Hugo Cantin

Hugo Cantin is a Montreal-based artist, designer, cinematographer and film collector whose work has met with remarkable success in various art markets in America, Europe and Asia.

Hugo creates linear-patterned collages using vintage film stock, which he illuminates with LEDs in elegantly-built wooden and metal light boxes. His work achieves a keen, sophisticated aesthetic from a design standpoint, even as Hugo weaves highly intuitive historical narrations into his splicing of found film.


Inspired by the psychedelic and by mid-century figures and movements, Hugo effects dream-like meditations on some of the twentieth century's most captivating and iconic images, such as those of The Beatles, Warhol, New York City, the Apollo moon landing and the pin-up girl.

Although his light boxes distinguish themselves as decorative objects of taste and style, it is Hugo Cantin's sensitive, finely-tuned rendering of time on a flat surface which lend his works their luminosity and depth.

2024
The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn

2020-24
The Artist Project Toronto
The Toronto Outdoor Art Fair

2019
Affordable Art Fair Brussels
The Artist Project Toronto

2018
Affordable Art Fair Hamburg
Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam
Art Market San Francisco
Affordable Art Fair New York
Affordable Art Fair UK Battersea
The Artist Project Toronto
Art LA

2017
Context Art Miami
Aqua Art Miami
Affordable Art Fair Singapore
SOFA Chicago
Art Market Hamptons
Art New York
Art Market San Francisco
Affordable Art Fair New York
The Artist Project Toronto