Jamie Q

Jamie Q works in a variety of media including painting, drawing, zine-making, printmaking, and sculpture. She has shown her art in exhibitions across Canada, including her first major solo show at Art Metropole in Toronto. Her recent research focuses on the politics and aesthetics of the do-it-yourself ethic, as well as the social potential of art objects and DIY distribution strategies. She has distributed her solo and collaborative art zines across Canada and the United States, recently as part of a group exhibition in Istanbul. Her work has also been shown in Buffalo and San Francisco, and was selected for an exhibition of contemporary Canadian art in Malmö, Sweden in 2011. Jamie Q has a BFA from the Alberta College of Art & Design (2002) and an MFA from The University of Western Ontario (2010). She lives and works in London, Ontario.

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