Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 Time Scale, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON
2022 The Accumulating Years, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montréal, QC
2021 Polyempath Polyethylene, curated by Katie Lawson, MacLaren Gallery, Barrie, ON
2021 They forgot they were a landscape, FIERMAN Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Fault Line Scenography, Carl Louie, Toronto, ON
2019 Plastiglomerates, The Eli and Edythe Broad Museum, University of Michigan, East Lansing, MI
2018 Lamina Stamina, curated by Cassandra Getty, Museum London, London, ON
2017 Rock Record, FIERMAN Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Proof of Performances, Gallery TPW, Toronto, ON
2017 Sharp and Numb, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, curated by John Hampton, Brandon, MB
2016 BROWSING, installation at the former David Mirvish Gallery and Books on Art, curated by Eleanor Johnston as an independent project affiliated with Nuit Blanche, Toronto, ON
2015 Site Words, Spoilers and Shoplifters, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2014 Anthropophotogenic, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, curated by Ivan Jurakic, Waterloo, ON
2014 Recent Landscapes, Louis B. James Gallery, New York
2013 PARK, curated by Jon Davies, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON
2013 Impel With Puffs, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2012 Thermoloaded, Louis B. James, New York, NY
2010 New Vinyl Work, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2009 Hi Limit Slots, Khyber ICA, Halifax, NS
2008 Sticky, YYZ Artist’s Outlet, Toronto, ON
2007 Hot Tub and Paper Towels, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2007 Upgrade, Toronto Sculpture Garden, Toronto, ON
2007 Part of the Enterprise, The Drawing Room, University of Victoria, BC
2004 D.I.Y.G.P.S., Zsa Zsa Gallery, Toronto, ON
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 CAR SHOW, Erin Stump Projects, Toronto, ON
2022 Le Synthétique au Coeur de l’Humain, Canadian Cultural Center, at the Canadian Embassy in Paris, France
2021 Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, ON 2021 Incomplete Open, two person exhibition with Mathieu Lacroix at MacBride Contemporary, Montréal, QC
2021 Temps Longs, curated by Bénédicte Ramade, UQÀM, Montréal, QC
2020 La machine qui enseignait des airs aux oiseaux, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal, curated by Mark Lanctot and François LeTourneux, QC 2020 Broken Nature, curated by Paola Antonelli, The Museum of Modern Art, New York 2019 Plasticity of the Planet, Ujazdowski Castle CCA, Warsaw, Poland 2019 Broken Nature, curated by Paola Antonelli (MOMA, NY), XXII Triennial International, Exhibition, Milan, Italy 2018 Laughing and Crying, curated by Friends and Neighbours Gallery at Espace Pop, Montreal, PQ 2018 Museum of Capitalism, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, Boston, MA 2018 Learning from the Lake, Art Museum, curated by Katie Lawson, University of Toronto 2018 Desk Set, (four person exhibition with Marvin Gaye Cheywynd, Ayoung Kim and Madison Bycroft), Curated by Céline Poulin, CAC Brétigny, France 2018 Plastic Entanglements (touring), curated by Heather Davis, The Palmer Museum, Penn State University, State College, PA 2017 Opening exhibition at The Museum of Capitalism, Oakland, CA 2017 Homestead, Carl Louie, London, ON 2017 Song of the Open Road, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2017 An absolute movement, Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2017 Atmospheres of Form, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, QC 2017 Crisp Edge, Fuzzy Border, Kristen Lorello Gallery, New York, NY 2016 A Stratigraphic Fiction, curated by Ginny Kollak, The Berman Museum, Philadelphia 2016 October, at Carl Louie Gallery, London, ON 2016 Vie d’ange, at Vie D’ange Gallery, Montreal, QC 2016 All This Time, Hugh Jackman Institute of Humanites, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, curated by Jaclyn Quaresma, Toronto, ON 2016 The Future We Remember, The Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, curated by Sarah Higgins and Cora Fisher, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 2016 Showroom, University of Toronto Art Centre and Barnicke Gallery, curated by Sarah Robayo-Sheridan, Toronto, ON 2015 Rocks, Stones and Dust, University of Toronto Art Centre, curated by John Hampton, Toronto, ON 2015 Organic Situation, Koenig and Clinton, New York, NY 2015 An other land…and in the other, our own, Prosjekstrom Normanns, curated by Ian Cofre, Stavanger, Norway 2015 IN MY FAITH THERE IS LOVING AND DRINKING AND LOOKING AT THE SUN AS MUCH AS YOU WOULD LIKE, Garden Avenue Projects, curated by Ella Dawn McGeough, Toronto, ON 2015 Human Nature, (touring) Carleton University Art Gallery and the Kenderdine Art Gallery, curated by Corinna Ghaznavi, Ottawa, ON and Saskatoon, SK 2014 Possible Futures: What is to be done? Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Melissa Bennett, Lucy Howe, Stuart Reid and Gregory Tom, Windsor Triennial, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, ON 2013 Touch The Moon, curated by Kristen Lorello, Louis B. James, New York, NY 2013 Hybrid Painting, curated by Christiane Meyer-Stoll, as part of curated by_ vienna 2013, Vienna 2013 More Than Two, curated by Micah Lexier, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, ON 2013 Surface Tension, curated by Jacob Korzynski, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON 2013 Voyager and Stowaways, curated by Patrick Mahon, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON 2013 Sample, The ArtLab, London, ON 2013 No Boys with Frogs, DNA Artspace, London, ON 2011 Barroco Nova, curated by Patrick Mahon and Susan Edelstein, Museum London, ON 2011 You can never go home anymore, Louis B. James, New York, NY 2011 Body Asylum, Soi Fischer Gallery (three person exhibition), Vancouver, BC 2011 Winter Show, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland 2010 Enthusiasm, curated by Nicholas Brown, Red Bull 381 Projects, (three person exhibition), Toronto, ON 2010 Things You Should Know…, ArtLab, University of Western Ontario, London, ON 2009 Air Conditioned Jungle, curated by Gregory Elgstrand, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, ON 2009 Double Confluence, collaborative exhibition with Mitzi Pederson and Patrick Howlett, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin 2009 The Way I Are, curated by Katie Bethune-Leamen, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto 2008 Pleinairism, curated by Kitty Scott, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik 2008 The Constant Search for a Better Way, curated by Bill Jeffries, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, BC 2008 Dream Home, Plug-In ICA, Winnipeg, MB 2007 Pulp, Open Space, curated by Megan Dickie, Ross MacCauly and Rebecca Michaels, Victoria, BC 2005 Kelly Jazvac and Lucy Pullen, Exhibition Hall, curated by Luanne Martineau, University of Victoria, BC
2005 So, you want to think freely! Production Studio Exhibitions, twcurated by Lucy Pullen, Vancouver, BC
2005 Voitures à Controverse: Débrayé, The Darling Foundry, Montréal, QC 2005 The McCleave Gallery Cross Canada Tour, the Ministry of Casual Living, Victoria, ODD Gallery, Dawson City, YK 2004 MOBLOG, web-based exhibition curated by Dr. Susan Douglas, Guelph, ON
Catalogues
La machine qui enseignait des airs aux oiseaux, published by the Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal, 2020
Broken Nature, Milan Triennial Catalogue, published by Rizzoli, New York, 2019
Kelly Jazvac: Lamina Stamina, published by Museum London, London, Ontario, 2018
Kelly Jazvac: Plastiglomerate, published by Durable Good, Toronto, Ontario, 2017
Why Painting Now? curated by_ vienna 2013, Vienna, AT, 2013
Barroco Nova: Neo-Baroque Moves in Contemporary Art, ARTLAB Gallery, University of Western Ontario
Kelly Jazvac: Flop, Space Studios, London, UK, 200
Articles, Exhibition Reviews and Interviews
Maïlys Celeux-Lanval, “How artists use plastic to talk about ecology,” Beaux Arts, December 2, 2022.
Noémie Fortin, Synthetic Collective, in Esse,Winter 2022.
Louis Bury, Gray and Green: Maya Lin at Madison Square Park, in ArtNews, June 17, 2021
Jérôme Delgado, “Se frotter à l’art, en vrai,” Le Devoir, le 13 février, 2021
Jérôme Delgado, “Arts visuels: chanterons-nous avec les machines?” Le Devoir, 23 janvier, 2021
Kathleen Langjahr, “Form outshines function at the MoMA’s Broken Nature,” The Architect’s Newspaper, January 19, 2021
Leah Collins, “What does it take to make art green?” in CBC Arts, January 21, 2020.
Beth Stuart, “Lo Strappo,” in Canadian Art Magazine, October 19, 2019.
Paola Antonelli, Paola Antonelli on ‘Plastiglomerates’, Pollution and Geology,” Metropolis Magazine, March 10, 2019. Available at https://www.metropolismag.com/design/paola-antonelli-plastiglomerates-broken-nature/
Augusta Pownall, “We don’t have the power to stop our extinction” says Paola Antonelli, dezeen, February 2019
Michele Calzavara, “Let’s do the right thing,” Arbitare, February 2019.
Alice Rawsthorn, “Broken Nature curated by Paola Antonelli wins Wallpaper Design Award,” Wallpaper, January 2019
Amanda Boetzkes, Plastic Capitalism: Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste, MIT Press, 2019.
“Une nouvelle ère géologique,” Le Devoir, le 6 avril, 2019.
Chris Hampton, “The Green Cube,” Canadian Art Magazine, Fall 2018.
Kim Neudorf, “Kelly Jazvac at Museum London,” at Akimbo.ca, August 28, 2018. Available at http://www.akimbo.ca/akimblog/?id=1391
June Parker, “Planet or Plastic?” in National Geographic, June 2018.
Chris Hampton, “Sculptor Kelly Jazvac let’s no scrap of plastic go to waste“ in The Globe and Mail, June 7, 2018. Available at https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and-architecture/article-sculptor-kelly-jazvac-lets-nothing-go-to-waste/
Weiyi Chang, “Interview with Kelly Jazvac.” C Magazine, Spring 2017.
Meredith Miller, “Views from the Plastisphere: a preface to Post-Rock.” Avery Review. 13, 2016. Available at http://www.averyreview.com/issues/13/views-from-the-plastisphere
Robert Enright, “Border Views: Kelly Jazvac.” Border Crossings. June 2016. Volume 35, No. 2, Issue No. 138.
Heather Davis, “Plastic: Accumulation without Metabolism” in catalogue for Placing the Golden Spike Milwaukee: INOVA, 2015, pp. 66-73.
