Jan Peacock
Jan Peacock exhibits video and installation work throughout Canada and internationally. She is best known for her work with language, landscape and performance elements in essay-shaped constructions.
Her work is held in public and private collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Fukui Museum in Japan and the Ludwig Museum in Köln. Recently, her work has been featured at the Festival International du Film sur l’Art and at TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto. She has won awards at the Atlantic Film & Video Festival, the Chicago International Film & Video Festival, and the Atlanta Film & Video Festival. She is a recipient of the Bell Canada Award and the Canada Council Medal for her contribution to the field of video, and she is a Governor General’s Award laureate in Visual and Media Arts.
Jan Peacock lives in Halifax, where she teaches interdisciplinary studio courses at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD University), and directs the MFA Program.
Artist Code: 306
Videography
2012, 08:00 minutes, colour, Silent
2009, 06:00 minutes, colour
Bystander (Performance for scanner, words, and pearls)
2009, 02:04 minutes, colour, Silent
Jan Peacock: A Video Retrospective
2009, 112:00 minutes, colour, English
2008, 05:48 minutes, colour, silent
2003, 05:48 minutes, colour, Silent
1995, 05:00 minutes, colour, English/French
1993, 15:37 minutes, colour, English/French
1990, 14:15 minutes, English
1987, 08:30 minutes, English
(Bliss) (Dread) The Road Rises to Meet You
1987, 06:30 minutes, colour
1985, 08:35 minutes, colour, English/French/Korean
1984, 04:52 minutes, colour, English/Spanish
1983, 02:57 minutes, colour
1981, 18:40 minutes, colour
1980, 16:20 minutes, colour
1978, 21:58 minutes, colour
1977, 15:00 minutes, colour, English
Critical Writing
by . The Globe and Mail, Mar. 6, 2002.
by . Arts Atlantic, Fall 2002, v. 19, no. 73 / 4.
by . C Magazine, Winter 2000, no. 67/68.
Toronto: Absolute Choice Curatorial Collective, 1999.
by and . Trade Initiative, 1998. Vancouver: Satellite Video Exchange Society, 1998.
by and . David Askevold: Cultural Geographies, 1998. Charlettetown: Confederation Centre Art Gallery and Museum, 1998.
by . Contemporary Canadian Artists, 1997. Toronto: Gale Canada, 1997.
by . Now, Nov. 16, 1995, v. 15, no. 11.
by . Halifax: Dalhousie Art Gallery, 1994.
by . Halifax: Dalhousie Art Gallery, 1994.
by . Halifax Chronicle Herald, July 1993.
by . Cinema Canada, Sept. 1988, no. 155.
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by . Fuse, Summer 1985, v. 9, no. 1 & 2.
by . Excalibur, Nov. 1983, v. 18, no. 10.