Jackson Bailey | jacksonbailey.ca | jacksonbailey396@gmail.com

Education

2016–2020 OCAD University, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography

Professional Experience

2025–Present Program Assistant, PhotoMagic 44, Gallery 44, Toronto ON

2024–Present Darkroom Facilities Monitor, Gallery 44, Toronto ON

2024–Present Artist Instructor, Darkroom Club, Gallery 44, Toronto ON

2019–2021 Photo Lab Associate, Rapid Photo, Toronto ON

2017–2020 Photo Lab Monitor, OCAD University, Toronto ON

2016-2020 Teaching Assistant, Darkroom Club, Gallery 44, Toronto ON

2018–2019 Education & Community Outreach Intern, Gallery 44, Toronto ON

Selected Exhibitions

2025–2026 Wild Waysides: Queer Ecologies and the New Natural, Travelling exhibition from the Queer Up North Artist Residency (Throbbing Rose Collective)

    White Water Gallery, North Bay ON, 2025

    Novah Gallery, North Bay ON, 2025

    Temiskaming Art Gallery, New Liskard ON, 2025

    RedHead Gallery, Toronto ON, 2025

    Timmins Museum: National Exhibition Centre, Timmins ON, 2026

2025 Intersections: Threads of Tradition and Identity, Coverdale Common, Etobicoke ON

2024 FaultLines, Gagné Contemporary Projects, Toronto ON

2024 The Body Politic, Campbell River Art Gallery, Campbell River BC

2020 Sorry for your loss, The Projection Project, Calgary AB

2019 Gender Unbound Festival, Blue Genie Art Bazaar, Austin TX

2019  Amending Gender, The Upstairs at Avondale, Birmingham AL

2019  Photoworks Pride Show, San Francisco CA

2019  CC01, Tique Art Space, Antwerp Belgium

2019  A Thousand Words, Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, Ada Slaight Gallery, Toronto ON

2019  Nest, OCAD University, Toronto ON

2018  365, Gallery 44, Toronto ON

Publications

2019 Art/iculation Magazine, Queer and Now Issue 2019 Radical, Issue Thirteen

2019 Milk Teeth Zine, Volume 3: A Collection of Love and Loss

2019 Radical, Issue Thirteen

2019 Not Your Mother’s Breast Milk, Online

2019 Postscript Magazine, Online

2019 Queer-Spirit, Issue Two

2019 Honey & Lime, Literary Magazine, Issue Three

2019 #EnbyLife, Online Journal

Residencies

2024 Queer Up North Artist Residency, The Throbbing Rose Collective and White Bear Art Residencies, Temagami ON

2020 Global Experience Project with Zanele Muholi, OCAD University (Cancelled due to COVID-19)

Grants

2025 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance for FaultLines exhibition at Gagne Contemporary Projects, Toronto ON

Writing

2019–2020 Navigating Transgender Representation in Contemporary Lens-based Art, Co-author with Samuel Gratton, Essay

Workshops & Artist Talk

2025 Artist Facilitator, Recurring, George Chuvalo Neighbourhood Centre, Toronto ON

2025 Artist Facilitator, Marginalized Majority & The 519, Toronto ON

2024 Artist Talk, Gagné Contemporary Projects, Toronto ON

2024 Artist Facilitator, Sherbourne Health, Toronto ON

2024 Artist Facilitator, Lakeshore Arts, Toronto ON

2020 Artist Talk, OCAD University, Toronto ON

Committees & Groups

2024—Present Member, Workman Arts, Toronto ON

2020—Present  Founder & Creative Director, Gender 404, Toronto ON

2019 OUTREACH Awards Jury Member, Gallery 44, Toronto ON

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