Biography

Jane Forrest (b. 2005) is an artist and curator based between New York and Toronto. She is pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, attended the 2026 Yale Norfolk School of Art program, and is a recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Artist Grant. Through labor-intensive, repetitive processes, her practice considers labor as a form of endurance and devotion. Working across ceramics, painting, drawing, and sculpture, she examines how memory is held within the home through the accumulation of fragments, touch, and pressure. Her work has been exhibited at the Orillia Museum of Art & History, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, and the Royal Ontario Museum. In 2025, she presented her solo exhibition Gentle Enough to Hold at Gagné Contemporary.