Partners in Art is proud to support Jenine Marsh’s project from 18 October 2025 to 1 February 2026. Curated by Darryn Doull, this project will be on view at Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery.
Jenine Marsh (b. 1984 Calgary, Canada; lives in Toronto, Canada) uses sculpture and installation to explore themes of agency, mortality and value. Through serialized processes of destruction and transformation, her work cultivates illicit and intimate responses to the shared conditions of end-stage capitalism. Several recent large-scale projects have focused on the form of public fountains, approaching them materially and conceptually as sites of social gathering, rallying, and wish-making. The universal practice of throwing coins into fountains enacts an alternative economy, which, through the wish, reaches for divergent futures. In these provisional floorworks, the iconoclastic materiality of post-capitalist desire is animated through the subtly utopic agencies of sculptural practice.
Marsh’s work has been exhibited widely in galleries and institutions such as the Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art (2025); the Goldfarb Art Gallery, Toronto (2025); Ensemble, New York (2024); Prairie, Chicago (2024); Ashley, Berlin (2024); the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver (2024); Gianni Manhattan, Vienna (2023); Union Pacific, London (2023); Cooper Cole, Toronto (2023); Joe Project, Montreal (2023); Night Gallery, Los Angeles (2022); Essex Flowers, New York (2020); Franz Kaka, Toronto (2019); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2019), OSL Contemporary, Oslo (2019); Entrée Gallery, Bergen (2018), and Lulu, Mexico City (2015).
Image credits
utopia, 2023, Concrete, wood, rigid foam, steel, plastic vessels, plastic model figurines, pennies, newspaper clippings, hardware. 427 x 427 x 36 cm. Exhibition: no order, two-person exhibition with Malcolm McCormick, Joe Project, Montreal CA Photo credit: Alberto Porro
How to Fulfill a Wish (bronze), 2023 (detail) Cast bronze, coins, newspaper clippings, epoxy clay, powdered pigment, nails, acrylic varnish, polyethylene tarp, polymer-based mortar, rigid foam. Each 172 x 172 x 36 cm. Exhibition: Aporia: Notes to a Medium, curated by Melanie O’Brien, Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, Vancouver CA, 2024. Photo credit: Rachel Topham Photography Ltd.
Wellspring, 2023, Altered public space, with epoxy clay, powdered pigment, mixed-currency coins, wire, flowers, and synthetic rubber. Exhibition: commission for Breaking Ground, curated by Kari Cwynar, Nuit Blanche, Toronto CA Photo credit: IA Documentation.
Wellspring, 2023 (detail), Altered public space, with epoxy clay, powdered pigment, mixed-currency coins, wire, flowers, and synthetic rubber. Exhibition: commission for Breaking Ground, curated by Kari Cwynar, Nuit Blanche, Toronto CA. Photo credit: IA Documentation
Present Tense, 2024 (detail), Concrete, wood, expanded foam, steel, coins, newspapers, wallpaper paste, flowers, synthetic rubber, wire, chain. Floor work: 305 x 305 x 10 cm. Hanging work: 102 x 26 x 26 cm. Exhibition: Present Tense, Prairie, Chicago USA, 2024. Photo credit: Prairie, Chicago USA.
Microcosm, 2025 (installation view), Exhibition: Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, Buffalo NY USA. Photo credit: BICA.
