Jennifer Long

Reflecting on the shifting and uncanny experience of parenthood, Long photographs herself and her children over the years. Themes of gender and memory emerge in her depictions of quiet moments and subtle gestures. Poses and expressions change in the journey through childhood to adolescence, and echo through the artist and her two daughters.

Person in yellow sweater holding a large yellow flower over their face, lying on orange fuzzy fabric.
Colorful gumdrop structure on books using toothpicks
Person holding a blue plate in front of them, partial view, with focus on hands and thighs.
Stacked plastic containers on a wooden table against a white background.
A triptych of blurred images showing a person behind frosted glass wearing a yellow top, with numbers 16, 17, and 18 at the bottom of each image respectively.
Triptych of images showing a hand holding a glass, casting shadows against a blue wall; a shadow of a person holding an object like a phone; and decorative items like a heart and paper on the wall.
Hands with clothespins on fingers against a dark background.

  • Untitled from Caesura, 2021

    Untitled from Caesura, 2021

    Untitled from Caesura, 2019

    Untitled from Caesura, 2020

    Research, 2022

    Process images, 2021

    Process images, 2021

    Untitled from Caesura, 2019-21

Jennifer Long is a Canadian artist, curator, and arts administrator. Her artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally at galleries including Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian (FR), Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (CA), and La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse (CA).  Long’s practice has been included in numerous publications, most recently Mothers, Mothering, and Covid-19: Dispatches from a Pandemic (Demeter Press, 2022), BlackFlash Magazine (2021), and Mothers’ Day (Artist Residency In Motherhood, 2020). In support of her artwork, she has received grants from the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, and Canada Council for The Arts.

Through a Feminist lens, Long works with constructed narratives that are inspired by the quiet moments in women’s lives where seemingly nothing (and everything) occurs. She is especially interested in the complex emotions that underlie these mundane points in time. Themes of vulnerability, growth, community, and motherhood are explored within her practice as she examines daily life and her rituals within it.