Steve Bisson
Chair of Photography
Steve Bisson is an Italo-Belgian educator, curator and publisher mainly working in visual research and image making.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Urban Planning from the Istituto Universitario di Architettura – IUAV of Venice, Italy (2002), and MBA from Kansas University, USA (2004).
Work History
Extensive international collaborations with artists, museums, foundations, private organizations, public institutions and galleries. He contributed to several exhibitions and festivals, always carrying out his vision to support young talents, enhance lifelong learning, and boost debate and awareness on human conditions. In 2009, Steve founded the Urbanautica online publishing platform focusing on the image’s new territories. In 2016, in collaboration with Klaus Fruchtnis, he co-founded Blurring the Lines, an academic network that fosters talent and dialogue in the visual realm. Lastly, Steve Bisson co-directs Move Cine Arte, a Brazilian itinerant festival of films on art and architecture, and he is currently art director of Lab27 cultural centre.
Teaching
In 2018, Steve Bisson joined Paris College of Art as adjunct faculty and has since then taught in different courses in the Masters of Art (MA) / Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) in Photography and Image Making, Masters of Art (MA) in Fashion Film & Photography, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Photography.
Steve Bisson has also been teaching, giving lectures, doing seminars, workshops, and reviews with cultural and educational institutions worldwide such as: Lasalle College of Arts (Singapore) | Novia University, Master of Culture and Arts, Entrepreneurship in the Arts, and Photography (Finland) | FotoDepartment (Russia) | Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina (Serbia) | FAAP – Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado (Brazil), BELAS ARTES | Centro Universitário Belas Artes (Brazil), Fondazione Benetton Studi e Ricerche (Italy), IUAV | ECA – European Cultural Academy (Italy) | Istituto Universitario Architettura Venezia (Italy), IED | Istituto Europeo di Design Venezia (Italy), Università di Bologna | Facoltà di Architettura “Aldo Rossi”, (Italy), Domus Academy (Italy), Università Ca’ Foscari (Italy), Università ‘G. D’Annunzio’ di Chieti-Pescara (Italy)
Publications
Steve Bisson is the chief-editor of Urbanautica Journal of Visual Anthropology and Cultural Landscapes, and the founder of the publishing house Penisola Edizioni. He also regularly contributes to essays, reviews and other features for books, studies, magazines, and websites. He also participated in many photography awards and portfolio reviews as a jury member.
www.stevebisson.com
www.blurringthelines.org
www.penisolaedizioni.com
www.urbanautica.com
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PCA Chair of Photography Steve Bisson curate exhibition on Ukraine "In the midts of the immense steppe"
PCA Chair of Photography Steve Bisson curate exhibition on UkraineMore
PCA Talks Presents: Sarker Protick
Join us for PCA Talk with Sarker Protick on November 8th. The multi-awarded Bangladeshi author combines educational, curatorial practices with cutting edge visual research.More
Steve Bisson new Chair of Photography at PCA
Klaus Fruchtnis will be leaving his position at the end of the month and is thrilled to announce the promotion of Steve Bisson as the new Chair of Photography. Steve has worked with us for the past four years. He started as...More
PCA Faculty Steve Bisson Curates a Photography Exhibition in Peru
Peru is among the countries most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. At the end of January 2022, tens of thousands of miners protest in the streets to denounce working conditions that are abusive to human dignity and to ask for a minimum...More
PCA Faculty Steve Bisson curates the upcoming photography exhibition at Lab27
What impact does environmental change have on society and individuals? At this precise moment in history, awareness of the ability of human action to affect the planet on a global/local scale is at the highest levels in the scientific community and is...More
Blurring the Lines' partner opens the exhibition Earthlings at Atelier Néerlandais in Paris
The show presents a selection of works from artists who recently graduated from the photography departments of Dutch art academies. The artists were part of Blurring The Lines—an international talent program founded in 2016 by Klaus Fruchtnis (Paris College of Art) and...More
The 3rd International Photography Conference "Blurring the Lines"
Blurring the Lines, in collaboration with Paris College of Art, the European Cultural Centre, and Urbanautica Institute is thrilled to share the program of the 3rdInternational Conference on Photography and Education: Ethical Shift in Photography.More
Nona Griffin PCA Alumna is finalist in Blurring the Lines - 2021 Edition
For the 2021 edition, the theme on « Ethical shifts in photography » aims to explore the power, the moral principles, and the responsibilities of photography in all its dimensions: the rights of privacy and publicity, cultural representation, appropriation, confidentiality, copyright, intellectual...More
Blurring the Lines to be part of the exhibit "Time Space Existence" hosted by the European Cultural Centre in Venice
Blurring the Lines, a platform led by Klaus Fruchtnis, Chair of the Photography department at PCA.More
FOTODOK International Take Off #2
