Born in 1949 in Beaconsfield, Nicole Benoit studied Industrial Design at the Université de Montréal and obtained a master's degree in Visual Arts from Concordia University. Since 1971 she has been working in various cultural fields, particularly in visual arts and communications. In 1999, as part of Un Abécédaire, a project initiated by Vidéographe involving 28 authors, she made the video A comme Aveugle.