Solo Exhibitions
2023 Blue as the insides, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Canada
Group Exhibitions
2024 Forthcoming, Ukutula: Our Timeless Journeys, Agnes Etherington with Museum London, Ontario, Canada
Forthcoming, GardenShip and State, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, Ontario, Canada Diasporic Bodies, Cohen Commons, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
2023 of many worlds in this world, Artlab, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
2022 From Remote Stars: Buckminster Fuller, London & Speculative Futures, Museum London, Ontario, Canada After Care, Mitchell Art Gallery, MacEwan University, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
2021 GardenShip, Museum London, Ontario, Canada Léuli Eshrāghi, Jessica Karuhanga:Projections, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Undeliverable, Robert McLaughlin Gallery and Tangled Art + Disability, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Collective Offerings, Art Gallery of Guelph, Ontario, Canada Sensing, Feeling, Being, Glory Hole Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Aural Alterities, SpokenWeb and CURRENT, Canada
2020 present(s), xviix, London, United Kingdom Luminocity, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada U feel me? The Bows, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Emotional Landscapes, Varley Art Gallery of Markham, Ontario, Canada
2019 Undercurrents, The Bentway, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Ground, Sheridan Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Relational Revolutions, Queer Arts Festival, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2018 I continue to shape, the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Canada Nuit Blanche, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada Inscapes, Varley Art Gallery of Markham, Canada Sunshine Eaters, Onsite Gallery, OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Embodiment, Museum London, Ontario, Canada
2017 all our days are full of breath: a record of momentum, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada WARNING! Mind the Gap, OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2016 Pixelation, OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2015 Truth be Told, Younger Than Beyoncé Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 25: Multiples Toward a Past and Future, Deluge Contemporary, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
2014 It wasn’t Supposed to be this way, Videofag, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Deciding Centre, NIA Centre for the Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Solo Performances
2024 Forthcoming, 13th 7A*11D International Performance Festival, Toronto, Canada Forthcoming, ground and cover me, Warehouse9, Copenhagen, Denmark
2023 ground and cover me, Live Biennale, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ground and cover me, FAAS7, Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada ground and cover me, Sarajevski Otvoreni Centar, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina ground and cover me, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada ground and cover me, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
2022 ground and cover me, Pallas Projects, Dublin, Ireland
2020 #Carefree, WNDX Festival of Moving Image, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
2019 #Carefree, Long Winter, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2018 #Carefree, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2017 ground and cover me, Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada through a brass channel, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada ground and cover me, OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2016 #Carefree, ASSEMBLÉE, Studio 303, Montréal, Quebec, Canada #Carefree, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada #Carefree, Trinity Square Video, Big on Bloor Festival, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Boom Aura, DOORED 24, DoubleDouble Land, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Shade Shadow Spectre, Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario, Canada A Still Cling To Fading Blossoms, OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2015 A Still Cling To Fading Blossoms, Electric Eclectics, Meaford, Ontario, Canada
2014 Black Dust and Sky Lickers, The Drake Hotel, Toronto, Ontario, Canada The trip, and the fall, and the lost heap of longing, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto
2013 Reveler’s Revolt Reframed, OCAD U Student Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2012 Solo Performance, The Pop-up Theatre Shop, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2011 Bush Brush, The Ministry of Casual Living, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Curatorial Projects
2018 Ineffable Blaze (Trinity Square Video, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Collections
2023 Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada 2022 National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, United States 2021 Museum London, Ontario, Canada
Grants
2021 Canada Council for the Arts, Explore and Create: Concept to Realization Toronto Arts Council, Visual Arts Program: Level Two Ontario Arts Council, Visual Arts Creation Projects: Mid-career
2017 Toronto Arts Council, Media Artists Program: Level One
2016 Ontario Arts Council, Visual Arts: Emerging Grant Toronto Arts Council, Emerging Visual Artist Grant
2015 Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant
2014 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance
Lectures and Symposia
2024 Forthcoming, Lecture: Art Now Speaker’s Series (University of Lethbridge, Canada) Forthcoming, Lecture: Artist Talk (Warehouse9, Copenhagen, Denmark) Lecture: Artist Talk, Dr. Andrea Fatona’s class (OCAD University, Toronto, Canada)
2023 Lecture: Artist Talk (Kampus Univerziteta u Sarajevu, Bosnia and Herzegovina) Conversation: Jessica Karuhanga and Sheri Nault, Expanding Horizons Conference (Western University, London, Canada) Panel: Women and Colonization, Confluences Conference (Museum London, Canada) Panel: Black Art / Black Canada (Royal Ontario Museum, Canada Lecture: Artist Talk (Queer City Cinema and Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada) Lecture: Artist Talk (Queer City Cinema and Department of Visual Arts, Western University, London, Canada)
