Bio

Jen Aitken (b.1985) makes sculptures and drawings that combine perceptual ambiguity with structural clarity. Based in Toronto, she received her MFA in 2014 from the University of Guelph, Ontario, and her BFA in 2010 from Emily Carr University, Vancouver. Aitken received a Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Award in 2021, and the Hnatyshyn Foundation and TD Bank Emerging Visual Artist Award in 2017. In 2022, Aitken was the inaugural RBC Emerging Artist in Residence at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. She was commissioned by the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, to create a site-specific installation for its 2020 Women to Watch exhibition. Aitken presented her first major institutional solo show at The Power Plant in Toronto in 2023, titled The Same Thing Looks Different. Her first large-scale public sculpture commission will be installed at the new headquarters of the National Bank of Canada, Montreal, in 2023. Aitken’s work is in public collections across Canada, including the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.

 

Contact

jen@jenaitken.com

Representation

Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada — metiviergallery.com

TrépanierBaer Gallery , Calgary, Alberta, Canada — trepanierbaer.com

 
 
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