A body of Play
Play is a life-giving energy. It disarms us, connects us and empowers us to reclaim pleasure. We live in systems that ask us to foresake this mindset in the name of efficiency, but what are we building, if not on a foundation of self-awareness, love and interconnection?
About
Amy Jenine is a multidisciplinary artist creating using the language of cuteness and play. As a third generation Chinese diaspora, her work is informed by the collective stories of her parents, notably her father’s escape from Mao’s China before the Cultural Revolution as a boy, and her maternal great-grandmother’s experience as a young “mui”, indentured to work for a family she was shipped to in Canada. But not all stories are about pain. There’s also the resistance in her family’s laughter and adventurous spirit, and their shared rerooting to new lands (Hong Kong, Peru, Japan, Canada).
The belief that beauty can be a form of protest and that play can encourage our collective healing is at the heart of Amy’s work.
C.V.
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2007 International Baccalaureate, Toronto French School
2011 Honours Bachelor of Arts and Science in Visual Studies, University of Toronto
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2017 GOOD DAY SHOP, The Image Factory Art Foundation, Belize City, Central America.
2011 SURROGATE_ _SELF, EEL Gallery, Toronto.
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2018 Open Studio for Dalston Arts Winter Weekend, London, United Kingdom.
2017 Lucky Pockets, Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, Asheville, North Carolina, USA.
2011 Re: Encounter, Artscape Triangle Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
2011 Chancellor’s Exhibition (juried: Honorable Mentions), University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Coterie 21, Visual Studies Thesis Art Show, Borden Building, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
2011 New Toronto Works, Pleasuredome, Poor Alex Theatre, Toronto, Canada.
Extra-Rational,FADO’s Emerging Artists Series, XPACE Cultural Centre, Toronto, Canada.
2011 YOUR NEXT LIFE, The White House, Toronto, Canada.
2010 Reperformance of Marina Abramovic’s Imponderabilia, Nuit Blanche, JMB Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
2010 The House that Masons Built, Mason House, Toronto, Canada.
2010 Wrath of Math, IMAGES Festival, XPACE Cultural Centre, Toronto, Canada.
2010 ____go,Trinity College Art Show, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
2009 Insomnia, Nuit Blanche, Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
2008 The Politics of Puberty, Whippersnapper Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
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2020 Active IQ Level Two Certificate in Gym Instruction
2019 Level One Usui Reiki, East London Reiki.
