'''Jacques Louis Nyst''' (1942 – March 12, 1996) was a Belgian video artist and educator.<ref name=argos/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://heure-exquise.org/auteur.php?id=1276 |title=Nyst Jacques Louis et Danièle |work=Heure Exquise |publisher=Centre international pour les arts vidéo}}</ref>
He was born in Liège and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid and in Liège. He was a professor of drawing and video at the Academy of Fine Arts in Liège.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://transmediale.de/content/jacques-louis-and-dani%C3%A8le-nyst |title=Jacques Louis and Danièle Nyst |work=transmediale}}</ref> Nyst worked in collaboration with his wife Danièle from 1983 to 1995.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.argosarts.org/artist.jsp?artistid=1ff448f0368d49c4bafe32cdb710c29a |title=Danièle Nyst |publisher=Argos Center for Art and Media}}</ref>
Their work was exhibited at various international venues, including the {{Interlanguage link multi|Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain de Liège|fr}}, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, the International Festival of Video in Tokyo, the São Paulo Art Biennial, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the Biennale de Paris and the Locarno International Film Festival.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eai.org/artistBio.htm?id=449 |title=Danièle and Jacques Louis Nyst |work=Electronic Arts Intermix |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314050602/http://www.eai.org/artistBio.htm?id=449 |archivedate=2016-03-14 }}</ref>
He died in Sprimont in 1996.<ref name=argos>{{cite web |url=http://www.argosarts.org/artist.jsp?artistid=f5fe2419dcbb4a5ab830dcd62785a3ee |title=Jacques Louis Nyst |publisher=Argos Center for Art and Media}}</ref>
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