Raised in Lac Saint-Jean, painter and video maker Martin Bureau lives and works in Saint-Jean-de-l’île-d’Orléans. For over a decade, he has been exhibiting his paintings and video installations at venues and events that include the Bienal de Video y Nuevos Medios (Santiago, Chile), Galerie Lacerte Art Contemporain (Quebec City/Montreal), L’Oeil de poisson and Manif d’art 2 (Quebec City), Galerie Orange (Montréal) and the Drabinsky and Lonsdale galleries in Toronto. His works feature in many public and private collections. He co-directed in 2008 his first documentary Une tente sur Mars with Luc Renaud, with whom he worked again in 2012 for the documentary Playa Coloniale.