Artist Bio

Jaye Benoit is an interdisciplinary visual artist working in drawing, installation, sculpture, and media practices who lives and works on the ancestral and unceded territories of Yaqan Nukiy within the Ktunaxa Nation, knows as Creston, BC. She is currently completing the low-residency Master of Fine Arts Program at Emily Carr University of Art + Design (Fall 2024) and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Alberta. She boasts the development of a traditional drawing and painting art education program and has been involved in artistic instruction, curriculum development, and mentorship for all ages and abilities over the last 12 years. Jaye also has a comprehensive arts programming background and has been involved the development of many community-based artistic initiatives. Jaye firmly believes in the value and ability of art to foster deep personal and societal growth, and to connect us all to each other.

Her art practice is emergent, intuitive, and embodied, as she investigates connections to the intangible world through the corporeal body, revealing a universal interconnectedness between bodies that exists just beyond ordinary sight and a flexibility between material and immaterial worlds.