Draft:Jenine Marsh

Jenine Marsh (born 1984). is a Canadian artist born in Calgary, Alberta. She is primarily known for her sculptural arrangements and installations, where she uses a broad variety of materials including metal casting and found objects.

Career
Marsh has lived and practiced in Toronto, Ontario for the past decade. Her work explores themes of agency, morality, and value in the conditions of late capitalism.

Marsh holds a BFA from the Alberta University of the Arts and an MFA from the University of Guelph.

Marsh has served as an artist in residence in cities all around the world, including Banff, Alberta; Berlin, Mexico City, Johnson, Vermont; and Vilnius, Lithuania.

Exhibitions
Marsh’s work has been exhibited in a number of Canadian art galleries, including Cooper Cole and Franz Kaka in Toronto, Centre CLARK and Vie d’ange in Montreal, and Griffin Art Projects and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery in Vancouver. She has also exhibited in a number of international art galleries, including Night Gallery in Los Angeles, Essex Flowers in New York, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Gianni Manhattan in Vienna, OSL Contemporary in Oslo, Entrée Gallery in Idaho, and Lulu in Mexico City.

Artwork
Marsh’s installation The dirt under my nails (2019) was featured in a solo exhibition at Centre CLARK (October 2019 – November 2019). The large-scale work utilizes a combination of train-pressed coins, plaster, powdered pigment, second-hand purses, flower bulbs, bent steel, concrete, and sand.

Her floral sculptural work Enclosed (2) was exhibited in a group exhibition at the Night Gallery titled SHRUBS (January 2022 – February 2022) alongside the works of other notable artists including Hayley Barker, Lois Dodd, Yashua Klos, and Claire Tabouret

Marsh’s solo exhibition at the Cooper Cole Gallery (May 2023 – July 2023) featured a number of the artist’s notable works, including ''How to Fulfill a Wish (gold), How to Fulfill a Wish (silver), How to Fulfill a Wish (bronze), Optimism, and Untitled (coins and nails). '' These works were also featured in a group exhibition at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (January 2024 – April 2024).