Ben Valentine, “Plastiglomerate, the Anthropocene’s new Stone: Interview with Kelly Jazvac.” November 25, 2015. Available at http://hyperallergic.com/249396/plastiglomerate-the-anthropocenes-new-stone/
Heather Davis, “Plastic Progeny: The Plastisphere and other Queer Futures.” PhiloSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism. 5.2 (summer 2015): 231-250.
Gillian Dykeman, “Working it Out: Kelly Jazvac,” ARTSLANT New York, podcast episode 5, August, 2015.
Rachel Mason, “Plastiglomerate: The Rock of the Future Made into Sculpture.” The Huffington Post. August 29, 2014. Available at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rachel-mason/plastiglomerate-the-rock-_b_5736394.html
Joseph Castro, “Plastic Legacy: Humankind’s Trash Is Now a New Rock,” Live Science. June 2014 Available at http://www.livescience.com/46057-human-trash-becomes-new-plastiglomerate-rock.html
David Bielo, “I just want to say one word to you: Plastiglomerate,” American Scientific. June 2014. Available at http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/i-just-want-to-say-one-word-to-you-plastiglomerate1/
Blane Brownell, “Rocks on a polluted beach reveal human impact,” Architect Magazine. June 2014. Available at http://www.architectmagazine.com/alternative-materials/rocks-on-a-polluted-beach-reveal-human-impact_o.aspx?dfpzone=home
Caoimhe Morgan-Feir, “Exhibition Reviews: Kelly Jazvac,” Magenta Magazine. Spring 2014, Vol 5, No. 1. Available at http://www.magentafoundation.org/magazine/kelly-jazvac/
Ben Portis, “Surface Tension,” C Magazine, Spring 2014, Issue 121, p. 61-62.
“Touch the Moon,” The New Yorker, January 13, 2014, p. 10.
Stephanie Cormier, “Kelly Jazvac and Kelly Wood at Diaz Contemporary,” Border Crossings, June- August 2013, Vol. 32, Issue 2, p. 140.
R.H. Lossin, “Kelly Jazvac: Thermoloaded.” The Brooklyn Rail. June, 2012. Available at http://www.brooklynrail.org/2012/06/artseen/kelly-jazvac-thermoloaded
Robert Enright, “Barroco, We Hardly Knew You,” Border Crossings, Issue #120, Winter 2012: p. 18.
R.H. Lossin, “The Conundrum of Pre-Apocalyptic Art,” A Gathering of the Tribes (online) November 2011. Available at http://www.tribes.org/web/2011/11/07/you-can-never-go-home-anymore-the-conundrum-of-pre-apocalyptic-art-by-r-h-lossin/#more-3148
Vanessa Nicholas, “Vinyl Virtuoso,” Canadian Art Online, May 15 2010.
Gary Michael Dault, “Kelly Jazvac at Diaz Contemporary,” The Globe and Mail. April 24, 2010.
Rodney Latourelle, “Akimblog Berlin,” www.akimbo.ca, July 28 2009.
Alex Snukal, “The Way I Are.” C Magazine. June 2009.
Katie Bethune-Leamen. “The Constant Search for a Better Way.” Border Crossings, December 2008. Issue 108.
Josie Walker, “Kelly Jazvac Interview,” November 2008. http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/ All_Content_Items/Artists_Space/Kelly_Jazvac_interview/
Dan Adler, “Critic’s Picks: Kelly Jazvac at YYZ Artists Outlet.” http://artforum.com/archive/id=21095, September 15, 2008.
Amy Verner, “‘New and improved’ is so last year: the hottest word on everyone’s tongue? Upgrade.” The Globe and Mail. March 29, 2008.
Essays (on the Artist’s Work)
Noémi Fortin, “Rockhounding, Seafaring, and Other Material Tales for the End of the World,” The Goose, Volume 18, No. 1, Winter 2020.
Isa Tousignant, “The overflowingly meaningful art of Kelly Jazvac,” exhibition essay for Lamina Stamina, 2018
Jonathan Griffin, “Transcendant Trash Wads: An Ongoing History of Recalcitrant Lumps,” 2017
Alison Cooley, “Sharp and Numb,” exhibition essay Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, 2017
Kirsty Robertson, “Plastiglomerate,” essay in e-flux journal, no. 78, December, 2016.
Ginny Kollak, “A Stratigraphic Fiction,” exhibition essay, 2016.
Cora Fisher, “The Future We Remember,” exhibition essay, 2016.
Ella Dawn McGeough, “IN MY FAITH…” Garden Avenue Project exhibition essay, Summer 2015.
Ian Cofre, “An other land.. and also in our own,” Projekstrom Normanns exhibition essay, June 2015.
Jon Davies, “Kelly Jazvac: No Promises, No Demands,” Oakville Galleries exhibition essay. November 2013.
Jacob Korczynski, “Surface Tension,” Oakville Galleries exhibition essay. September 2013.
Nicholas Brown, “Enthusiasm,” Red Bull 381 projects exhibition essay. October 2010.
Jonathan Griffin, “Kelly Jazvac,” Space Studios catalogue essay. February 27, 2009.
Katie Bethune-Leamen, “The Way I Are.” Blackwood exhibition essay. January 21 2009.
