Kelly Jazvac
For the last fifteen years, Kelly Jazvac has made artworks with plastic discards from the advertising industry. Jazvac is interested in linking an environmental attunement to the evidence present in these materials: that is, certain human behaviours and attitudes that enable the climate crisis. This evidence is representationally, symbolically and physically embedded in the found photography that makes up the majority of her practice. Her co-authored, collaborative art/science research has been published in scientific journals including Nature Reviews, GSA Today, and Science of the Total Environment. Jazvac is also part of a plastic pollution research team called The Synthetic Collective, which includes scientists, artists, art historians, philosophers, and writers. The work of this research group is highly influential on Jazvac’s artistic practice.
Kelly Jazvac is a Canadian artist based in Montréal, Canada. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (MOCA), the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, the Montreal Museum of Contemporary art, The Museum of Modern Art (New York), The Art Museum at the University of Toronto, 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, Canadian Art Magazine, and The Brooklyn Rail. Her work can be found in the collections of the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, RBC art collection and the Caisse de dépôt et placement Québec.
Recent Exhibitions
A Tale of Small Moments: La propéthie des objets aléatoire
Curated by Anaïs Castro
From July 13 to September 6, 2024
Chapitre III - Group exhibition
From April 4 to May 25, 2024
Earthly - Group exhibition
From September 14 to October 14, 2023
The Accumulating Years
From September 11 to October 15, 2022
