Ebony Jansen

Ebony Jansen
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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My latest work dives into storytelling and personal history. It’s all about playing, healing, and finding connections during lonely times. My work touches on heartbreak and exploring a city on your own. Through journaling and visual narratives, I combine emotions and memories to create something deeply personal and relatable: inviting us to think about how we connect to place through memory.

BIO

Ebony Jansen earned a BA in Art and Art History from Sheridan College and the University of Toronto, Mississauga. She works in collage, photography, and print media, focusing on finding humour and beauty in the simple moments of everyday life. Jansen’s work has been exhibited at venues such as the Gladstone Hotel’s Art Bar, Black Cat Artspace, Project Gallery, Hart House’s Arbor Room, and Blackwood Gallery. Most recently, her work was featured in the international exhibition, “Collagism: A Survey of Contemporary Collage”, at the Museum Strathroy-Caradoc in Strathroy, Ontario. After a year-long journey through the National Parks of Canada and the US, Jansen now lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she also daylights as a brewer. She would gladly share a glass of beer to discuss brewing science, horoscopes, social politics, Marxism, art theory, feminism, accessibility, and equality.

Jansen’s latest body of work explores storytelling and personal history through the lens of the pandemic. Created as a means of play, therapy, and a cure for loneliness, this series delves into themes of heartbreak and the experience of rediscovering a city in solitude. Using journaling and visual narratives, Jansen’s pieces weave together fragments of memory, emotion, and the urban landscape to create an intimate portrait of resilience and self-discovery. This exhibition invites viewers to reflect on their own connections to place, memory, and healing during transformative times.

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