Katie Bethune Leamen, “Sticky. Droopy Slumpy Peely or “Inchoaaaaaaaaaaaate!”(as if yelled into a canyon).” YYZ exhibition essay. September 5 2008, Available at http://www.yyzartistsoutlet. org/exhibitions.asp?ID=238
Jeanne Randolph, “Read Car.” Toronto Sculpture Garden Exhibition Essay. October 3 2007.
Lucy Pullen, “So you want to think freely!” Production Studio Exhibition Essay. April 8 2005.
Articles Published
The Synthetic Collective (Ian A. Arturo, Sara L. Belontz, Tegan Moore, Kirsty Robertson, Kelly Wood, Kelly Jazvac, Heather Davis, Kelly Wood, Christina Battle), A DIY Fieldguide to Reducing the environmental Impact of Art Exhibitions. 2021.
Corcoran, P.L, Johanna de Haan Ward, Ian A. Arturo, Sara L. Belontz, Tegan Moore, Carylyn M. Hill-Svehla, Kirsty Robertson, Kelly Wood, Kelly Jazvac. “A comprehensive investigation of industrial plastic pellets on beaches across the Laurentian Great Lakes and the factors governing their distribution,” Science of the Total Environment, Vol. 747, 10 December 2020, 141227.
Corcoran, P.L., Jazvac, K. “The consequence that is plastiglomerate.” Nature, 1, 6–7 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-019-0010-9
Sara L. Belontz, Patricia L. Corcoran, Heather Davis, Kathleen A. Hill, Kelly Jazvac, Kirsty Robertson, Kelly Wood, “Embracing an Interdisciplinary Approach to Plastics Pollution Awareness and Action" in Ambio, 2019.
Kelly Jazvac, “Noni Knows,” ALMANAC, edited by Maggie Groat, published by the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Spring 2017.
Kelly Jazvac, “Thin, not flat: new prints by Sasha Pierce,” Open Studio exhibition essay, June 2015.
Patricia Corcoran, Charles Moore and Kelly Jazvac, “An anthropogenic marker horizon in the future rock record.” GSA Today. Vol. 24 No. 6, June 2014.
Kelly Jazvac, “Conglomerate Moment: Interview with Amy Brener.” Moire online magazine.
Kelly Jazvac, “On Parts You Can’t See: a Conversation between Polly Apfelbaum and Kelly Jazvac.” Kitchener: Old Mill Books, 2013. Published by Robert Linsley.
Kelly Jazvac, “Sasha Pierce: Tessalations.” Canadian Art Online, December 17th, 2013.
Kelly Jazvac, “The Self-Aware Stage-craft of Robert Hengeveld’s Living Sculptures.” Exhibition essay for Eastern Edge. Fall, 2013
Kelly Jazvac, “Older, Sadder and This Time All in White: exhibition review.” Border Crossings, Winter 2011.
Artist Lectures
2023 Panelist, “Exposer sans limites,” The Canadian Cultural Centre, at the Canadian Embassy in Paris
2023 Panelist, “Art et écoconception : une esthétique du suffisant pour les expositions de demain ?” The Canadian Cultural Centre, at the Canadian Embassy in Paris
2022 Artist Presentation, in.site, Sustainability Conference, Concordia University
2022 Artist Lecture, Memorial University, Cornerbrook, NF
2021 Artist Lecture, Parsons’ The New School, NY
2021 Artist Lecture, University of Victoria, BC 2021 Artist Lecture, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand 2021 FIERMAN Gallery, New York 2020 Artist Lecture, Memorial University, NL 2019 Artist Lecture, McEwen University, Edmonton, AB 2019 Artist Lecture, Ujazdowski Castle CCA, Warsaw, Poland 2019 Artist Lecture, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB 2019 Invited speaker for Broken Nature exhibition symposium, Milan, Italy 2018 Canadian Art Magazine panel on Climates, Toronto Art Fair, Toronto, ON 2018 The Work of Wind Land Air Water, at Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto, Mississauga, ON 2018 SGC International Conference: Altered Landscapes. Las Vegas, Nevada 2018 Artist Lecture, McGill University, Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Montréal, PC 2018 Art Metropole, Toronto, ON 2018 Plastics Pollution and Interdisciplinary Working Methods, Penn State University (with the Synthetic Collective) 2017 Artist Lecture, e-flux, New York 2017 Mountains and Rivers without End, Symposium at Western University, London, ON 2016 Running with Concepts, University of Toronto Blackwood Gallery, Missisauga, ON 2015 The Smithsonian American Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. 2015 Projekstrom Normanns, Stavanger, Norway 2014 Western University, Insight: Visual Arts Graduate Student Symposium, London, ON 2013 Concordia University, Montreal QC
