Jen Aitken at Site Service

Toronto-based artist Jen Aitken will work and play in the gallery space at Nine, spending time with the site of the installation and engaging in conversations with critics, curators, and peer artists. The At Service Residency program will support the development of work toward her solo exhibition, opening January 9, 2026.

About the artist:
Jen Aitken is based in Toronto, Canada. She makes sculptures that combine perceptual ambiguity with structural clarity. She uses common industrial materials to create unidentifiable forms about intimacy, syntax, and bodily space. Aitken presented her first institutional solo show at The Power Plant, Toronto in 2023, titled The Same Thing Looks Different, which was accompanied by an exhibition catalogue. Her first large-scale public sculpture was installed at the new headquarters of the National Bank of Canada, Montreal, in 2023. She was commissioned by the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, to create a site-specific installation for its 2020 Women to Watch exhibition. Aitken is represented by Trépanier Baer gallery in Calgary, Alberta, and her work is in public collections across Canada, including Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.