2022 Lecture: Artist Talk (Pallas Art Projects, Dublin, Ireland)
2021 Lecture: Talk & Workshop (Université de Yaoundé I, Cameroon) Panel: Projections Artist Talk with Jessica Karuhanga and Léuli Eshrāghi (Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Canada) Conversation: Jessica Karuhanga and Nehal El-Hadi (Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, Canada)
2020 Lecture: Luminocity Artist Talk (Kamloops, Canada)
2019 Panel: Mystique Afrique (Africa Salon, United Kingdom) Panel: TIFF Transforms: International Women’s Day (TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto, Canada)
2018 Conversation: The Unknown and Unknowable: Jessica Karuhanga and Nehal El-Hadi (Trinity Square Video, Toronto, Canada) Panel: Been Here So Long (The Art Gallery of Peterborough, Canada) Lecture: Western University's ART NOW Series (Museum London, Canada)
2017 Panel: Remembrance and Difference (Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada) Panel: Tender Skeletons (Art Museum at University of Toronto, Canada) Panel: Working with Dancers in Contemporary Art Space (Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, Canada) Moderator: The Un-Othered Body, curated by Esmaa Mohamoud (OCAD University, Toronto, Canada) Panel: Conversations on FORCE, hosted by C Magazine (Gallery TPW, Toronto, Canada)
2016 Keynote: Archives Matter: Queer, Feminist & Decolonialism (Goldsmiths, London, United Kingdom)
2015 Panel: In Conversation moderated by Ariella Starkman (Soho House, Toronto, Canada) Lecture: Worn Dialogues: Gallery Conversations (Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada) Panel: Exploring Black Feminine Identity (The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada) Panel: Black Portraitures (Harvard University and Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, Florence, Italy) Panel: Critical Ethnic Studies Conference (York University, Toronto, Canada) Lecture: Sunday Scene (The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada) Lecture: Basquiat Idea Bar (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada)
2014 Panel: Emerging Arts Practices, CARFAC National Annual Conference (Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, Canada) Panel: What Happens After Midnight, FADO Performance Art (Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, Canada)
Teaching Experience
2022 - Now Assistant Professor, Studio Art, Department of Visual Arts, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
2020 - 2022 Part-time Lecturer, New Media Thesis Project, Toronto Metropolitan University, Ontario, Canada Part-time Lecturer, Technology, Identity & Creativity, Toronto Metropolitan University, Ontario, Canada
2016 - 2020 Sessional Professor, Performance Art, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada Sessional Professor, Criticism and Curatorial Studios, OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Boards and Committees
2017 - 2020 Board of Directors, Gallery TPW, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Juries
2023 Visual Arts Creation Projects Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2019 Animating Toronto Parks Grant, Toronto Arts Council
2017 Visual Arts Creation Projects Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2016 Level One: Emerging Artists Grant, Toronto Arts Council
Publications
2021 Conversation, Transmissions 4: American Artist, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
2019 Essay, Guillaume Adjutor Provost Monograph, Fonderie Darling, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2018 Essay, FrameWork 5/18: Oliver Husain, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2017 Feature, Kapwani Kiwanga, BlackFlash Magazine
2016 Review, Simone Leigh, New Museum, New York, New York, C Magazine Feature, Artefact: Francisco-Fernando Granados, C Magazine
Columns, Features, Interviews and Reviews
2023 Review, ground and cover me - Jessica Karuhanga, C Magazine Interview, Jessica Karuhanga navigates space through performance, Remai Modern Currents
2022 Feature, Say Hello to Fall on CBC: There's plenty to keep you entertained, CBC Arts Feature, From Bros to Bowie, 10 reasons this will be the queerest TIFF ever, CBC Arts Feature, Jessica Karuhanga, "ground and cover me," Institutional Model Feature, CBC Unveils 2022-23 Programming Slate…, CBC Media Interview, Interview with Jessica Karuhanga, Dublin Art Life Feature, Queer City Cinema presents Qualeidoscope: Queer Film and Performance on tour, Gay Community News
2021 Feature, Listening Feels, by jamilah malika abu-bakare, Canadian Art Magazine Interview, Featured Artist: Jesica Karuhanga, xviix Interview, Breakaway, CBC Radio
2020 Feature, Winnipeg's WNDX Festival of Moving Image Details 2020 Edition, Exclaim! Feature, Artist Spotlight, Art Gallery of Ontario
2019 Review, Queer Arts Festival's show Relational rEvolutions questions the future, by Alexander Varty, The Georgia Straight Feature, the new new york, i-D
2018 Feature, Six Toronto artists pushing their city into a more progressive future, by Ashleigh Kane, DAZED Feature, 5 best bets at Nuit Blanche, by Murray Whyte, Toronto Star Column, McMichael gallery showcases archive of Canadian hip-hop culture, by Chris Hampton, The Globe and Mail Review, Exhibits prob identity and vices, by Joe Belanger, The London Free Press Review, Seeds of discontent at OCAD nature-derived art show, by Murray Whyte, Toronto Star Review, The Sunshine Eaters, by Liz Ikirko, PUBLIC Review, The Sunshine Eaters, by Anna Kovler, Border Crossings
2017 Feature, 10 Artists Who Are Taking Care, by Amber Berson, Canadian Art Magazine Review, all our days are full of breath: a record of momentum, by Coman Poon, C Magazine Feature, Les affiches de PosterVirus: vues de la rue, by Adam Barbu, esse magazine
2016 Feature, Art and HIV: This powerful public poster series is challenging how we look at the virus, by Theodore Kerr, CBC Arts Column, Dead Tired Of Being So Bloody Positive: PosterVirus Reflects AIDS Activism Now, by Emily Colucci, filthy dreams Interview, A Conversation with Jessica Karuhanga, by Luther Konadu, Public Parking Interview, A Conversation with Jessica Karuhanga, by Heather-Campos Castillo, Heart-Beats Column, PosterVirus 2016, Visual Aids
Education
2010 BFA Honors Specialization in Studio, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada 2012 MFA, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada