03/23/2026
Jelica Jovin - short bio and artist statement
Jelica Jovin is a Canadian visual artist working across mixed media, photography, and video work. Her practice is grounded in an exploration of memory, transformation, and the shifting meanings of everyday materials and images. Through processes of layering, fragmentation, and recontextualization, she constructs works that reflect on personal and collective histories.
Jovin has exhibited in a number of public galleries and institutions, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, the MacLaren Art Centre, the Orillia Museum of Art and History, Station Gallery, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Artscape Wychwood Barns, Gallery 1313, and Arts Etobicoke, as well as through online programming with the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Her work has been supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council, and she continues to develop projects that move between photographic and object-based forms, often blurring the boundaries between image and material presence.
Artist Statement
Jovin’s practice is centered on transformation as both a visual and conceptual strategy. Working with existing materials and images, she constructs compositions that emphasize tension between permanence and fragility, presence and absence. Her process is intuitive and accumulative, allowing meaning to emerge through repetition, juxtaposition, and subtle shifts in form.
Rather than presenting fixed narratives, her work opens space for ambiguity, where fragments suggest incomplete stories and invite multiple readings. In this way, Jovin approaches image-making as a form of quiet reconstruction—an attempt to hold onto what is transient, while acknowledging the instability of memory and perception.
