Kelly Jazvac, Smocking (Forehead), salvaged billboard, thread, grommets, 2017

photo credit: Toni Hafkenscheid

Kelly Jazvac

Associate Professor, Studio Arts

Research areas: sculpture, installation, plastic waste, plastiglomerate, collage, visual arts, landscape, consumerism, pollution, sampling, geology, aesthetics, advertising strategies, environmental ethics, adaptations to environmental change, sustainable art practices

Contact information

Email:

kelly.jazvac@concordia.ca

Websites:

http://kellyjazvac.com
http://syntheticcollective.org

Biography

BIOGRAPHY

Kelly Jazvac (b. Hamilton, ON) works with plastic waste to probe the permanence of disposability. She often re-works found images from advertisements printed on plastic into new site-specific installations. She is also part of a SSHRC-funded plastic pollution research team called The Synthetic Collective, which includes scientists, artists and writers. She has upcoming exhibitions at MoMA (New York); Fierman Gallery (New York); The Musée D’Art Contemporain (Montréal), and Art Museum at the University of Toronto. Her recent exhibitions include the Eli and Edyth Broad Museum (East Lansing); Ujazdowski Castle CCA (Warsaw); and Fierman Gallery (New York). Her work has been written about in National Geographic, e-flux Journal, Hyperallergic, Art Forum, The New Yorker, Border Crossings, Canadian Art, C Magazine and The Brooklyn Rail. Her collaborative art/science research has been published in scientific journals including Nature Reviews, GSA Today, and Science of the Total Environment. She is based in Montreal, where she is an Associate Professor of Sculpture in the Department of Studio Arts.

Teaching activities

Current Courses Taught

Studio Art, SCUL 610/612

Studio Art, SCUL 210

Studio Art, SCUL 310/410

Past Courses Taught at other universities:

StudioArt, Introduction to Drawing,Lecturer, University of Victoria, 1^st year, 2005

StudioArt, VAS 2220, Sculpture, Installation,Performance, University of Western Ontario, 2^nd year, 2009-10

StudioArt, VAS 3300, Advanced Drawing, Universityof Western Ontario, 2^nd year, 2009-10

StudioArt, VAS 3320, Advanced Sculpture,Installation, Performance, University of Western Ontario, 3^rdyear, 2010, 2010-2011

StudioArt, VAS 9521/9561A, Graduate StudioElective: Work Ethic: Looking like you’re not trying and looking like you meanit, University of Western Ontario, graduate level 2010

StudioArt, VAS 4430, Practicum, Universityof Western Ontario, 4^th year, 2010

StudioArt, VAS 4491A, Independent Study,University of Western Ontario, 4^th year, 2010

StudioArt, VAS 4492B, Independent Study,University of Western Ontario, 4^th year, 2011

StudioArt, VAS 9681, PhD Independent Study inStudio Art, University of Western Ontario, graduate level 2011

StudioArt, VAS 2220, Sculpture and Installation,University of Western Ontario, 2^nd year, 2011-12

StudioArt, VAS 4499X Inter-InstitutionalInstallation, 4^th year, Winter 2012 (Cohen Explorations Program:Collaborative Exchange with NSCAD University)

StudioArt, VAS 9681, PhD Independent Study inStudio Art, University of Western Ontario, Fall 2012

StudioArt, VAS 3320, Advanced Sculpture andInstallation, University of Western Ontario, 3^rd year, 2012-2013

StudioArt, VAS 2274A, Art Now!, Universityof Western Ontario, 2^nd year, Fall 2012

StudioArt, 9544B, Graduate Studio Seminar, Winter2013

StudioArt, VAS3320/4499 Advanced Sculpture andInstallation, 3^rd and 4^th year, Winter 2014

StudioArt VAS 9521/9621 Artists’ ResearchMethods, Winter, graduate level, 2014

StudioArt, VAS 2220, Sculpture and Installation,2^nd year, Fall 2014

StudioArt, VAS3320/4499 Advanced Sculpture andInstallation, 3^rd and 4^th year, 2014-2015

StudioArt, VAS 2275B, Art Now!, Universityof Western Ontario, 2^nd year, Winter 2015

StudioArt VAS2222A, Sculpture and Installation,University of Western Ontario, 2^nd year, Fall 2015

StudioArt, VAS 3322, Sculpture andInstallation, University of Western Ontario, 3^rd year, Summer2016

StudioArt, VAS4430, Practicum, Universityof Western Ontario, 4^th year, Fall/Winter 2015-2016

StudioArt, VAS3320, Advanced Sculpture andInstallation, University of Western Ontario, 4^th year, Fall 2017

StudioArt VAS2222A, Sculpture and Installation,University of Western Ontario, 2^nd year, Fall 2017

Publications

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2021 (forthcoming) Polyempath Polyethylene, MacLaren Gallery, Barrie, ON
2020 (forthcoming) FIERMAN, New York, NY
2019 Fault Line Scenography, Carl Louie, Toronto, ON
2019 Plastiglomerates, The Eli and Edythe Broad Museum, East Lansing, MI
2018 Lamina Stamina (upcoming) Museum London, London, ON

2017 Rock Record, Fierman Gallery, New York

2017 Proof of Performances, Gallery TPW, Toronto, ON

2017 Sharp and Numb Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, MB

2016 BROWSING, installation at the former David Mirvish Gallery and Books on Art, curated

by Eleanor Johnston as an independent project affiliated with Nuit Blanche, Toronto,

