Willy Le Maitre, b. 1965. Canadian.

Willy Le Maitre is an image-based artist whose practice spans painting, expanded cinema, and media art. Since the early 1990s, his work has evolved from collaborative projects focused on networks and generative media systems (pre-2005) to investigations of embodied experience and immersive imagery.

Over the past fifteen years, he has developed his concept of "the inhabited image" - artworks experienced spatially and physically, where, in his words, "we occupy the image rather than it representing for us." This exploration has led him to pioneer new approaches using stereo 3D video, live VRML performances, and virtual reality alongside more tangible experiments with 3D lenticular prints and pharmaceutical-inspired "Art Drugs."

His work has been exhibited at notable New York venues including The New Museum, The Kitchen, Canada Gallery, CCS Bard College Galleries, Bitforms, and the Baryshnikov Arts Center, as well as public galleries throughout Canada. He is represented by Canada Gallery, New York.