TERRENCE JON
  • :art:
    • ::installation::
    • :cULTUREgLU::BARCELONA:
    • ::sculpture::
    • :video:performance:
    • :poetry:vocals:
  • current:
  • Cenote Series
  • ::contact::
  • :CV:
  • cULTUREgLU songs
  • TQM
  • NEVER GIVE UP!
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​Canadian born artist, Terrence Jon, earned his Bachelor of Arts Degree at the University of Western Ontario in London, launching his art career in Toronto afterwards.

He moves freely within his multidisciplinary practice, creating paintings, photography, poetry, installations & sculptures—playing with light translucency, shadow, texture-- poetically experimenting with unconventional mediums often constructed out of indigenous materials, refashioning collected objects into modern day totems that dually speak both to nature revealed in the human condition and the environment.

He delves into everyday life for inspiration illuminating contemporary culture in distinctly original fashion, recreating famous historical monuments and icons by constructing mixed media paintings along side hybrid social sculptures, reformed out of pre-existing objects, gathering indigenous materials that resonate the environment in which they are made. He often performs (vocally) in front of his paintings and sculptures to inaugurate them.

Selected for numerous international exhibitions and residencies in galleries, public art venues, foundations, concert halls and museums in Canada, Europe and Mexico. He divides his time between his studios in Merida Mexico & Oshawa, Canada


Selections/Exhibitions:

Paris Salon, 2N Azul painting selected for prestigious exhibition 2003

Second Nature:2N:Segunda Natura (solo), Museo de Arte, Queretaro Mexico 2005

Equinoccio, multi-media sculptural installation/intervention utilizing 1200 beer bottles to reconstruct a mayan temple, recreating the equinox experience with found rocks, photography, banner with original text, singing and video projection.
Solo exhibition curated by Yucatan Institute of Culture, Centro de Artes Visuales (CAV), Merida Mexico 2007

The Cleansing (video), selected as one of 12 international art videos
words no words: Geborgen Kamers Gallery, the Hague, Nederlands  2007

International Assemblage, Gallery 37, Berlin, Germany 2006,2008

Santuario Exhibition, La Clinica Arte Contemporaneo, Merida Mexico 2008

Sound Marks, Live Performance (Painting/Vocals/Interactive Video) Collaboration with violinist Mayumi Seiler and Via Salsburg, Glen Gould Studio, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation CBC, Toronto 2009

Save Yourself 1st, sculpture/installation, Museo de la Cuidad, Merida, Mexico 2010

Artist Residency/Exhibition, Untitled BCN, Barcelona Spain, Sep-Oct 2011

Artist Residency/Exhibition, cULTUREgLU:Anguilla, Anguilla BVI, Nov2012-Mar 2013

Portas Aberta/Open Doors, Exhibition at Forum Foundation Eugenio de Almeida, Evora, Portugal, July-October 2013

MAP Merida Art Palace Mexico, solo exhibition Everything & Nada (Almost Crashing Falling Shining Brightly Upwards) for inaugural event. Site specific installation with sculpture, light, video, paintings. MAP Merida, Mexico July-August 2013

Hay Algo en El Agua: There is Something in the Water @ Lux Perpetua Art Centre  Merida Mexico 2016

NEVER GIVE UP! MultiMedia Exhibition + Performance (painting/sculpture/video/installation/music/vocals) @ Las Palmas Art Hub in Collaboration with Lux Perpetual Art Centre Mexico April/May 2016

Never Give Up! Multimedia Performance @ Oeds Studio for Berlin Arts Week
September 11, 2016



cULTUREgLU YUCATAN  solo exhibition paintings/sculpture/video @ Fundacion de Artistas Merida  Mexico
​Sep-Nov 2017    

CENOTE: The World Reborn  exhibition
mixed media hybrid sculpture/paintings
@ Fundacion de Artistas Merida Mexico
October/Novemeber 2019​

cULTUREgLU Songs
Live performance
SOFAR SOUNDS
Toronto 
Oct 6 2019

ARTE MID Feria
Invited to make an installation/sculpture/performance at the Merida Contemporary Art Fair in Mexico.  I created TQM (Te Quiero Mucho) , an interactive light sculpture mounted in the garden, along with live musical performance based on an original song I wrote based on the endearing affectionate way the local people of the Yucatan communicate expressing their affection for each other. This work explored the ideas of culture and the universal questions of "who do you love?" yourself? your family? the planet? Viewers were encouraged to sing, dance with the artist and take selfies with their images reflected in the mirror like light sculpture. This work speaks to the human condition, sustainability, while actively engaging the audience to participate.
Oct 28 - Dec 1 2019

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  • :art:
    • ::installation::
    • :cULTUREgLU::BARCELONA:
    • ::sculpture::
    • :video:performance:
    • :poetry:vocals:
  • current:
  • Cenote Series
  • ::contact::
  • :CV:
  • cULTUREgLU songs
  • TQM
  • NEVER GIVE UP!