Louis Pons was born in Marseille in 1927. Experiencing a certain degree of poverty and suffering from tuberculosis, Pons entered a sanatorium at the age of 21. He stayed there for more than a year. After that, he lived in the countryside.

Louis Pons never kept a job for long, whatever it was. He turned to artistic practice. He began with newspaper caricature, i.e. drawing. He made this choice out of sobriety (of finances) and freedom (of movement). Although Louis Pons learned his art far from academies or schools, Hercules Seghers, Rodolphe Bresdin, Louis Soutter and Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze) were four artists who Louis Pons recognized as his masters.

During the 1960s, Louis Pons suffered from a major eye problem coupled with migraines. He was forced to abandon drawing, a practice requiring too much concentration and putting too much strain on his eyesight. Pons's drawings were then limited to the images adorned on envelopes or letters that he sent to his loved ones and which, very often, recounted the adventures of a bird or a rat called "Snop ".

Louis Pons went on to focus on assemblages. Perhaps it was in the artist's studio - established when his financial situation allowed him to settle in a permanent location - that the idea of ​​assemblages was born: in Louis Pons’s studio – a joyous mess – things sat together and were assembled together; the artist helped along their reconciliation or their improbable union.

In 1972, Louis Pons's partner died. He moved to Paris the following year where he continued to devote himself to assemblage.

Louis Pons was represented by Le Point Cardinal gallery, then by the Claude Bernard gallery.