Yann Pocreau was born in Quebec City in 1980. He lives and works in Montreal. In his recent research, he is interested in light as a living subject and the effect of it on the narrative of images. He has participated in several Canadian, American and European exhibitions, including Quebec Gold, presented in Reims, France; Exercises of empathy, at Espace Bortier in Brussels; Expansion at the UQAM Gallery; Out of Grace, at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery; at Montreal’s Mois de la Photo in 2011, at the Under the Radar exhibitions; the New Visionaries and Paperwork in New York at Le Fresnoy, France for L’image rôde (Louise Déry curator) and the 5th Biennial of Sinop in Turkey. His work has been commented on in various magazines and his works are in the collections of the National Bank of Canada, Hydro-Québec, the City of Montreal, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal, the Museum of Fine Arts of Montreal, the Joliette Museum of Art, in the Loan of Art Collection collection at the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec. Until 2014 he was General Coordinator of Centre CLARK in Montreal.