2011 Museum London, London, ON
2011 Red Bull Projects, Toronto, ON
2010 The Power Plant, Sunday Scene, Toronto, ON 2009 NSCAD University, Halifax, NS
2008 Space Studios, London, U.K.
2008 Interaccess Gallery, Toronto, ON
2008 Mercer Union, Toronto, ON
2007 Open Space, Victoria, BC
2006 Laboratorio Artealmeda, Mexico City, MX
2006 Vancouver Island School of Art, Victoria, BC
2006 Camosun College, Victoria, BC
2005 The Ministry of Casual Living, Victoria BC
2022 Time Scale, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON
2022 The Accumulating Years, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montréal, QC
2021 Polyempath Polyethylene, curated by Katie Lawson, MacLaren Gallery, Barrie, ON
2021 They forgot they were a landscape, FIERMAN Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Fault Line Scenography, Carl Louie, Toronto, ON
2019 Plastiglomerates, The Eli and Edythe Broad Museum, University of Michigan, East Lansing, MI
2018 Lamina Stamina, curated by Cassandra Getty, Museum London, London, ON
2017 Rock Record, FIERMAN Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Proof of Performances, Gallery TPW, Toronto, ON
2017 Sharp and Numb, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, curated by John Hampton, Brandon, MB
2016 BROWSING, installation at the former David Mirvish Gallery and Books on Art, curated by Eleanor Johnston as an independent project affiliated with Nuit Blanche, Toronto, ON
2015 Site Words, Spoilers and Shoplifters, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2014 Anthropophotogenic, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, curated by Ivan Jurakic, Waterloo, ON
2014 Recent Landscapes, Louis B. James Gallery, New York
2013 PARK, curated by Jon Davies, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON
2013 Impel With Puffs, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2012 Thermoloaded, Louis B. James, New York, NY
2010 New Vinyl Work, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2009 Hi Limit Slots, Khyber ICA, Halifax, NS
2008 Sticky, YYZ Artist’s Outlet, Toronto, ON
2007 Hot Tub and Paper Towels, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2007 Upgrade, Toronto Sculpture Garden, Toronto, ON
2007 Part of the Enterprise, The Drawing Room, University of Victoria, BC
2004 D.I.Y.G.P.S., Zsa Zsa Gallery, Toronto, ON
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 CAR SHOW, Erin Stump Projects, Toronto, ON
2022 Le Synthétique au Coeur de l’Humain, Canadian Cultural Center, at the Canadian Embassy in Paris, France
2021 Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, ON 2021 Incomplete Open, two person exhibition with Mathieu Lacroix at MacBride Contemporary, Montréal, QC
2021 Temps Longs, curated by Bénédicte Ramade, UQÀM, Montréal, QC
2020 La machine qui enseignait des airs aux oiseaux, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal, curated by Mark Lanctot and François LeTourneux, QC 2020 Broken Nature, curated by Paola Antonelli, The Museum of Modern Art, New York 2019 Plasticity of the Planet, Ujazdowski Castle CCA, Warsaw, Poland 2019 Broken Nature, curated by Paola Antonelli (MOMA, NY), XXII Triennial International, Exhibition, Milan, Italy 2018 Laughing and Crying, curated by Friends and Neighbours Gallery at Espace Pop, Montreal, PQ 2018 Museum of Capitalism, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, Boston, MA 2018 Learning from the Lake, Art Museum, curated by Katie Lawson, University of Toronto 2018 Desk Set, (four person exhibition with Marvin Gaye Cheywynd, Ayoung Kim and Madison Bycroft), Curated by Céline Poulin, CAC Brétigny, France 2018 Plastic Entanglements (touring), curated by Heather Davis, The Palmer Museum, Penn State University, State College, PA 2017 Opening exhibition at The Museum of Capitalism, Oakland, CA 2017 Homestead, Carl Louie, London, ON 2017 Song of the Open Road, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2017 An absolute movement, Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2017 Atmospheres of Form, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, QC 2017 Crisp Edge, Fuzzy Border, Kristen Lorello Gallery, New York, NY 2016 A Stratigraphic Fiction, curated by Ginny Kollak, The Berman Museum, Philadelphia 2016 October, at Carl Louie Gallery, London, ON 2016 Vie d’ange, at Vie D’ange Gallery, Montreal, QC 2016 All This Time, Hugh Jackman Institute of Humanites, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, curated by Jaclyn Quaresma, Toronto, ON 2016 The Future We Remember, The Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, curated by Sarah Higgins and Cora Fisher, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 2016 Showroom, University of Toronto Art Centre and Barnicke Gallery, curated by Sarah Robayo-Sheridan, Toronto, ON 2015 Rocks, Stones and Dust, University of Toronto Art Centre, curated by John Hampton, Toronto, ON 2015 Organic Situation, Koenig and Clinton, New York, NY 2015 An other land…and in the other, our own, Prosjekstrom Normanns, curated by Ian Cofre, Stavanger, Norway 2015 IN MY FAITH THERE IS LOVING AND DRINKING AND LOOKING AT THE SUN AS MUCH AS YOU WOULD LIKE, Garden Avenue Projects, curated by Ella Dawn McGeough, Toronto, ON 2015 Human Nature, (touring) Carleton University Art Gallery and the Kenderdine Art Gallery, curated by Corinna Ghaznavi, Ottawa, ON and Saskatoon, SK 2014 Possible Futures: What is to be done? Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Melissa Bennett, Lucy Howe, Stuart Reid and Gregory Tom, Windsor Triennial, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, ON 2013 Touch The Moon, curated by Kristen Lorello, Louis B. James, New York, NY 2013 Hybrid Painting, curated by Christiane Meyer-Stoll, as part of curated by_ vienna 2013, Vienna 2013 More Than Two, curated by Micah Lexier, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, ON 2013 Surface Tension, curated by Jacob Korzynski, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON 2013 Voyager and Stowaways, curated by Patrick Mahon, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON 2013 Sample, The ArtLab, London, ON 2013 No Boys with Frogs, DNA Artspace, London, ON 2011 Barroco Nova, curated by Patrick Mahon and Susan Edelstein, Museum London, ON 2011 You can never go home anymore, Louis B. James, New York, NY 2011 Body Asylum, Soi Fischer Gallery (three person exhibition), Vancouver, BC 2011 Winter Show, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland 2010 Enthusiasm, curated by Nicholas Brown, Red Bull 381 Projects, (three person exhibition), Toronto, ON 2010 Things You Should Know…, ArtLab, University of Western Ontario, London, ON 2009 Air Conditioned Jungle, curated by Gregory Elgstrand, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, ON 2009 Double Confluence, collaborative exhibition with Mitzi Pederson and Patrick Howlett, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin 2009 The Way I Are, curated by Katie Bethune-Leamen, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto 2008 Pleinairism, curated by Kitty Scott, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik 2008 The Constant Search for a Better Way, curated by Bill Jeffries, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, BC 2008 Dream Home, Plug-In ICA, Winnipeg, MB 2007 Pulp, Open Space, curated by Megan Dickie, Ross MacCauly and Rebecca Michaels, Victoria, BC 2005 Kelly Jazvac and Lucy Pullen, Exhibition Hall, curated by Luanne Martineau, University of Victoria, BC
2005 So, you want to think freely! Production Studio Exhibitions, twcurated by Lucy Pullen, Vancouver, BC
2005 Voitures à Controverse: Débrayé, The Darling Foundry, Montréal, QC 2005 The McCleave Gallery Cross Canada Tour, the Ministry of Casual Living, Victoria, ODD Gallery, Dawson City, YK 2004 MOBLOG, web-based exhibition curated by Dr. Susan Douglas, Guelph, ON
Catalogues
La machine qui enseignait des airs aux oiseaux, published by the Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal, 2020
Broken Nature, Milan Triennial Catalogue, published by Rizzoli, New York, 2019
Kelly Jazvac: Lamina Stamina, published by Museum London, London, Ontario, 2018
Kelly Jazvac: Plastiglomerate, published by Durable Good, Toronto, Ontario, 2017
Why Painting Now? curated by_ vienna 2013, Vienna, AT, 2013
Barroco Nova: Neo-Baroque Moves in Contemporary Art, ARTLAB Gallery, University of Western Ontario
Kelly Jazvac: Flop, Space Studios, London, UK, 200
Articles, Exhibition Reviews and Interviews
Maïlys Celeux-Lanval, “How artists use plastic to talk about ecology,” Beaux Arts, December 2, 2022.
Noémie Fortin, Synthetic Collective, in Esse,Winter 2022.
Louis Bury, Gray and Green: Maya Lin at Madison Square Park, in ArtNews, June 17, 2021
Jérôme Delgado, “Se frotter à l’art, en vrai,” Le Devoir, le 13 février, 2021
Jérôme Delgado, “Arts visuels: chanterons-nous avec les machines?” Le Devoir, 23 janvier, 2021
Kathleen Langjahr, “Form outshines function at the MoMA’s Broken Nature,” The Architect’s Newspaper, January 19, 2021
Leah Collins, “What does it take to make art green?” in CBC Arts, January 21, 2020.
Beth Stuart, “Lo Strappo,” in Canadian Art Magazine, October 19, 2019.
Paola Antonelli, Paola Antonelli on ‘Plastiglomerates’, Pollution and Geology,” Metropolis Magazine, March 10, 2019. Available at https://www.metropolismag.com/design/paola-antonelli-plastiglomerates-broken-nature/
Augusta Pownall, “We don’t have the power to stop our extinction” says Paola Antonelli, dezeen, February 2019
Michele Calzavara, “Let’s do the right thing,” Arbitare, February 2019.
Alice Rawsthorn, “Broken Nature curated by Paola Antonelli wins Wallpaper Design Award,” Wallpaper, January 2019
Amanda Boetzkes, Plastic Capitalism: Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste, MIT Press, 2019.
“Une nouvelle ère géologique,” Le Devoir, le 6 avril, 2019.
Chris Hampton, “The Green Cube,” Canadian Art Magazine, Fall 2018.
Kim Neudorf, “Kelly Jazvac at Museum London,” at Akimbo.ca, August 28, 2018. Available at http://www.akimbo.ca/akimblog/?id=1391
June Parker, “Planet or Plastic?” in National Geographic, June 2018.
Chris Hampton, “Sculptor Kelly Jazvac let’s no scrap of plastic go to waste“ in The Globe and Mail, June 7, 2018. Available at https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and-architecture/article-sculptor-kelly-jazvac-lets-nothing-go-to-waste/
Weiyi Chang, “Interview with Kelly Jazvac.” C Magazine, Spring 2017.
Meredith Miller, “Views from the Plastisphere: a preface to Post-Rock.” Avery Review. 13, 2016. Available at http://www.averyreview.com/issues/13/views-from-the-plastisphere
Robert Enright, “Border Views: Kelly Jazvac.” Border Crossings. June 2016. Volume 35, No. 2, Issue No. 138.
Heather Davis, “Plastic: Accumulation without Metabolism” in catalogue for Placing the Golden Spike Milwaukee: INOVA, 2015, pp. 66-73.
