Bio
Jen Aitken makes sculptures, drawings, and video animations that confront your body in space. She approaches material and process like a builder, creating unidentifiable forms about intimacy, gesture, and architecture. Based in Toronto, Aitken has exhibited her work across Canada, as well as in New York, Los Angeles, and Shanghai. She presented her first institutional solo show at The Power Plant in Toronto in 2023, titled The Same Thing Looks Different. Her first large-scale public sculpture commission was installed at the new headquarters of the National Bank of Canada, Montreal, in 2023. Aitken was the inaugural RBC Emerging Artist in Residence at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in 2022. 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’s work is in public collections across Canada, including the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.
Contact
hello at jen aitken dot com
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