Jessica Arseneau





Education

2021:  Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art: Activist Neuroaesthetics in Cognitive Capitalism
2016-2020:  Masters of Media Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig
2017:  International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg
2007-2011:  Bachelor of Visual Arts, Université de Moncton


Solo Exhibitions

2025:  Spotlights, HilbertRaum, Berlin
2024:  Aubes, L'Oeil de Poisson, Québec
2022:  Soleil immobile, Motoco, Mulhouse
2021:  Dawns, Urbane Künste Ruhr & Ringlokschuppen Ruhr, Mülheim
           Surrounding Uncaring Skies, Galerie Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen, Moncton
2020:  Nothing but a Constant Glow, Spinnerei Archiv Massiv, Leipzig
2016:  The Screen Under My Eyelids, Helmut, Leipzig
            Lost Idyll, Galerie Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen, Moncton
2012:  It's Falling off the Sky Since a Few Days, Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton


Duo Exhibitions

2023:  My Whole Surface Is Turned Towards You, with Philipp Valenta, Galerie Historischer Keller, Berlin
2017:  schmaler grat, Festival Lindenow, with Mandy Gehrt, Berlin


Selected Group Exhibitions, Screenings, Festivals

2025:  MÜLHEIM CALLING, Biennale, Kunstmuseum Mülheim, Mülheim an der Ruhr
           Gesägt, night gehobelt, Atelier Borkheide
           Video Art Nights, B_LA_M, Mexican Consulate, Los Angeles

           All that Glitters, Regenbogenfabrik Kino, Berlin
2024:  zwischen_zeit, zwischen_zeit, Essen
           MURmur, 24 Stunden Neukölln, promo promo studio, Berlin
           Festival HTMlles, Ada X, Groupe Intervention Vidéo, Montreal
           Une si courte éternité, Centre multifonctionnel, Shediac
           Power up, imaginaires techniques et utopies sociales, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse
2023:  Your Tails on Your Heads, DISKURS Berlin
           Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava
           La Grande rencontre des arts médiatiques en Gaspésie, Percé
           Vector Festival, InterAccess, Toronto
           Radio Insomnia, InSomnolence, Hexagram-UQAM, Montreal
2022:  Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin
           Bandung Photography Triennale, Bandung
           Approaching the Unknown,Galerie der HFBK, Hamburg
           ANuit de la photographie, Festival 9 ph, Lyon
2021:  Fluid Grounds, a&o Kunsthalle, Leipzig
           Ab — Raum, D21 Kunstraum, Leipzig
           Forma 10+1, forma Leipzig
2020:  Lichtspiele des Westens, Schaubühne Lindenfels
2019:  Public POOL #7, Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille
           VAR13, Westpol Airspace, Leipzig
2018:  Destillat, Festival Lindenow, Leipzig
           It's Just a Matter of Utility, Lindenauer Hafen, Leipzig
           Perfiction, Galerie 301, Seoul
2017:  Lancements, Groupe Intervention Video, Montréal
            Not Really Made, HGB Galerie, Leipzig
2016:  Rencontres Traverse Vidéo, Toulouse
2015:  Mittelweg, Agora Collective, Berlin
           Synthetic Zero Event, , BronxArtSpace, New York
2014:  From City to Nature, Darling Foundry, Montreal
2013:  Séances Éphémères, Festival du cinéma francophone en Acadie, Moncton
           Complot X : DÉGÂT, Grover Building, Montreal
2012:  OK.Quoi?! Contemporary Arts Festival, Struts Gallery, Sackville
           Peinture fraîche et nouvelle construction, Art Mur, Montreal
2012:  Soif de paroles, Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton


Residencies

2023:  Est-Nord-Est, artist residencies, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli
2022:  Goethe-Institut Strasbourg, AZ - ALLEZ & ZURÜCK, Mulhouse
2021:  Urbane Künste Ruhr, 12-Month Residency, Mülheim an der Ruhr
2018:  Lichtenberg Studios, Berlin
2015:  Agora Collective, AFFECT: Mittelweg, Berlin
2014:  ElMadina for Performing and Digital Arts, Alexandria


Prizes, Scholarships, Selected Grants

2025:  Winner of the Prize of the Mülheimer Kunstverein
2024:  Winner of the Prize Éloize (Prix Éloize), Artist of the Year in Visual Arts
           artsnb, Working Grant
2023:  Canada Council for the Arts, Concept to Realization, Working Grant
           Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant
           artsnb, Travel Grant
2022:  artsnb, Working Grant
           Deutschen Künstlerbund, Neustart Kultur, Working Grant
2021:  Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art, Scholarship
2020:  Canada Council for the Arts, Explore and Create, Working Grant
           Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, Denkzeit, Working Grant
           Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, Diploma Distinction
2017:  International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg, Grant
           Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation, Advanced Studies Grant
2012:  The Curtlands Foundation Prize
           artsnb, Grant for Emerging Artist
2011:  Atelier d'estampe Imago, Imago Bursary
           Université de Moncton, Bachelor Distinction


Selected Published Writings

2011:  Weaponizing Precarity: An Interview With RM Vaughan, Visual Arts News, Summer Issue

Selected Catalogues, Reviews, Press Covers

2025:  Gewinnerin des Preises des Mülheimer Kunstvereins steht fest, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
2024:  Power up, Exhibition's Catalogue, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse
2023:  Julia Eilers Smith, Texte-témoin, Est-Nord-Est
2022:  Ann-Katrin Günzel, Exkurse, KUNSTFORUM International, No. 284
2017:  ZUHAUSE - HOME SWEET HOME, Exhibition’s Catalogue, Kulturbahnhof
           Operation Grenze, Exhibition’s Catalogue, Memorial of Geman Division Marienborn
2016:  Mikel Oxtotenko, Mille fois rien / Lost Idyll [Review], Festival’s Catalogue, Traverse Vidéo
2014:  FAAS 4 : Rien à vendre = Not for Sale, Festival’s Catalogue, Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario
           50 ans // 50 artistes // 50 oeuvres, Exhibition’s Catalogue, Galerie Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen
2013:  Catherine Lafranchise, Illusion astronomique, Publication of Projet Complot X : Dégât
2012:  Herménégilde Chiasson, Soif de parole [...], Liaison No. 158–Arts Acadie, Ontario, Ouest