JESSICA EATON
BORN 1977, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Lives and works in Montréal, Canada
EDUCATION
2006 BFA Photography, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada
SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019 Iterations (II), M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Iterations (I), Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal, Canada
2017 Pictures for Women, Higher Pictures, New York, NY
2016 M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Transmutations, Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal, Canada
2015 Wild Permutations, Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square, Oakville, ON Custom Colour, Higher Pictures, New York, NY Wild Permutations, MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
2014 Jessica Eaton: New Works, Jessica Bradley Gallery, Toronto, ON Ad Infinitum, The Photographers’ Gallery/The Hospital Club, London, UK
2013 Flash: Jessica Eaton, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA Hyères 2013: International Festival of Fashion and Photography, Hyères, France
2012 Polytopes, M+B, Los Angeles, CA Squeezed Coherent States, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto, ON
2011 Cubes for Albers and LeWitt, Higher Pictures, New York, NY The Whole is Greater Than The Sum of The Parts: Lucas Blalock and Jessica Eaton, Contact Gallery / Contact Photography Festival 2011, Toronto, ON
2010 Strata: New works by Jessica Eaton, Red Bull 381 Projects, Toronto, ON Umbra Penumbra, PUSH Galerie, Montréal, QC
2009 Variables, LES Gallery, Vancouver Photographs, Hunter and Cook HQ, Toronto, ON
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Fulhame’s Map, Nanaimo Art Gallery, BC, Canada Made Still, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2017 Canadian Biennial, National Gallery Of Canada, Ottowa, Canada
2016 There is nothing I could say that I haven’t thought before, in collaboration with Cynthia Daignault, Stems Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2015 Russian Doll, M+B, Los Angeles, CA Are You Experienced?, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON Mediated Images, Brandt New Gallery, Milan, Italy Under Construction – New Positions in American Photography, Pioneer Works Center for Art and Innovation, Brooklyn, NY Process and Abstraction, three-person show: Jessica Eaton, Mariah Robertson, Alison Rossiter, Cleveland Museum of Art’s Transformer Station, Cleveland, OH
2014 The Actual, Eleven Rivington, New York, NY Me and Benjamin, Galerie Xippas, Paris, France Who’s Afraid of Purple, Orange and Green?, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK Under Construction – New Positions in American Photography, Foam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Cut Fold Rewrite, Feldbuschwiesner, Berlin, Germany Speaking Through Paint: Hans Hofmann's Legacy Today, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY
2013 With a Trace: Photographs of Absence, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH Circling the Inverse Square, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, ON Color Acting, The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL Color as Material, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, FAFA Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2012: Attachments, The Hole, New York, NY Photography is Magic, Daegu Photography Bienniel, South Korea There is Something Happening Here, Bancolini Grimaldi, London, UK New Meditations, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, ON What’s the Point?, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY Phantasmagoria, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC Ristruttura, ProjectB Contemporary, Milan, Italy Photography Is, Higher Pictures, New York, NY Hyères 2012: International Festival of Fashion and Photography, Hyères, France Flash Forward Festival, Boston, MA
2011 Quebéc Triennial, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, QC Foam: Talent, Foam Fotographie Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands Flash Forward 2011, Magenta Foundation, Toronto, ON Always the Young Strangers, Higher Pictures, New York, NY If the Sun had a Sound it would Sound like This, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto, ON
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The Sum of All Colors, Sasha Wolf Gallery, New York, NY Sails, Cubes and Folds, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto, ON
2010 Constellation Program, curated by Nicholas Brown and Catherine Dean, Art Toronto, Toronto, ON 2010 Special Projects, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, ON Group Show TASCHEN, curated by Jon Feinstein and Amani Olu (Humble Arts), TASCHEN Book Store, New York, NY Day Glow, curated by Andrew Laumann, Nudashank Gallery, Baltimore, MD Summer Group Show, Angell Gallery, Toronto, ON HHS Showcase, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY 31 Women in Art Photography, Curated by Charlotte Cotton and Jon Feinstein, Affirmation Arts and Humble Arts Foundation, New York, NY 01, Presented by 01 Magaine, Curated by Redia Soltis and Jennilee Marigomen, 107 Shaw, Toronto, ON
2009 Mixtape, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY Night Vision Vol. II, Strathcona Park, Vancouver, BC 2008 The Hungry Ghost curated by Jay Isaac and Tony Romano, Paul Petro Project Space, Toronto, ON Up Art Contemporary Art Fair curated by Gregory Elgstrand, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON
2007 Incidental Geography curated by Lee Hutzulak, Gaff Gallery, Vancouver, BC Let There Be Light curated by Nicolas Pittman, Blanket Gallery, Vancouver, BC Pop Philosophy curated by Rachelle Sawatsky, Access Gallery, Vancouver, BC
PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
2011 Cross Canada Billboards, Public Art Installation in conjunction with the Contact Photography Festival, Avenue Van Horne, Montréal, QC Flash Forward Festival 2010: Cubes for Albers and LeWitt, Public Art Installation for the Magenta Foundation, Fairmont Battery Wharf, Boston, MA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2018 Campbell, James D. “Jessica Eaton: Iterations (I) at Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran,” Whitehot Magazine, September
2017 Campbell, James D. “Color is a Verb,” Ciel Variable, no. 105, Winter Knoblauch, Loring. “Jessica Eaton: Pictures for Women at Higher Pictures,” Collector Daily, February 13 Lauder, Adam. “Photogenesis: A Brief History of Light in Canada,” Border Crossings, no. 140
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2016 Enholm, Molly. “Jessica Eaton: Critics Picks,” Art Ltd, November/December Cain, Abigail. "8 Works to Collect by Canadian Artists at Art Toronto," Artsy, October 23 “Jessica Eaton’s Experimental Methods,” PDN Photo of the Day, September 27 Sandals, Leah. “25 Canadian Artists Longlisted for $50K Sobey Art Award,” Canadian Art, April 13
2015 Knoblauch, Loring. “Jessica Eaton, Custom Colour at Higher Pictures,” Collector Daily, May 4 Laurence, Robin. “Capture festival’s Jessica Eaton gives Dal Grauer Substation abstract pop,” The Georgia Straight, April 1 “Paradoxical Abstraction,” Artpress, March
2014 Moser, Gabrielle. “Lenscraft: Jessica Eaton Asks Us to Think About What We See,” Canadian Art, December 14 O’Hagan, Sean. “Jessica Eaton: From 50 Shades of Grey to the Hottest Photography Around,” The Guardian, January 24
2013 Horne, Alex. Jessica Eaton – Ad Infinitum, Design Week, December 12 Risch, Conor. “pdn’s 30 2013: Our Choice of New and Emerging Photographers to Watch,” pdn, March 11
2012 Wagley, Catherine. “Jessica Eaton: Polytopes”, photograph, December Moser, Gabrielle. “Lesncraft: Jessica Eaton Asks Us to Think About What We See,” CanadianArt, December Risch, Conor. “Jessica Eaton’s Abstract Analogue Photographs,” pdn: Photo Distric News December McLellen, Ashley. “Phantasmagoria: Images Unveiled,” Canadian Art Online, June, Smyth, Diane, “Jessica Eaton Wins the Hyeres Photography Prize,” British Journal of Photography, April Rothman, Lily. Jessica Eaton: Cube, Color, Cosmos, TIME Lightbox Profile, May Smyth, Diane. “The Perfect Playground,” British Journal of Photography, March Doran, Anne. “Jessica Eaton at Higher Pictures,” Art in America, March Corsano, Otino. “Interview with Jessica Eaton,” The Believer Online, Feb Durantini, Lorenzo. “Ristruttura,” The Art Writing Guild
2011 Wallace, Doug. “Top 20 Reasons to be in Canada: Jessica Eaton,” Wallpaper Jaeger, Anne-Celine. “Jessica Eaton Interview: Foam Talent,” Foam International Photography Magazine, Issue 28 Walsh, Meeka. “Jessica Eaton: New Work,” Border Crossing Magazine, Volume 30, Number 3, Issue 119 Bouthillier, Rose. “Jessica Eaton: Strata,” C Magazine 110, Summer Cotter, Holland. “Always the Young Strangers,” New York Times, June 9 Alleti, Vince. “Always the Young Strangers,” The New Yorker, June 3 Alleti, Vince. “The Sum of All Colors,” The New Yorker, May 2 Hall, Peter. “Matter: Photographers Jessica Eaton, Matthew Gamber and Bill Sullivan,” Design by Mary Voorhees Meehan, Self Published with support of the Humble Arts Foundation
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Robertson, Rebecca. “Building Pictures” (and cover image), ARTNews Magazine, Volume 110, Number 3, March
2010 Turner, Leah. “Jessica Eaton,” Color Magazine, Issue 8.6, December Twerdy, Saelan. “Strata: New Works by Jessica Eaton,” Exhibition Catalogue Essay, Red Bull 381 Projects Hammond, Aaron. “Avant Art: Glass Profiles The Most Exciting New Artists,” Glass Magazine U.K., Issue 4, Fall Twerdy, Saelan. “New Vision Revisited: The Critical Abstraction of Jessica Eaton,” BlackFlash Magazine, Issue 28.1, Fall Callaghan, Lori. “Shedding New Light on Photography,” Montreal Gazette, May 22 Dewolfe, Stacey. “Wonder at Push,” Montreal Mirror, May Lavalette, Shane and Bühler-Rose. Michael: Ed. “Lay Flat 02: Meta,” Lay Flat Publications
2009 Casasanta, Maryanne. “Such and Such Forms, “Jessica Eaton Interview, 01 Magazine, Issue 4 Rodo–Vankeulen Noel. “Mystic and Magician: The Photographs of Jessica Eaton,” Hunter and Cook 04, Sept Twerdy, Salean. “Variables,” LES Gallery, July Wolberger, Ofer. “Jessica Eaton,” www.horsesthink.com, April Rodo–Vankeulen, Noel, Mini Review: Jessica Eaton at Hunter and Cook, www.wecantpaint.com, April Saplys, Terese. “Colour Me There,” www.dailyvalue.wordpress.com, April Bekmen, Jen. “Tuesday Edition: Jessica Eaton,” www.20x200.com, July Bernstein. “A and B and RGB,” www.thefuturist.ca, July
2008 Rodo–Vankeulen, Noel. “Visualizing the Invisible,” www.wecantpaint.com, August
2007 Booth, Matt; Gray. Jonah; Hurley, Sasha: Editors, Pyramid Power, Issue 1 Sawatsky, Rachelle. “While Virilio Declares that 'War was my University' the Camera is the University for Eaton,” Pop Philosophy Exhibition Catalogue, Access Artist Run Centre,
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (VIDEO/AUDIO)
2019 “New York Galleries: What to See Right Now”, The New York Times, November 6 Twerdy, Saelan. "The Visionary: Jessica Eaton’s alternate reality," BlackFlash Magazine, March Horne, Stephen. "Système ou poème?," Ciel Variable, January
2018 “Jessica Eaton – That is Picture,” documentary film by Clark Ferguson, 6:27, https://vimeo.com/288883685 Jessica Eaton Interview, “Art Scene and Heard,” 90.3 FM ckut, Montreal, September 6, https://we.tl/t-X91jEi7sOR
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2015 “upNOW: JESSICA EATON on her exhibition Wild Permutations,” MoCA Cleveland, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RhfQIcNFvw
2014 “Jessica Eaton,” Transformer Station, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qo6QlS_slk
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2014 Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Creation Project Grant
2013 Aimia | AGO Photography Prize, Canada PDN 30 2013: Photographers to Watch, USA
2012 Hyères, Photography Jury Grand Prize, FR
2011 Talents, Foam International Photography Magazine, NL Bright Spark Award: Flash Forward Emerging Photographers from the UK, Canada and USA, Magenta Foundation Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Creation project grant recipient "Cubes for Albers and LeWitt", Visual Arts Section Humble Arts Foundation New Photography Grant, Spring
2009 Hey Hot Shot, Jen Bekman Projects, NY
2008 Flash Forward: Emerging Photographers from the UK, Canada and USA
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL UBS Art Collection, New York, NY Bidwell Projects, Cleveland, OH Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Canada The Sir Elton John Photography Collection AIMIA Collection, Toronto, Canada Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Canada Hydro Québec Collection, Montréal, Canada Joddes Ltd., Toronto, Canada La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, Montréal, Canada BMO Art Collection, Toronto, Canada TD Bank Group Collection, Toronto, Canada RBC Royal Bank Collection, Toronto, Canada Scotiabank, Toronto, Canada
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