About

Nicolas de Cosson is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores the intersection of human memory, physical sculpture, and algorithmic reconstruction. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts (Integrated Media) from the University of Windsor (2013) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Lethbridge. De Cosson has exhibited both nationally and internationally. His professional portfolio includes participation in numerous art festivals, group and solo shows and a permanent public sculpture commission located in Windsor, Ontario. Now a resident of Denman Island, BC, de Cosson’s work is informed by a deep interest in the "artist as a recording mechanism" - a trajectory that synthesizes traditional sculptural forms with custom computational tools to map the fragile territory where our biological past is reconstructed.

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De Cosson creates light-based sculptural works designed to house and support complex, time-based digital constructions. His practice is characterized by an interest in "metaphorical skins" - the boundary zones and substrates where the digital world meets the physical. Whether animating membrane-like surfaces or constructing rigid structures that act as sites of action, he focuses on the scaffolds that support our interactions with technology.

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In addition to his installation practice, de Cosson is an active participant in the local craft community on Denman Island through his upcycling project, Slow Ocean. This initiative, focused on the creative reuse of discarded materials, serves as a grounded, tactile counterpart to his high-tech explorations. By building custom algorithmic pipelines that process personal data through the lens of human physiology, he continues to investigate what it feels like to inhabit a past that has been captured, encoded, and ultimately reimagined.