Biography
Jessica Campbell was born in Victoria, BC. In 2011 she completed a BFA in painting and drawing at Concordia University in Montréal. She is presently a MFA candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
'In the case of my paintings, rooms are drawn from memories of my old homes and those of family and friends, phrases are pulled from recurring family stories and jokes. These images are mnemonic devices that allow me to remember spaces and relationships changed or gone; yet they are investigations of the malleability of memory as much as ruminations on specific places. Objects shift and morph in and out of one another, colour jumps from place to place and multiple perspectives compete irreconcilably.' Jessica Campbell
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2012 Learning to Live with Your Aloneness' Galerie Laroche/Joncas, Montréal 12/15-01/26
2011 Making Room, (w/ Rachel Shaw) Studio 427, Belgo Building, Montréal QC 2010 Art Anarcholympics (w/ Bridget Moser), Red Bird, Montréal QC
2009 You Don’t Have to Go Home, But You Can’t Stay Here, Gallery X, Montréal QC
2009 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, (w/ Bridget Moser), Art Pop Montreal, Montréal QC
2008 Pictionary (w/ Darcy Cooke), VAV Gallery, Concordia, Montréal QC
2008 Colour Coded, the FiftyFifty Arts Collective, Victoria BC
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Art Toronto Stand Galerie Laroche/Joncas
2011 Combine 2011, FoFA Gallery, Montréal QC
2011 Graduating Students Exhibition, VAV Gallery, Concordia, Montréal QC 2011 Mental, Galerie Onze, Cegep Vieux Montréal, Montréal, QC
2011 stART, Gallery Studio 21, Halifax NS
2011 We’ve Been Here Before, Studio 303, Montreal QC 2009 Art Pop Fundraiser, Push Gallery, Montreal QC 2009 Fresh Paint, New Construction, Art Mûr, Montréal, QC
2009 Demon Night, Lab Synthese, Montréal QC
2009 Orange Table, Galerie Onze, Cegep Vieux Montréal , Montréal QC
2009 Surface Tension, Les Territoires Gallery, Montréal, QC
2009 The Beginning/The End, Les Territoires Gallery, Montréal, QC
PUBLICATIONS
“Foreword,” COMBINE 2010 catalogue, FoFA Gallery, December 2010
REVIEWS AND EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
Plante, Marie-Michele. “Jessica Campbell,” COMBINE 2011 catalogue, FoFA Gallery, December 2011
Ugolini, Rebecca. “Come together right now,” The Concordian, November 22, 2011
Pohl, John. “Jean Paul Lemieux’s northern views are an easy sell,” The Gazette, November 19, 2011
Chan, Crystal. “Warped Interiors,” The Montreal Mirror, November 17, 2011
Crummey, Rachel. “Making Room With Jessica Campbell and Rachel Shaw,” Primed, November 16, 2011. Web. November 16, 2011
Gay, Sofia. “Public Places For Private Spaces,” The Concordian, November 15, 2011
Barnard, Elissa. “Studio 21 exhibits art from students across Canada,” Chronicle Herald, April 1, 2011 “Nuit Blanche: Best Bets for Montreal’s All-Night Art Party,” CanadianArt.com, February 2, 2010
Fadden, Robin. “Dream Big,” The Hour, October 1, 2009
Eisen, Jaime and Natalie Gitt. “Appetite For Destruction,” The Link, September 29, 2009
Avrashi, Adam. “Piñata Playhouse,” The Concordian, September 29, 2009
Dewolfe, Stacey. “Autumn Harvest,” Montreal Mirror, September 10, 2009
Lortie, Marie-Claude. “La bonne affaire de la semaine” La Presse (blog), August 5, 2009
Boulianne, Mario. “De Gatineau à Québec en 24 heures.” Le Droit, July 27, 2009
Dewolfe, Stacey. “All Killer, No Filler.” The Montreal Mirror, July 23, 2009
Mavrikakis, Nicolas. “Peinture fraîche et nouvelle construction: Artistes de demain?” Voir, July 12, 2009
Fadden, Robin. “Hitlist.” The Hour, July 9, 2009
“Accolades,” Concordia Journal, June 4, 2009
Dewolfe, Stacey. “Heated Spaces.” Montreal Mirror, June 4, 2009
Delgado, Jérôme. “Montréal -Vieilles photos et peinture fraîche s'affichent sur murs et sur rues.” Le Devoir, May 9, 2009
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2012 Vermont Studio Center Residency with Artist Grant
2011 BMO 1st Art! Invitational Student Art Competition Longlist
2011 Undergraduate Travel Grant, Concordia University
2011 Fine Arts Students Alliance Special Project Grant
2010 Art Dealers Association of Canada Art Foundation Scholarship
2009-10 BC Arts Council Visual Art Senior Award Scholarship
2009 Stanley Mills Prize
2008–09 BC Arts Council Visual Art Senior Award Scholarship
2008 Undergraduate Travel Grant, Concordia University
2008 Fine Arts Students Alliance Special Project Grant
2007 Fine Arts Students Alliance Special Project Grant
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