Mike Schertzer

Mike Schertzer (born May 27, 1965, in Brantford, Ontario) is a Canadian poet and artist.

Schertzer graduated in 1987 from the University of British Columbia with a B.Sc. in biology, and lived for some time in Vancouver, British Columbia. In 2017 he obtained a PhD from the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie/Sorbonne Universités (ED515, Complexité du Vivant). He currently lives and works in Paris, France.

According to his personal homepage, he has worked as a research technician since 1987, and as of 2009, he has been employed as a molecular biologist at the Curie Institute in Paris, France. Of his artistic work, he says


 * "I practice a unique form of collage, which I call 'Sublimage' (paper and acrylic on glass). I also create text-based art, mostly overpainted books (negatexts). I also do performances and interventions that typically run for at least 8 hours."

He claims to have devised the longest acronym in the English language, Acronymic in his book Cipher and Poverty.

Books
The following are some books by Schertzer:
 * The House of Misfortune (1994). Tonguenail Books.
 * Short Films from the 14th Century (1994). Exile Editions.
 * A Hand for the Drowned (1994). Ekstasis Editions.
 * ''A Personal Dictionary' '(1997). Tonguenail Books.
 * Cipher and Poverty (The Book of Nothing) (1998). Ekstasis Editions.
 * Absulation(1998). Self-published.
 * Devil's Wine (2003). Self-published.
 * Peindicy (2007). Exile Editions.

Performances and interventions

 * Opacity. Vancouver (2000)
 * Les Essais
 * Diderot 2013
 * Les Ville Invisibles (Nuit Blanche 2015, Bruxelles)
 * Pain Proust