Jessica Houston

Jessica Houston’s practice is grounded in long-term research on climate change, deep time, and geographies of resistance in the polar regions. Since 2008, she has worked in sustained collaboration with communities, scientists, and interdisciplinary thinkers—including Rosi Braidotti, Okalik Eegeesiak, Carlo Rovelli, and Anne Michaels—to foreground climate justice and the interdependence of human and more-than-human worlds. Working across photography, painting, objects, and video, she invites reflection on our entangled, posthuman ecological condition. Select solo and group exhibitions include: …no footprints, even. Vanderbilt University Museum of Art, Nashville, TN, USA (2025); Beyond Her Horizons at The Royal Canadian Geographical Society in Ottawa (2024); Territoires sous observation, Museo de Arts de Querétaro, México (2023); Terra Nova, CREA Gallery, Venice, Italy (2022); Ecologies: A Song For Our Planet, Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal, Canada (2021); Dear Future… University of Northern Colorado Gallery, Greely, CO, USA (2020); I Beseech You: Women, Art, Politics and Power, Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA, USA (catalog) (2020); and The Call of Things, The Arktikum Museum - University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland (2019).

Houston has created site-specific works for the New Jersey MOCA, Asbury Park, New Jersey; the Castello di Corigliano, Puglia, Italy; Governors Island, NY, NY; The Albany Airport, Albany, NY and The Lewis H. Latimer House Museum, Flushing, NY. Her works are funded by The Canada Council for the Arts, National Geographic, Parks Canada, and are in the collections of The Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec; Québec National Library and Archives (BAnQ); Bank of Montréal, Toronto; The Canada Council Art Bank; and the Consulate General of Monaco. She has been invited to the Changing Climate Residency at The Santa Fe Art Institute (2023); The Albers Foundation Residency (2021); CAMAC Centre for Art, Science and Technology in France (2009); and the Skagaströnd Residency in Iceland (2009). She teaches at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and has lectured at Columbia University, Parsons University in New York; Concordia University, McGill University, UQÀM and The Montréal Museum of Fine Arts in Montréal and OCAD University in Toronto.