Jeremy Laing makes objects, spaces and situations of embodiment. Utilizing material as a conduit for mimesis, draping fabrics relax like bodies, wrapped yarns enflesh ceramic “bones”, and textures become affective mirrors. These material tendencies, objects of strange pleasure, and vernacular structures establish a visceral thing-to-thing-to-body interaction, and with this, a relation to phenomenalism in the objects’ desire to be sensed; touched, petted, sniffed, polished, or listened to.  With bits of humour folded into the seriousness of articulating the sensations and complexities of being-in-the-world, Jeremy’s work upholds a gentleness that we wish for and from each other, and ourselves. It is within these concepts of care that the felt qualities of their work can be appreciated within the sacred context of the transitional potential of the self; or rather, the acts, gestures, and rituals of simultaneously wrapping and unravelling, becoming and undoing.
 

Born in Peterborough

BAA, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto

MVS (studio), University of Toronto, Toronto

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Stockroom, Art Gallery of Burlington, Burlington

Mirror-vase.jpg, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto

“New Work", Wil Aballe Art Projects, Vancouver

Virginia’s Room, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto (in collaboration with the Estate of Will Munro)

2003                

Virginia Puff-Paint, Zsa Zsa Gallery, Toronto


Selected Group Exhibitions

50/50 Selected Editions, Art Metropole, Toronto

Piecework, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa

Canadian Modern, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Master of Visual Studies Graduate Exhibition, University of Toronto Art Museum, Toronto

The Aleatory Object, University of Toronto Art Museum, Toronto

Performance Clash, Toronto Dance Theatre, Toronto

A Rhythm, Not A Plot, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Toronto

Queer Dialogues, Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell, Iowa   

The World According to GARP, Franz Kaka, Toronto

Coat of Many Colours, The Loon, Toronto

Chroma Lives, 21 Avenue Road, Toronto

The Politics of Fashion, Design Exchange, Toronto

This Is Not A Toy, Design Exchange, Toronto

History, Glamour, Magic, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto

Sinbad and the Rented World, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto

Toronto Exchange Club, Parlour Projects, Brooklyn

 Explosion LTTR, Art In General, New York

 Sorry for the Inconvenience, Junction Arts Festival, Toronto

 
Selected Screenings 

Queer Cinema from the Collection, Yesterday and Today, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Multiplicity of Desires, Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Holland

53rd International Short Film Festival, Kinomuseum, Oberhausen, Germany

Ocularis, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool