Jean-François Bouchard has worked in lens-based visual art since 2003. He travels the world and seeks out people whose interests and lifestyles are out of the ordinary. He celebrates difference by focusing on marginalized, misunderstood, and often ostracized groups of people. Working at the intersection of documentary work and subjective cinematic conceptual storytelling, he aims to immerse viewers into the lives of his collaborators while sharing his own emotional journeys into these worlds. His practice blends photography, video installations, and occasionally found objects.
His work has been exhibited in galleries, museums, and festivals in Canada, the United States, and France. His projects have been shown at Arsenal Contemporary Art in New York, Montreal, and Toronto. His works are featured in a book published by The Magenta Foundation. Artnet selected the In Guns We Trust exhibition as a “Must-see show in NYC,” while ArtForum selected his Exile from Babylon exhibition as an “Editor’s Pick” in early 2023.
His photographs have been published in The Washington Post, Stern Magazine, Wired, The British Journal of Photography, and many others. He is a winner of the Nannen Prize in Germany.
His recent project, The New Cubans, is published by PowerHouse Books of New York City (co-published in French by Éditions André Frère) and will be exhibited in numerous cities worldwide from late 2024 to 2025.
Bouchard lives in New York City and Montréal.
