Nicolas Renaud is a filmmaker, artist, and professor of Indigenous Studies at Concordia University. He makes installations, experimental films, and documentaries since the 1990s. The film Brave New River (La Nouvelle Rupert) received the award for Best 1st feature-length Canadian documentary at Hot Docs 2013 in Toronto. His recent short films include Bear Cubs (Oursons, 2019), Métamorphoses (2020, award winner at FOFS, Toronto), Florent Vollant: I Dream in Innu (NFB production, 2021), and Holiday Native Land (co-directed with Brian Virostek, award winner at RIDM 2023). 

His work in contemporary art often combines material and digital elements. Since 2022, he has created a series of installations relating to Wendat wampum belts from the 18th and 19th centuries. One of his wampum pieces is in the collection of the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, and another one in the collection of the Méduse Building in Québec City. Nicolas is of mixed Indigenous and Québécois heritage, and he is a member of the Huron-Wendat First Nation of Wendake.