Jen MacIntyre (she/her) grew up in Northern Ontario, has lived in upstate New York, New Mexico, as well as in Vermont. Since 2006 she has called Tiohtià:ke / Montreal, Quebec home. She holds a BFA in Art and Film History as well as a degree in Photography from Concordia University. She was the co-creator and co-curator of the Mile-End Galerie Monastiraki. Jen worked for several years as the Visual Arts Curator for the Osheaga festival, and as a docent at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Her lens-based practice includes video installation work, nature-based photography, as well as portraiture. She works in both digital and film formats, and is passionate about printing her own images, with great care given to materials.
Jen’s recent projects include The Unconditional Project (2020), a series of portraits of people and the animal friends that sustained them through the pandemic. Meditations on Ice (2021) is a macro digital exploration of the abstract forms produced by light on natural ice formations. Children in Homemade Costumes (2021 to present) is an ongoing portrait series in large format film of children in homemade costumes set against the backdrop of Montreal’s alleys. Confluence: Love and Loss (2022) is a project that explores grief and hope through images made in the desert of Argentina. Jen participated in the exhibition Avant Que Tout Ne Disparaisse (2022) at the Maison de la Culture Janine-Sutto in Montreal, and had their first solo exhibition Recent Works at the Vermont Center for Photography in 2025.
Jen’s work has been featured in in Deluge Journal: Summer Issue, and in 2024 her photograph Headless won the director’s award as part of the exhibition Portraits: Self and Other at Photo Place Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont. She also travelled to Arizona to study and create new work with astrophotography master Sean Parker, adding a new dimension to her practice. This was followed by a self-directed residency at the Vermont Centre for Photography in Brattleboro, Vermont.
While Jen often uses traditional approaches to landscape or portraiture, she seeks to understand and push the boundaries of her medium and subject matter. From macro photography of ice, views of the Milky Way, full-spectrum images of trees, or underwater portraiture, her work is concerned with the threads that connect us to each other and to our extraordinary and fragile planet.
Studio of Jen MacIntyre
Montreal, QC
jenmacintyre.info@gmail.com
Jen MacIntyre is a lens-based artist living in Tiohtià:ke/ Montreal with a fine art and commercial photography practice. Please inquire about exhibitions, commissions, portraiture, licensing, or sales of existing work.