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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