I have traveled from pole to pole using objects, oral narratives, photography, and painting to evoke entanglements between colonialism, globalism and our current environmental crisis. Engaging with communities in the Canadian Arctic, Antarctica, Iceland, and Italy my projects collaboratively build knowledge across a human and beyond-human spectrum. The variety of voices involved—including poets, penguins and philosophers—reveals the storied matter of these regions. Drawing time forwards and backwards, my practice uses art as a site for the imaginary, that both recognizes and resists colonial attitudes as we collectively imagine possible futures.
I have created site-specific works for the New Jersey MOCA, Asbury Park, New Jersey; the Castello di Corigliano, Puglia, Italy; Governors Island, NY, NY; and The Albany Airport, Albany, NY. Select solo exhibitions include The Arktikum Museum, Rovaniemi, Finland; Art Mûr and Occurrence Galleries, Montreal, Canada; The Latimer House Museum, New York, NY; and The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, TN (upcoming). I have received funding from the Canada Council for the Arts and my work is in the collections of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Prêt d’œuvres d’art, Musée national des Beaux-Arts du Quebec; Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ), Montreal, Quebec; Bank of Montreal, Toronto; and the Consulate General of Monaco, Montreal. I have been invited to The Albers Foundation Residency (Bethel, CT); Centre SAGAMIE, Research/Creation Residency (Alma, QC); CAMAC Centre for Art, Science and Technology (Marnay-sur-Seine, France); and NES Artist Residency (Skagaströnd, Iceland).
Jessica Houston
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Research/Creation Residency
Research/creation residency focused on digital image processing and wide format digital printing.