Jenny Smith is a self-taught Canadian artist, writer and sculptor. She was born in Victoria, BC, and grew up in Calgary before returning to the West Coast. 

Though she has created a body of work with traditional mediums, she is more well known for her methods hearkening to cave painting times, a process involving a hunter-gatherer rubric, as she sources materials from places such as construction sites and nature. Considering this process and the symbolism derived from her materials, her work prods existentialism by exploring what we inhabit or perceive to inhabit, and how it shapes our interaction with the world. 

It is the abstraction of inhabiting our perceptions which has led her to take the notion of art not being complete without a viewer further, to include the "viewer" as a contributing artist, while also allowing nature to participate in the work, such as observing the ephemeral self and surrender of human control in rain washing away an entire painting.

2021

Harmony Arts Festival - "Loving Our Planet" Youth Workshop, West Vancouver

2021

“In Your Hands” 7ft sculpture designed to engage community in climate awareness, West Vancouver Waterfront

2021

"What Are You Made Of?" commission for the Squarerigger Pub, West Vancouver

2020

Group Show, Civilian Impressions, Remnants of Conflict Art Exhibit Opening

Coquitlam Heritage Museum

2016 - 2018

Noteworthy commissions including of Canadian celebrities, portrait of Canadian Artist Craig Yeats, portrait of anonymous international dignitary

2016

Solo show, Catmando, Ambleside Bistro

Ambleside, West Vancouver

2015 - 2016

Represented by Craig Yeats Gallery

Dundarave, West Vancouver

2013

Short story and artwork published in H.H., American Literary Magazine

2013

Painting featured on the cover of Room Journal, Canadian Literary Magazine

2013

Review of Governor General’s Award-winning novella Exit, published by numerous Canadian publications including Anvil Press and Room Journal

1999

Winner of Provincial-wide essay contest of the Royal British Columbia Museum regarding Leonardo Da Vinci’s Art

Victoria, BC