On January 27, 2021, FOTODOK presented the 2nd edition of "Take Off", a digital gathering between recent BA & M(F)A graduates of photography and experts in the field. The event spotlighted upcoming international talents: the participants, finalists, and winners of "Blurring the...More
The 2nd International Photography Conference "Blurring the Lines"
Blurring the Lines, in collaboration with Paris College of Art, the European Cultural Centre, and Urbanautica Institute, is thrilled to share the program of the 2nd International Conference on Photography and Education: Formal, Non-Formal, and Informal Education.More
Blurring the Lines Conference at the European Cultural Centre in Venice
The Photography department is thrilled to share the conference proceedings of the 1st International Education Conference that was held on November 23rd, 2019.More
Winners and finalists of the 2020 Blurring the Lines Edition
The theme for the 2020 edition is “Commitment” as the state or quality of being dedicated to a cause, activity, etc., or an engagement or obligation that restricts freedom of action. The question of photography’s commitment to real-world issues and its relationship...More
Blurring the Lines goes to the European Cultural Centre in Venice
The European Cultural Centre, in collaboration with Urbanautica and Paris College of Art will host on November 23rd the first International Conference on Photography & Education "Blurring the Lines", at Palazzo Mora, Venice.More
The Photography, Film and Liberal Arts departments host the screening of the film 'Message in a bottle' by French director Pascale Labout
The MOVE CINE ARTE is a travelling festival of films about art with its main stages in Sao Paulo, Venice and Paris. The festival welcomes films and video productions focused on all types of artistic languages: architecture, painting, sculpture, theatre, animation, video...More
Winners and finalists of the 2019 Blurring the Lines Exhibition
The organisation Blurring the Lines and the Department of Photography are happy to announce the winners and finalists of the 2019 edition selected by curators Steve Bisson and Lisanne van Happen. We have received 66 very high-quality projects coming from 19 participating...More
Blurring the Lines goes to the Biennale Art Venise 2019
“Blurring the Lines,” promoted by the Paris College of Art and Chair of Photography, Klaus Fruchtnis, is a call that aims to involve a network of international academies and institutes of art in enhancing and rewarding graduate thesis works all over the...More
PCA acquires Urbanautica Books Collection
The Photography Department is happy to announce the acquisition of ten booksMore
Blurring the Lines goes to the University of the Arts in Utrecht
Because of the fantastic quality of the project developed at PCA in 2018, FOTODOK in collaboration with Stefanie Grätz, head of the photography department at the HKU University of the Arts in Utrecht, decided to bring Blurring the Lines as we presented...More
PCA is delighted to reveal the winners and finalists of the 2018 Blurring the Lines Exhibition!
The organization of Blurring the Lines 2018 is happy to announce the final selection for the third edition, selected by curators Steve Bisson and Lisanne van Happen.More
Urbanautica Institute Photo Show "Tiny Tears" at the Mi Galerie tonight
Urbanautica Institute Photo Show "Tiny Tears" at the mi* Galerie tonight!More
"Blurring the Lines" Exhibition Opening at PCA on November 7, 2017
Curators Steve Bisson and Rodrigo Orrantia have announced the final selection for the second edition of "Blurring the lines”.More
Paris College of Art to Host Move Cine Arte
MOVE CINE ARTE welcomes films focused on all types of artistic expressions such as architecture, painting, sculpture, theater, animation, video art, photography, dance, poetry, literature, music, design, fashion, cinema.More
Transformation Brainstorm: What does the Photographer of Tomorrow Need?
During Paris Photo 2017, on November 8th, we are looking to gather a group of photography students from various backgrounds, countries and schools for a brainstorm session on the need of the future photographer. Together with the students we want to look...More
Lieven Lefere exhibits at Urbanautica: 'Because it's in my nature'
Lieven Lefere, who will present a PCA Photography Lunch Talk in March, is exhibiting at Mi Gallery.More
Announcing the International Fine Art Photography Awards 2017
The International Fine Art Photography Awards have a new home! Paris College of Art (PCA) is re-launching the IFAP competition in January 2017. In the spirit of prior IFAP competitions, winners will receive cash awards; their work will be accepted into the...More
Paris Photo 2016: PCA Workshop
Every year during Paris Photo the PCA photography department creates events to celebrate photography and broadcast the work of our students.More
Blurring the lines, An exhibition curated by Steve Bisson & François Ronsiaux
"Is it actually possible to speak about only photography? Many artists/photographers could be considered as reality traficants, they use not only photography but the ensemble of technological possibilities to squeeze out their artistic concepts." François RonsiauxMore
PCA Talks presents Steve Bisson
The Yellow Period of Van Gogh Was Actually a Lack of Blue?
Steve Bisson, an Italo-belgian planner, art director, curator, working mainly in the eld of urbanism and visual anthropology will speak at PCA on November 8th, 2016More