Ben Valentine, “Plastiglomerate, the Anthropocene’s new Stone: Interview with Kelly Jazvac.” November 25, 2015. Available at http://hyperallergic.com/249396/plastiglomerate-the-anthropocenes-new-stone/
Heather Davis, “Plastic Progeny: The Plastisphere and other Queer Futures.” PhiloSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism. 5.2 (summer 2015): 231-250.
Gillian Dykeman, “Working it Out: Kelly Jazvac,” ARTSLANT New York, podcast episode 5, August, 2015.
Rachel Mason, “Plastiglomerate: The Rock of the Future Made into Sculpture.” The Huffington Post. August 29, 2014. Available at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rachel-mason/plastiglomerate-the-rock-_b_5736394.html
Joseph Castro, “Plastic Legacy: Humankind’s Trash Is Now a New Rock,” Live Science. June 2014 Available at http://www.livescience.com/46057-human-trash-becomes-new-plastiglomerate-rock.html
David Bielo, “I just want to say one word to you: Plastiglomerate,” American Scientific. June 2014. Available at http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/i-just-want-to-say-one-word-to-you-plastiglomerate1/
Blane Brownell, “Rocks on a polluted beach reveal human impact,” Architect Magazine. June 2014. Available at http://www.architectmagazine.com/alternative-materials/rocks-on-a-polluted-beach-reveal-human-impact_o.aspx?dfpzone=home
Caoimhe Morgan-Feir, “Exhibition Reviews: Kelly Jazvac,” Magenta Magazine. Spring 2014, Vol 5, No. 1. Available at http://www.magentafoundation.org/magazine/kelly-jazvac/
Ben Portis, “Surface Tension,” C Magazine, Spring 2014, Issue 121, p. 61-62.
“Touch the Moon,” The New Yorker, January 13, 2014, p. 10.
Stephanie Cormier, “Kelly Jazvac and Kelly Wood at Diaz Contemporary,” Border Crossings, June- August 2013, Vol. 32, Issue 2, p. 140.
R.H. Lossin, “Kelly Jazvac: Thermoloaded.” The Brooklyn Rail. June, 2012. Available at http://www.brooklynrail.org/2012/06/artseen/kelly-jazvac-thermoloaded
Robert Enright, “Barroco, We Hardly Knew You,” Border Crossings, Issue #120, Winter 2012: p. 18.
R.H. Lossin, “The Conundrum of Pre-Apocalyptic Art,” A Gathering of the Tribes (online) November 2011. Available at http://www.tribes.org/web/2011/11/07/you-can-never-go-home-anymore-the-conundrum-of-pre-apocalyptic-art-by-r-h-lossin/#more-3148
Vanessa Nicholas, “Vinyl Virtuoso,” Canadian Art Online, May 15 2010.
Gary Michael Dault, “Kelly Jazvac at Diaz Contemporary,” The Globe and Mail. April 24, 2010.
Rodney Latourelle, “Akimblog Berlin,” www.akimbo.ca, July 28 2009.
Alex Snukal, “The Way I Are.” C Magazine. June 2009.
Katie Bethune-Leamen. “The Constant Search for a Better Way.” Border Crossings, December 2008. Issue 108.
Josie Walker, “Kelly Jazvac Interview,” November 2008. http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/ All_Content_Items/Artists_Space/Kelly_Jazvac_interview/
Dan Adler, “Critic’s Picks: Kelly Jazvac at YYZ Artists Outlet.” http://artforum.com/archive/id=21095, September 15, 2008.
Amy Verner, “‘New and improved’ is so last year: the hottest word on everyone’s tongue? Upgrade.” The Globe and Mail. March 29, 2008.
Essays (on the Artist’s Work)
Noémi Fortin, “Rockhounding, Seafaring, and Other Material Tales for the End of the World,” The Goose, Volume 18, No. 1, Winter 2020.
Isa Tousignant, “The overflowingly meaningful art of Kelly Jazvac,” exhibition essay for Lamina Stamina, 2018
Jonathan Griffin, “Transcendant Trash Wads: An Ongoing History of Recalcitrant Lumps,” 2017
Alison Cooley, “Sharp and Numb,” exhibition essay Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, 2017
Kirsty Robertson, “Plastiglomerate,” essay in e-flux journal, no. 78, December, 2016.
Ginny Kollak, “A Stratigraphic Fiction,” exhibition essay, 2016.
Cora Fisher, “The Future We Remember,” exhibition essay, 2016.
Ella Dawn McGeough, “IN MY FAITH…” Garden Avenue Project exhibition essay, Summer 2015.
Ian Cofre, “An other land.. and also in our own,” Projekstrom Normanns exhibition essay, June 2015.
Jon Davies, “Kelly Jazvac: No Promises, No Demands,” Oakville Galleries exhibition essay. November 2013.
Jacob Korczynski, “Surface Tension,” Oakville Galleries exhibition essay. September 2013.
Nicholas Brown, “Enthusiasm,” Red Bull 381 projects exhibition essay. October 2010.
Jonathan Griffin, “Kelly Jazvac,” Space Studios catalogue essay. February 27, 2009.
Katie Bethune-Leamen, “The Way I Are.” Blackwood exhibition essay. January 21 2009.
