Jessica Field
b. 1978
Education
2008 M.F.A. Open Media, Concordia University (Montreal, Canada)
2001 AOCAD Integrated Media, Ontario College of Art and Design (Toronto, Canada)
Selected Exhibitions
2020 Pari Nadimi Gallery
2018 Art et Science, 8e Biennale Nationale de Sculpture Contemporaine (Trois Rivieres, Canada)
2017 Durham Reach, Robert McLauglin Gallery (Oshawa, Canada)
2016 Parabolic Constructs, Station Gallery (Whitby, Canada)
2013 Et si les Robots Manageaient des pommes?, Maison des arts de Laval (Montreal, Canada)
2012 Automata Silent Films, Meaford Museum (Meaford, Canada)
Thinking Machine, Electric Eclectics Festival (Meaford, Canada)
2011 Parabolic Behaviours, Robert McLaughlin Gallery (Oshawa, Canada)
Common Pulse Festival, Durham Art Gallery (Durham, Canada)
2010 Robotic Dreams, Kunsthaus Graz (Graz, Austria)
Robotic Dreams, Museum Tinguely (Basel, Switzerland)
Field Studies, Inter/Access (Toronto, Canada)
2009 Field Studies, Oboro (Montreal, Canada)
2008 Electrohype 5th Biennial, Malmo Konsthall Gallery (Malmo, Sweden)
Maladjusted Ecosystem, Optica (Montreal, Canada)
2007 Les vases communicants e-art, Montreal Museum of Fine Art (Montreal, Canada)
Science in Art, UQAM Virtual Exhibition (Montreal, Canada)
2006 Phantasmata, Station Gallery (Whitby, Canada)
2004 Feedback, Inter/Access (Toronto, Canada)
Selected Artist Lectures
2012 Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
2008 Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
2005 Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Societe des Arts Technologiques, Montreal, Canada
Grants and Residencies
2016 Art Lab, Robert McLaughlin Gallery (Oshawa, Canada)
2012 Digital Media Mid-Career Research Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2011 Common Pulse Festival, Durham Art Gallery (Durham, Canada)
2008 Digital Media Mid-Career Artist Production Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2006 Research Grant, Social Science Humanities Research Council
2005 Digital Media Emerging Artist Production Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2004 Gibraltar Point International Artist Residency, Artscape (Toronto, Canada)
2003 Production Grant, Daniel Langlois Foundation of Arts, Sciences & Technologies
Press
2010 “Robotertraume”, Artinside, Summer 2010
Catalogs
2017 “Durham Reach”, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Canada (2017)
2011 “Parabolic Behaviours”, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Canada (2011)
2010 “Robot Dreams”, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland (2010)
“Art + Science Now”, Thames & Hudson, London, England (2010)
2008 “Electrohype 2008”, Malmo Konsthall Gallery, Malmo, Sweden (2008)
2006 “Robotic Immersive Environments and Artificial Life”, Subtle Technologies Festival, Toronto, Canada (2006)
Awards
2022 Digital Media Mid-Career 3 year Composite Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2021 Digital Media Mid-Career Research Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2020 Digital Media Mid-Career Production Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2008 Honourable Mention, Vida Life 11.0 (Madrid, Spain)
2005 Concordia University Graduate 2-year Fellowship (Montreal, Canada)
Campaign for a New Millennium Graduate Scholarship (Montreal, Canada)
2004 Honourable Mention, Vida Life 7.0 (Madrid, Spain)
2000 Optimist’s Award of Excellence (Ajax, Canada)
Women’s Art Association of Canada Scholarship (Toronto, Canada)
Solway Metal Sales Prize (Toronto, Canada)
1997 McLaughlin Art Gallery Lander Scholarship (Oshawa, Canada)
Granite Press Award (Pickering, Canada)