Robert Labossière (b. 1952) is a visual artist, arts administrator and advocate. He is a graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (M.F.A. 1985) and of Osgoode Hall Law School at York University (LL.B. 1989) and has participated in various residencies including H@bitat, a programme of the Canadian Film Centre in 2000 and The Banff Centre in 2006. Labossière has written extensively on the visual arts, including art criticism and theory. A research project funded by the Ontario Arts Council was published under the title “A Newer Laocoon: Towards Artists’ Self-determination Through Public Arts Funding in Fuse magazine in 1995. He has produced major research papers for the Canada Council for the Arts, the Department of Canadian Heritage and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade; on author’s rights and electronic media in 2000, on the visual arts in Canada in 2002 and on the media arts in Canada in 2003. Labossière has been working with online media since 1996 as a web designer/developer specializing in Flash media. He is currently Managing Editor of YYZBOOKS, a publishing programme of the Toronto artist-run centre YYZ. He lives and works in Toronto.

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