White museum quality paper - 310 gsm Edition of 4 + 1 AP Style : Mohan ...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
$519
H 24 in W 32 in D 1 in
Rural Scenery, Black & White Photography by Contemporary Indian Artist"In Stock"
By Mohan L. Mazumder
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Mohan L. Mazumder - Untitled - 16 x 24 inches (unframed size). Archival Print on Hahnemuhles Photo Rag Bright White museum quality paper - 310 gsm Edition of 4 + 1 AP Style : Mohan ...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
$519
H 24 in W 32 in D 1 in
A Hilly Rocks Scenery, Black & White Photography by Indian Artist "In Stock"
By Mohan L. Mazumder
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Mohan L. Mazumder - Untitled - 16 x 24 inches (unframed size). Archival Print on Hahnemuhles Photo Rag Bright White museum quality paper - 310 gsm Edition of 4 + 1 AP Style : Mohan ...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
$499
H 20 in W 24 in D 1 in
Rural Scenery, Utensils, Black & White Photography by Indian Artist "In Stock"
By Mohan L. Mazumder
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Mohan L. Mazumder - Untitled - 12 x 16 inches (unframed size). Archival Print on Hahnemuhles Photo Rag Bright White museum quality paper - 310 gsm Edition of 4 + 1 AP Style : Mohan ...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
$499
H 20 in W 24 in D 1 in
Rural, Farming Fields, Black & White Photography by Indian Artist "In Stock"
By Mohan L. Mazumder
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Mohan L. Mazumder - Untitled - 12 x 16 inches (unframed size). Archival Print on Hahnemuhles Photo Rag Bright White museum quality paper - 310 gsm Edition of 4 + 1 AP Style : Mohan ...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment