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curriculum vitae, bibliography and press.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
Radical Stitch / (in collaboration with Catherine Blackburn) / touring 2023-2025
Let Me Take You There / Doris McCarthy Gallery, Scarborough, ON / may 13 – july 23, 2023
Kali Yuga / Art Gallery Southwestern Manitoba / Brandon, MB / january 26 – april 1, 2023
Hunter / Gatherer / McIntosh Gallery, London, ON / september 22 – december 10, 2022
HOMEWARD / dC3 Gallery / Edmonton, AB / september 9 – 24th, 2022
Ancestor Dreamin’, part of CONVERGENCE (Summer Collection 2022) / collaboration with Catherine Blackburn & Melanie Leblanc / SWAIA Fashion Show, Santa Fe, NM / august 20-21, 2022
10th Biennale nationale de sculpture contemporaine / Galerie d’art du Parc, Trois-Rivières, QC / jun 23-sep 9, 2022
Flora / Fauna / Fiber: Textile Trends in Contemporary Art / Mary M. Torggler Fine Arts Center, VA, USA / jun 3 – oct 8, 202
Anima / Maison de la culture de Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montreal, QC / jun 11 – sep 5 2021
Terra Nova : Regard sur le présent et le futur / Art Mûr, 25th Anniversary Exhibition / Montreal, QC / february 9 – april 24th, 2021
The World is Bound by Secret Knots : Apologues I – XI / Art Mûr / Montreal, QC / september 5 – october 24, 2020
Castaways: A Climate Action Project / Robert Bateman Centre Gallery / Victoria, BC / march 6 – sept 26, 2020
WILD! / curated by Farah Yusuf / Textile Museum of Canada / Toronto, ON / oct 2, 2019 – march 15, 2020
CENTREPIECE / SAMARA Contemporary / Toronto, ON / march 2 – march 24, 2019
The World is Bound by Secret Knots: Apologues I – X / Eastern Edge, St. Johns, NL / january 11 – february 15, 2019
RELAY: The Institute of Everyday Life / FoFA Gallery, Montreal, QC / november 5 – december 15, 2018
Curious Fauna / Upstairs Gallery & PROOF Studio Gallery, Distillery District, Toronto, ON / september 5 – 30, 2018
The World is Bound by Secret Knots: Apologues I – X / ODD Gallery, Dawson City, YK / june 28 – july 31, 2018
Grow Op 2018: After the Flood (invited artist) / Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON / april 18 – 22, 2018
Hybrid Bodies Project / Winchester School of Art Galleries, Winchester, UK / april 11 – 27, 2018
The Dollhouse at the End of the World / Incubator for Phantom Pregnancies Collective / Galerie YMUNO, Montreal, QC / february 6 – march 17, 2018
Hybrid Bodies Project / London Gallery West, London, UK / november 20 – 24, 2017
After the Hunt, Hamilton Artists Inc / Hamilton, ON / august 31 – october 28, 2017
After the Hunt, Harcourt House / Edmonton, AB / january 26 – february 25, 2017
Grandeur Nature / Life Size / Art Mûr / Montreal, QC / november 5 – december 17, 2016
After the Hunt / Union Gallery, Queens University / Kingston, ON / september 16 – november 11, 2016
Taiga Spirit, Commissioned Large-Scale Public Site Specific Sculpture / Osheaga 2016 / Montréal, QC / july 29 – 31, 2016
Fiberart International Triennial / Pittsburgh, USA / may 6 – august 21, 2016
In Conversation with Raymonde April and Emily Jan / Optica Gallery / Montreal, QC / march 25 – april 3, 2016
Voisins/Neighbours / Galerie SKOL / Montreal, QC / january 15 – february 27, 2016
After the Hunt, Artcite / Windsor, ON / october 24 – november 18, 2015
you maniacs you blew it up! / PDA Projects / Ottawa, ON / july 1 - august 1, 2015
future folklore, M. A. I. / Montreal, QC / march 28 – may 9, 2015
OK OK OK, Les Ateliers Jean Brillant / Montreal, QC / may 10 – 24, 2014
falling through the mirror, Latitude 53 / Edmonton, AB / march 7 – april 19, 2014
falling through the mirror, FoFA Gallery / Montreal, QC / february 25 – april 5, 2013
De Rerum Natura, World of Threads Festival, / Oakville/Toronto, ON / november 2 – 18, 2012
Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre
Spectrum / Spectro, Museo Textil de Oaxaca / Oaxaca, Mexico / may 2 – 9 2012
AIRE: World Textile Art 6th International Biennial / San Agustin Etla, Mexico / may 28 – june 26, 2011
(winner: 3rd place, Salon de Reciclaje)
TRA(MA)PA, Casa de la Cultura / Holguin, Cuba / may 2 – 8, 2011
BABEL, Romerías de Mayo
PROJECTS & RESIDENCIES:
Artist in Residence, Eastern Edge Gallery / St. John’s, NL / may 6 – jun 10, 2022
Artist in Remote Residence: Field Trip / Contemporary Calgary & AGA Khan Museum / virtual / august 26 – oct 1, 2020
Artist in Residence, Union House Arts / Historic Port Union, Bonavista Peninsula, NL / august 28 - september 22, 2019
Invited Artist in Residence, Artscape Gibraltar Point / Toronto Island, Toronto, ON / april 2 – 16, 2018
Artist in Residence, Elsewhere Museum, collaboration with artist Chris Flower / Greensboro, NC, USA / april 12 – may 10, 2017
Artist in Residence, Denali National Park / Denali National Park, AK, USA / june 7 – 17, 2016
"The Amazon Pt I: Night" / Edge of the Forest / collaboration with artist & radio host Antoine Bertin, for NTS London / original air date: january 15, 2016.
"I Like My Nature" (The Amazon Pt II: Day) / Edge of the Forest / collaboration with artist & radio host Antoine Bertin, for NTS London / original air date: may 4, 2016
Peruvian Amazon Expedition, The Clipperton Project / Puerto Prado, Peru / september 10 – 30, 2015
BIBLIOGRAPHY & PRESS:
Kali Yuga : An Imagined Ecosystem Brings Together Myth and Reality / Lindsay Inglis, Galleries West / mar 2023
Kali Yuga : Curatorial essay and exhibition booklet / Lucie Lederhendler, AGSM, Brandon, ON / jan 2023
Interview with Helen Adams of Textile Curator / Textile Curator, www.textilecurator.com / mar 2021
“Wild at the Textile Museum of Canada” / Terence Dick, Akimbo, Toronto, ON / feb 2020
Review: Wild, at the Textile Museum of Canada / Maya Wilson-Sanchez, Canadian Art, Antimatter / jan 2020
“Who knew quilts could be so inspiring? An artist’s guide to the Textile Museum of Canada” / Leah Collins, CBC Arts, Toronto, ON / may 21, 2019
“We can’t break our ties to the natural world: Emily Jan’s art begs us to re-examine our earth” / Veronica Zaretski, CBC ARTS, Toronto, ON / feb 13, 2019
“Emily Jan at Eastern Edge” / interviewed by Andrew Waterman for Kicker News, St. John’s, NL / jan 19, 2019
“Where Art and Science Meet: Emily Jan” / exhibition essay for Eastern Edge Gallery by Gloria Hickey / jan 2019
“Emily Jan’s The World is Bound by Secret Knots at Eastern Edge Gallery” / Eva Crocker, The Overcast, St. John’s, NL / jan 11, 2019
"The World is Bound by Secret Knots: Emily Jan's Magnetic Bestiary" / exhibition essay for ODD Gallery by Marie-Hélène Lemaire / june 28, 2018
"Take a look at the cool eco-art taking over the Gladstone Hotel right now" / Ali Amad, Toronto Life / april 19, 2019
"After the Hunt is Done" / exhibition essay for Hamilton Artists Inc by Janna Hiemstra, CEO at Craft Ontario / october, 2017
Guest artist in the Loft, Season Four (2017-2018) Formule Diaz / TéléQuébec, Montreal, QC / original air date: Sept 11, 2017
Emily Jan: After the Hunt / Anne Billy: Fleeting Memory / exhibition catalogue, Jocelyn Purdie & Ellyn Walker, Union Gallery Press, Queens University / nov 2016
"Sentments Grandeur Nature" / Agnès Gaudet, Le Journal de Montréal / november 5, 2016
HopScotch Opens in Uptown St John / Melissa Smith, The East Magazine / september 3, 2016
"Programmation artisque : l'autre visage d'Osheaga" / Vice Du Jour, Vice Magazine / august 2, 2016
"Folklore Futur: retrouver l'animation des êtres et des choses" by Marie-Hélène Lemaire / Espace Art Actuel / published Fall 2015
"Folklore Futur" curatorial statement by Michael Toppings, Artistic & Executive Director / Montréal, Arts Interculturels / published April 2015 / PDF (English) / PDF (Français)
"After the Hunt / Before the Fall" essay by Dr. Tammer El-Sheikh / Montréal, Arts Interculturels / published March 28, 2015 / PDF (English) / PDF (Français)
"Monstres et merveilles" by Paméla de Massias de Bonne / Magazine Muses / published April 8 2015 / http://bit.ly/1D6c6rf
New Territories: Laboratories for Art, Craft, and Design in Latin America, ed. Lowery Stokes Sims, Mari-Carmen Ramirez et al / Museum of Arts and Design, NYC / published November 2014 / http://bit.ly/1y3mF2f
Textile Art Around the World, by Ellen Bakker / Textile-Link, Utrecht, Netherlands / published October 2014 / http://bit.ly/1wMsyef
"School's Out for Summer and the Kids Are OK: An MFA Thesis Exhibition", by Reilley Bishop-Stall and Natalie Zayne Bussey/ Passenger Art, may 26, 2014/ http://bit.ly/1kphVXp
"Fierce Fairytales", hosted and edited by Megan Clark/ ArtBeat, CKUA, mar 30 – apr 5, 2014 / https://soundcloud.com/ckuaradio/artbeat-fiercefairytales
"The Chimaera" by jake moore/ Exhibition essay, Latitude 53, March 2014/ http://www.latitude53.org/archive/2014/falling
"Hybrids, monsters, and fear: falling through the mirror", by Angela Johnston / The Griff, March 5, 2014/ http://bit.ly/1fF856a
"falling through the mirror", by Meaghan Baxter / Vue Weekly, Issue #959, March 5, 2014 / http://www.vueweekly.com/falling-through-the-mirror/
Featured Artist Interview: Emily Jan interviewed by Jacquelyn Hébert / Branch Magazine, Issue No. 10, “Mythology”, May 2013 / http://branchmagazine.com/archives/issue10/index.html
“Naturally Mythological”, by Liz Crompton / Concordia University Featured Student Profile, March 2013/ http://bit.ly/ZwrsRY
“Ten Up-and-Coming Canadian Fibre Artists to Watch”, by Gareth Bate / Fibre Focus Magazine, Volume 55, No 1 March 2012
Artist Interview: Emily Jan, interviewed by Dawne Rudman / World of Threads Festival Weekly Artist Interviews, October 10, 2011 / http://bit.ly/pj2q9z
Catalogue: VI Bienal International de Arte Textile Contemporáneo, Oaxaca, 2011 / August 2011 / Produced by the World Textile Art Organization.
VIDEO:
Mehcinut, Official Music Video / Jeremy Dutcher, Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa
Gladstone Hotel, Grow Op 2018: After the Flood
DHC / ART Foundation – Capsule Video, An Interview with Emily Jan