Katie Bethune Leamen, “Sticky. Droopy Slumpy Peely or “Inchoaaaaaaaaaaaate!”(as if yelled into a canyon).” YYZ exhibition essay. September 5 2008, Available at http://www.yyzartistsoutlet. org/exhibitions.asp?ID=238
Jeanne Randolph, “Read Car.” Toronto Sculpture Garden Exhibition Essay. October 3 2007.
Lucy Pullen, “So you want to think freely!” Production Studio Exhibition Essay. April 8 2005.
Articles Published
The Synthetic Collective (Ian A. Arturo, Sara L. Belontz, Tegan Moore, Kirsty Robertson, Kelly Wood, Kelly Jazvac, Heather Davis, Kelly Wood, Christina Battle), A DIY Fieldguide to Reducing the environmental Impact of Art Exhibitions. 2021.
Corcoran, P.L, Johanna de Haan Ward, Ian A. Arturo, Sara L. Belontz, Tegan Moore, Carylyn M. Hill-Svehla, Kirsty Robertson, Kelly Wood, Kelly Jazvac. “A comprehensive investigation of industrial plastic pellets on beaches across the Laurentian Great Lakes and the factors governing their distribution,” Science of the Total Environment, Vol. 747, 10 December 2020, 141227.
Corcoran, P.L., Jazvac, K. “The consequence that is plastiglomerate.” Nature, 1, 6–7 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-019-0010-9
Sara L. Belontz, Patricia L. Corcoran, Heather Davis, Kathleen A. Hill, Kelly Jazvac, Kirsty Robertson, Kelly Wood, “Embracing an Interdisciplinary Approach to Plastics Pollution Awareness and Action" in Ambio, 2019.
Kelly Jazvac, “Noni Knows,” ALMANAC, edited by Maggie Groat, published by the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Spring 2017.
Kelly Jazvac, “Thin, not flat: new prints by Sasha Pierce,” Open Studio exhibition essay, June 2015.
Patricia Corcoran, Charles Moore and Kelly Jazvac, “An anthropogenic marker horizon in the future rock record.” GSA Today. Vol. 24 No. 6, June 2014.
Kelly Jazvac, “Conglomerate Moment: Interview with Amy Brener.” Moire online magazine.
Kelly Jazvac, “On Parts You Can’t See: a Conversation between Polly Apfelbaum and Kelly Jazvac.” Kitchener: Old Mill Books, 2013. Published by Robert Linsley.
Kelly Jazvac, “Sasha Pierce: Tessalations.” Canadian Art Online, December 17th, 2013.
Kelly Jazvac, “The Self-Aware Stage-craft of Robert Hengeveld’s Living Sculptures.” Exhibition essay for Eastern Edge. Fall, 2013
Kelly Jazvac, “Older, Sadder and This Time All in White: exhibition review.” Border Crossings, Winter 2011.
Artist Lectures
2023 Panelist, “Exposer sans limites,” The Canadian Cultural Centre, at the Canadian Embassy in Paris
2023 Panelist, “Art et écoconception : une esthétique du suffisant pour les expositions de demain ?” The Canadian Cultural Centre, at the Canadian Embassy in Paris
2022 Artist Presentation, in.site, Sustainability Conference, Concordia University
2022 Artist Lecture, Memorial University, Cornerbrook, NF
2021 Artist Lecture, Parsons’ The New School, NY
2021 Artist Lecture, University of Victoria, BC 2021 Artist Lecture, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand 2021 FIERMAN Gallery, New York 2020 Artist Lecture, Memorial University, NL 2019 Artist Lecture, McEwen University, Edmonton, AB 2019 Artist Lecture, Ujazdowski Castle CCA, Warsaw, Poland 2019 Artist Lecture, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB 2019 Invited speaker for Broken Nature exhibition symposium, Milan, Italy 2018 Canadian Art Magazine panel on Climates, Toronto Art Fair, Toronto, ON 2018 The Work of Wind Land Air Water, at Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto, Mississauga, ON 2018 SGC International Conference: Altered Landscapes. Las Vegas, Nevada 2018 Artist Lecture, McGill University, Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Montréal, PC 2018 Art Metropole, Toronto, ON 2018 Plastics Pollution and Interdisciplinary Working Methods, Penn State University (with the Synthetic Collective) 2017 Artist Lecture, e-flux, New York 2017 Mountains and Rivers without End, Symposium at Western University, London, ON 2016 Running with Concepts, University of Toronto Blackwood Gallery, Missisauga, ON 2015 The Smithsonian American Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. 2015 Projekstrom Normanns, Stavanger, Norway 2014 Western University, Insight: Visual Arts Graduate Student Symposium, London, ON 2013 Concordia University, Montreal QC
2011 Museum London, London, ON
2011 Red Bull Projects, Toronto, ON
2010 The Power Plant, Sunday Scene, Toronto, ON 2009 NSCAD University, Halifax, NS
2008 Space Studios, London, U.K.
2008 Interaccess Gallery, Toronto, ON
2008 Mercer Union, Toronto, ON
2007 Open Space, Victoria, BC
2006 Laboratorio Artealmeda, Mexico City, MX
2006 Vancouver Island School of Art, Victoria, BC
2006 Camosun College, Victoria, BC
2005 The Ministry of Casual Living, Victoria BC