Lionel Biron was born in October 1943. He went to summer school at Harvard University in 1959 and 1960, after which he attended the University of New Hampshire, Durham and received his B.A. in History and Literature in 1963. He received a Certificat de Français Usuel for La Sorbonne at University of Paris in 1964 and then proceeded to get his M.A. in French Literature from the University of Iowa in Iowa City and then, in 1971, enter the doctoral program in the department of Romance Languages at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. When in Ann Arbor, he was an active supporter of the Youth Liberation Press, which in 1976 published the pamphlet, Growing Up Gay. He graduated with an ABD in French Literature.

Biron is a photographer who specializes in multicultural male erotic images, which he describes as the erotic portrait. His art often illustrates multiculturalism as a complex amalgam of anachronistic cultural elements including race. His work spans a period of more than 55 years of photography, all present on his website >, and all shot in a pure natural style that is so typical for Biron. “Biron is a man who shows what he stands for and his work, which he calls the Erotic Portrait, is the product of pure honesty,” (Beautiful Magazine).

BIRON's multicultural male photographs, which attempt in their explicitness to blur artificial distinctions between art and pornography, have been exhibited at the Scott Nichols Gallery in San Francisco and at the Au Bonheur du Jour Gallery in Paris. His photographs have also appeared in three books by Janssen Verlag and several magazines internationally including aK, OG, blue, XY, Trikone and Frontiers. San Francisco art/events images specializing in male multiculturalism. BIRON is represented in Paris by the Au Bonheur du Jour Gallery near the Louvre. His photographic work is archived in The Photos by BIRON Collection at the Kinsey Institute in Bloomington, Indiana. His main website – online since 1997 – with 200+ free photography galleries and digital photo books at: photos-biron.com

In the late 1970s, Biron collaborated with Gronk, Teddy Sandoval and Jerry Dreva — all mail artists, like him. The collection includes correspondence and the art exchanged with these artists in 1978-79. His own works are archived in the Photos by BIRON Collection at the Kinsey Institute at the University of Indiana in Bloomington.