A native of Belgium, Stéphane Gilot has lived and worked in Montreal since 1996. He holds an MA in visual and media arts from the University of Québec in Montreal. His architectural installations and video performances have been shown extensively in Canada and abroad (Belgium, France, Germany, USA, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Serbia, Spain, Finland and Brazil). Notable solo exhibitions include The Performative City at Optica Gallery and Le buvard du monde at Occurrence Gallery, Montreal in 2010; La Station, presented at Oboro, Montreal in 2006; Videogame, at Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto in 2005; Foire d’empoigne, at 251 Nord, Liège, Belgium in 2003; and Libre arbitre, at the Contemporary Art Museum of Montreal in 2001. His work as been shown in institutions like the Morris and Helen Belkin Downtown Gallery of Vancouver in 2002, the Canada House of London (U.K.) in 2003; the Transmediale of Berlin in 2006, the Flux Factory of New York in 2007, the Model Arts and Niland Gallery (Sligo, Ireland, 2009) and his work was part of the first triennial of contemporary art from Quebec at the Contemporary Art Museum of Montreal in 2008.