NEW VOICES
Jason de Haan
January 16 – March 14, 2026
Artist
Jason de Haan
Curator
Gentiane Bélanger
Overview
Alberta artist Jason de Haan’s conceptual and sculptural practice highlights the diachronic density of nature and the physical world. Using a cross-disciplinary approach that combines sculpture, collage, drawing, photography, video, and text, de Haan explores the archiving of time in planetary materiality and connects this deep time to that of cultural history. Symbolically dense and complex, his works reflect a fascination with mythology, science fiction, geology, and geographical sites imbued with forces at work below the threshold of perception.
Deeply heterogeneous and impossible to classify, Jason de Haan’s work deliberately places itself in the evolutionary flow, interrupting the passage of time with artistic gestures that resonate with romanticism, the sublime, and poetry. De Haan meticulously points to the movement, transformation, resonance, or sparkle of things on such a microscopic scale that our senses are unable to perceive them. For de Haan, our ephemeral position within the epic dialogue of evolving time scales, coupled with natural and supernatural wonders, offers a productive space to reflect on the difficulty of perceiving the invisible and describing regimes of immeasurable distances.
Artist
Jason de Haan (b. 1981) is a multidisciplinary Canadian artist working in installation, sculpture, video, drawing, collage, photography, and bookworks. This includes the exploration of uncertain and unexpected spaces, temporal flux, natural phenomena and systems, transmissions, and open timelines, with a focus upon the points at which the invisible and residual reveal their contingencies.
de Haan received an MFA from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson in 2015. Recent exhibitions have been held at Esker Foundation, Calgary (2017), De Fabriek, Eindhoven (2016); Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton (2016); MASS MoCA, North Adams (2016); Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax (2014); Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto (2014); Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (2014); Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge (2012); and Museo de la Ciudad, Querétaro (2012). His work has been included in group exhibitions at Scrap Metal, Toronto (2014); Bond House Projects, London (2013); Oakville Galleries (2012); Nuit Blanche, Toronto (2011); MOLAF, Bergen (2011); and Kling & Bang Galleri, Reykjavik (2009). In 2012 de Haan was shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award, representing the Canadian Prairies and the North. His work has been reviewed in Canadian Art, Art in America, and Artforum.
