Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon

Before they met, Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon both had successful careers in the arts in the 1980s. Victor Pilon was the official photographer to the British Royal Family during their visits to Canada. For his part, Michel Lemieux was creating amazing artistic performances, including L’Œil rechargeable and Solide Salad. 

Since 1990, they have collaborated to give free rein to their imagination as designers and stage directors. Together, these multidisciplinary artists create fragmented yet profoundly human worlds in which the projection of images and flesh-and-bone actors often co-exist. Their artistic company, Lemieux Pilon 4D Art, has lent its unique touch to more than 30 productions, several of which have been acclaimed in the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America. 

Their creativity seems to know no bounds. In 2005, they revisited one of Shakespeare’s great classics, The Tempest, with dramatic flourish. Two years later, their show Norman delved into the world of film animator Norman McLaren through dance and moving images. In 2008, their staging and scenery in Starmania Opera fascinated the audience, and in 2011, they gave La Belle et la Bête the look of a reinvented fairy tale, both contemporary and timeless. 

To mark the 30th anniversary of their collaboration in 2014, the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts presented a retrospective of their work entitled Dreamscapes, an immersive installation carrying the signature of Lemieux Pilon.This creative duo also wrote and directed the dazzling show TORUK: The First Flight, a Cirque du Soleil production that debuted in 2015. 

Since 2016, their creation Cité Mémoire, a historical fresco of the city, has come alive in music, words and images projected every evening on the walls of the buildings of Old Montréal, a legacy of the city’s 375th anniversary.

Finally, their show Temporel, presented at Place des Arts in 2018, is the product of collaboration with Les 7 Doigts de la main. Straddling the circus, performance arts and illusion, it has won critical and public acclaim.  

Michel Lemieux is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, while Victor Pilon holds a bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from the University of Ottawa, with a major in photography. 

Both were named Officers of the Order of Canada in 2013 and Chevaliers of the Ordre national du Québec in 2014. That same year, the Conseil des arts de Montréal presented its Grand Prix to Lemieux Pilon 4D Art.