Jessica Eaton

Jessica Eaton (born 1977) is a Canadian photographer living in Montreal, Quebec.

Life Eaton was born in 1977 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and she received a BFA in photography from the Emily Carr Institute.

After moving from Vancouver to Toronto and then to Montreal, Eaton produced a career changing series of photos, "Cubes for Albers and LeWitt", for a show sponsored by Red Bull. In some works she shoots only grey cubes and uses different color filters over the lens to expose the film.

Her photographs have appeared in publications such as Hunter and Cook, BlackFlash, Pyramid Power and Lay Flat 02: Meta. One of her photographs was chosen for the cover of the March 2011 issue of ARTnews. Her work has been included in a number of group and solo exhibitions in Canada and the United States, as well as in South Korea, Amsterdam, and London.

Awards In 2011, Eaton received the Bright Spark Award from the Magenta Foundation. She was awarded the prize for photography at the Hyères International Festival of Fashion and Photography in 2012. In 2019, Eaton was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of photography.

Collections Eaton's work is included in the permanent collections of: Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal National Gallery of Canada