Jan Peacock
Jan Peacock is a Canadian video/installation artist, based in Halifax. She teaches at NSCAD University.
Peacock has completed over twenty video works and installations and has exhibited widely throughout Canada, as well as in France, Holland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Her published texts include “presence” in Point and Shoot: Performance et photographie (eds. Michèle Thériault and France Choinière, Montreal: Editions Dazibao, 2005), “Ready Access” in Public, No 25: Experimentalism (Toronto: Public Access, 2002), “Move This” and “4/14/99” (with Paula Levine) in LUX: A Decade of Artists’ Film and Video, ed. Steve Reinke and Tom Taylor (Toronto: YYZ Books, 1998), “(in)Script” and “SiRENSONG” in By the Skin of Their Tongues: Artists’ Video Scripts, ed. Nelson Henricks and Steve Reinke (Toronto: YYZ Books, 1996), and Corpus Loquendi (Body for Speaking): Body-Centred Video in Halifax 1972- 1982 (Halifax: Dalhousie Art Gallery, 1994). Her work is found in international public and private collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Ludwig Museum in Cologne.
She has received several Canada Council grants, and has won awards at the Atlantic Film & Video Festival, the Chicago International Film & Video Festival, and the Atlanta Film & Video Festival. She is a recipient of the Bell Canada Award and the Canada Council Medal for her contribution to the field of video.