Doug Jarvis is an artist and curator based in Victoria, BC, on the unceded land of the Lekwungen-speaking peoples of the Songhees Nation and Xʷsepsəm Nation. His individual and collective work explores absurdity, care, non-material entities and technology as a human attribute. Doug is a founding member of the Noxious Sector Art Collective and the avatar performance art group Second Front, which performed at LIVE in 2007. Doug’s projects have been presented at artist-run centres, galleries, museums and festivals across Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia. He is an active member of the Victoria arts community and participates through a variety of non-profit and artist-run centre boards, including as President of the Ministry of Casual Living. He is the Acting Executive Director at Open Space Arts Society and the Administrator for the ProArt Alliance of Greater Victoria. Doug received an MFA in studio from the University of Guelph, ON, and is a sessional instructor in the Visual Arts Department at University of Victoria.
Doug Jarvis
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