About the Artist
who I am
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Jennifer Coghill is a Toronto/T’Karonto-based mixed-media fiber and textile artist and a graduate of the Ontario College of Art (AOCA) in graphic design. She looks for beauty in the everyday and the overlooked, while calling attention to the waste we create.
Coghill's recent body of work, the Coffee Culture series, and her installation Consumed!, started with the creation of Café Curtains for the 2023 DesignTO Festival. She decided to use the waste materials from coffee and tea preparation, choosing these unexpected substrates for their ability to capture the fleeting imprints of daily rituals, moments in time, and the comfort of home. Each used coffee filter, tea bag, coffee package, or burlap sack holds its own story, but when stitched together, they weave a larger narrative about waste, beauty, time, value, and reuse.
In creating beauty and function from detritus, Coghill challenges traditional narratives and asks us to think about our approach to consumption and waste.
Exhibitions
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Solo Shows
2025
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Consumed!, Design TO Festival: exhibition/installation, Evergreen Brick Works, Toronto, Ontario
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Small Works, The Gallery Wall at Might and Main Coffee, Toronto, Ontario
2024
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Coffee Culture, Design TO Festival: window installation, Hamers Coffee, Toronto, Ontario
2023
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Café Curtains, World of Threads Festival, Oakville, Ontario
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Café Curtains, Design TO Festival: window installation, Hamers Coffee Toronto, Ontario
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Juried Group Shows
2025
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Pattern, Gladstone House, Toronto, Ontario
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A la Carte, Ontario Legislative Building, Toronto, Ontario
2024
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FACE/WASTE, Steelcase Art Projects, Markham, Ontario
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Ritual, virtual (online) gallery, Studio Art Quilt Associates, saqa.com
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Delights*, 2024 Grand National Fibre Art Exhibition, Kootenay Gallery of Art, Castlegar, B.C.
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Fierce Planets*, Studio Art Quilt Associates, LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
2023
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2023 Emerging Artists Show, Ontario Society of Artists, Baird Gallery Toronto, Ontario
2022
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Textile Impressionism, virtual (online) gallery, Studio Art Quilt Associates, saqa.com
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*Traveling Exhibitions Schedule
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Delights, 2024 Grand National Fibre Art Exhibition
Kootenay Gallery of Art, Castlegar, BC, Jun 8 - Jul 27, 2024
United Contemporary, Pilot Mound, MT, Aug 9 - Sep 25, 2024
Woodstock Art Gallery, Woodstock, ON, Oct 12 - Jan 25, 2025
St. John's Arts Centre, St. John, NB, Mar 14 - Apr 25, 2025
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Fierce Planets, Studio Art Quilt Associates
LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, LA, Apr 18 - Sep 8, 2024
New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA, Jan 1 - May 10, 2025
Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, FL, Jun 13 - Aug 25, 2025
Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, FL, Sep 25 - Jan 2, 2026
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Awards
2024
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Judge's Choice Award for Meadowland at Delights, 2023 Grand National Fibre Art Exhibition
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Residency
2025
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Alchemy Artist Residency, Gibraltor Point Arts Centre, Toronto, ON
Publications​
2024
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Uppercase Magazine, Issue 62, Coffee Culture series is featured in the "Snippets" section