2015 Site Words, Spoilers and Shoplifters, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, ON

2014 Anthropophotogenic , University of Waterloo Art Gallery, curated by Ivan Jurakic,

Waterloo, ON

2014 Recent Landscapes, Louis B. James Gallery, New York

2013 PARK, curated by Jon Davies, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON

2013 Impel With Puffs, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, ON

2012 Thermoloaded, Louis B. James, New York, NY

2010 New Vinyl Work, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, ON

2009 Hi Limit Slots , Khyber ICA, Halifax, NS

2008 Sticky , YYZ Artist’s Outlet, Toronto, ON

2007 Hot Tub and Paper Towels , Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, ON

2007 Upgrade , Toronto Sculpture Garden, Toronto, ON

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2021 (forthcoming) Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, organized by the Synthetic Collective, Toronto, ON

2020 (forthcoming) La machine qui enseignait des airs aux oiseaux, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, QC

2020 Broken Nature, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

2019 Plasticity of the Planet, Ujazdowski Castle CCA, Warsaw Poland

2019 Broken Nature (Part 1), XXII Triennnial International Exhibition, Milan Italy

2018 Learning From The Lake, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, curated by Katie Lawsen,

University of Toronto

2018 Desk Set, (four person exhibition with Marvin Gaye Cheywynd, Ayoung Kim and

Madison Bycroft), curated by Céline Poulin, CAC Brétigny, France

2018 Plastic Entanglements (touring), curated by Heather Davis, The Palmer Museum, Penn

State University, State College, PA

2017 Opening exhibition at The Museum of Capitalism, Oakland, CA

2017 Homestead, Carl Louie, London, ON

2017 Song of the Open Road, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2017 An absolute movement, Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2017 Atmospheres of Form, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, QC

2017 Crisp Edge, Fuzzy Border, Kristen Lorello Gallery, New York, NY

2016 A Stratigraphic Fiction , curated by Ginny Kollak, The Berman Museum, Philadelphia

2016 October , at Carl Louie Gallery, London, ON

2016 Vie d’ange , at Vie D’ange Gallery, Montreal, QC

2016 All This Time, Hugh Jackman Institute of Humanites, Art Museum at the University of

Toronto, curated by Jaclyn Quaresma, Toronto, ON

2016 The Future We Remember, The Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, curated by

Sarah Higgins and Cora Fisher, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

2016 Showroom, University of Toronto Art Centre and Barnicke Gallery, curated by Sarah

Robayo-Sheridan, Toronto, ON

2015 Rocks, Stones and Dust, University of Toronto Art Centre, curated by John Hampton,

Toronto, ON

2015 Organic Situation, Koenig and Clinton, New York, NY

2015 An other land…and in the other, our own, Prosjekstrom Normanns, curated by Ian Cofre,

Stavanger, Norway

2015 IN MY FAITH THERE IS LOVING AND DRINKING AND LOOKING AT THE SUN AS

MUCH AS YOU WOULD LIKE, Garden Avenue Projects, curated by Ella Dawn

McGeough, Toronto, ON

2015 Human Nature, (touring) Carleton University Art Gallery and the Kenderdine Art Gallery,

curated by Corinna Ghaznavi, Ottawa, ON and Saskatoon, SK

2014 Possible Futures: What is to be done? Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Melissa Bennett, Lucy

Howe, Stuart Reid and Gregory Tom, Windsor Triennial, Art Gallery of Windsor,

Windsor, ON

2013 Touch The Moon, curated by Kristen Lorello, Louis B. James, New York, NY

2013 Hybrid Painting, curated by Christiane Meyer-Stoll, as part of curated by_ vienna 2013 ,

Vienna

2013 More Than Two, curated by Micah Lexier, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery,

Toronto, ON

2013 Surface Tension, curated by Jacob Korzynski, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON

2013 No Boys with Frogs, DNA Artspace, London, ON

2011 Barroco Nova, curated by Patrick Mahon and Susan Edelstein, Museum London, ON

2011 You can never go home anymore , Louis B. James, New York, NY

2011 Body Asylum, Soi Fischer Gallery(three person exhibition),

Vancouver, BC

2011 Winter Show, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland

2010 Enthusiasm, curated by Nicholas Brown, Red Bull 381 Projects, (three person exhibition

with Abbas Akhavan and Ron Tran), Toronto, ON

2010 Things You Should Know…, ArtLab, University of Western Ontario, London, ON

2009 Air Conditioned Jungle , curated by Gregory Elgstrand, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto,

2009 Double Confluence , collaborative exhibition with Mitzi Pederson and Patrick Howlett,

Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin

2009 The Way I Are , curated by Katie Bethune-Leamen, Blackwood Gallery, University of

Toronto

2008 Pleinairism , curated by Kitty Scott, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik

2008 The Constant Search for a Better Way , curated by Bill Jeffries, Simon Fraser University

Gallery, Burnaby, BC

2008 Dream Home , Plug-In ICA, Winnipeg, MB

2007 Pulp , Open Space, curated by Megan Dickie, Ross MacCauly and Rebecca Michaels,

Victoria, BC

2005 Voitures à Controverse: Débrayé , The Darling Foundry, Montréal, QC