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

Education

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

Professional Experience

2024–Present Darkroom Facilities Monitor, Gallery 44, Toronto

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

2019–2021 Photo Lab Associate, Rapid Photo, Toronto 

2017–2020 Photo Lab Monitor, OCAD University, Toronto

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

Selected Exhibitions

2025–2026 Wild Waysides: Queer Ecologies and the New Natural. Travelling exhibition from the Queer Up North Artist Residency (Throbbing Rose Collective), 2024. 

    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

2024 FaultLines, Gagné Contemporary Projects, Toronto Ontario

2024 The Body Politic, Campbell River Art Gallery, Campbell River British Columbia

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

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

2019 Amending Gender, The Upstairs at Avondale, Birmingham Alabama

2019 Photoworks Pride Show, San Francisco California

2019 CC01, Tique Art Space, Antwerp Belgium

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

2019 Nest, OCAD University, Toronto Ontario

2018 365, Gallery 44, Toronto Ontario

Publications

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

2019 Radical, Issue Thirteen

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

2019 Queer-Spirit, Issue Two

2019 #EnbyLife, Online Journal

Residencies

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

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 Ontario

Writing

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

Workshops & Artist Talk

2025 Artist Facilitator, Marginalized Majority & The 519, Toronto

2024 Artist Talk, Gagné Contemporary Projects, Toronto

2024 Artist Facilitator, Sherbourne Health, Toronto

2024 Artist Facilitator, Lakeshore Arts, Toronto

2020 Artist Talk, OCAD University, Toronto

Committees & Groups

2024—Present Member, Workman Arts, Toronto

2020—Present  Co-Creator & Community Coordinator, Gender 404, Toronto

2019 OUTREACH Awards Jury Member, Gallery 44, Toronto

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