Based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
EDUCATION
2000 MFA – Concordia University, Montréal, QC
1994 BFA Honours – University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Internal Dynamics / Dynamique interne, Optica, Montréal, QC
2016 The Artist Should Have Value, The New Gallery, Calgary, AB
2014 More Calm, Window Project Space, Winnipeg, MB, curated by JJ Kegan McFadden
2013 Inventory, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Sightings satellite exhibition space, Montreal, QC
2011 Sound Ideas, Centre d'art et de diffusion Clark, Montréal, QC
2011 The Longer it Takes, the Better it Feels, Eastern Edge, St-John’s, NL
2010 The End, G Gallery, Toronto, ON
2009 Pétard, Galerie B-312, Montréal, QC
2009 SCREAM, PAVED Media Arts, Saskatoon, SK, curated by David LaRivière (duo with Jillian McDonald)
2008 Long Shot, La Centrale, Montréal, QC
2007 New Work, The Other Gallery, The Banff Centre, Banff, AB
2007 C'mon, c'mon, Truck Contemporary Art, Calgary, AB
2003 Machination, Ace Art Inc., Winnipeg, MB
2003 El Dorado, Galerie SAW Gallery, Ottawa, ON (collaboration with Stephan Kurr)
2002 Machination, Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges, Montréal, QC
2001 Blind Date, eyelevel gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia (duo with Craig Ferguson)
2000 The End, Bourget Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal, QC
1998 Oh…Nothing, Bourget Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal, QC
1996 Want You Too Much, Plug In Billboard Project, Winnipeg, MB
1995 Advice to the Lovelorn, Ace Art Inc., Winnipeg, MB
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 I digress…, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC, curated by Zoë Chan
2018 Qui parle ? / Who Speaks? Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, QC
2017 Kids These Days, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC
2017 Document XXL, Artexte, Montréal, QC, curated by Nelson Henricks
2016 Let’s be open about… l’art conceptuel, Dazibao, Montréal, QC, curated by Daniel Olson and France Choinière
2016 Kids These Days, Mount Saint-Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, NS
2015 Just Cause: Bad Faith – Art Workers’ Activism and Organizing in NYC and Beyond, Interference Archive, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Bruissements et pétarades, L’Œil de poisson, Québec City, QC, curated by Marc-Antoine K. Phaneuf & Nadège Grebmeir Forget
2014 Bande à Part / Kids These Days, Foreman Art Gallery, Bishop’s University, Lennoxville, QC, curated by Zoë Chan
2013 Bruissements et pétarades, L’Écart, Rouyn-Noranda, QC, curated by Marc-Antoine K. Phaneuf & Nadège Grebmeir Forget
2012 Smokin’ in the Boys’ Room, Modern Fuel Gallery, Kingston, ON, curated by Michael Davidge
2011 So Many Letdowns Before We Get Up, Platform Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts, Winnipeg, MB, curated by Kegan McFadden
2010 Forecast, Luminary Centre for the Arts (now The Luminary), St. Louis, Missouri
2008 Skid, Open Space Gallery, Victoria, BC, curated by Alan Kollins
2008 Beatrice’s Centre for Student Affairs, or How I learned that my mother was right about making art in a prairie town during the rise and fall of grunge music, InterAccess Gallery, Toronto, curated by Jennifer Cherniack
2008 Tone Deaf, Modern Fuel Gallery, Kingston, ON
2008 Unclassifiable, Fonderie Darling, Montréal, curated by Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen & Jenny Yurshansky
2007 The Official Dinner, Drake Hotel, curated by Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley)
2007 TULCA 2007 Festival of Contemporary Art, Galway, Ireland
2007 Come On: Desire Under the Female Gaze, Warehouse Gallery, Syracuse, NY, curated by Astria Suparak
2006 Beyond Feminism, Parisian Laundry, Montréal, curated by Sarah McCutcheon Greiche
2006 Teenage Kicks – Ça plane pour moi, Galerie Clark, Montréal, curated by Mathieu Beauséjour
2004 Used/Goods - site-specific exhibition, Salvation Army retail store, Montréal, presented by Articule
2004 Mellow Drama, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto
2001 Hôpital, a site-specific exhibition in an abandoned Montréal hospital. Presented by articule
2001 25 Years, 25 Artists, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal
2000 Manif d'art de Québec, presented by l’Oeil de poisson, Québec, QC
1999 Say Nothing, Be Silent, Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
1999 48 Rooms/48 Hours, site-specific exhibition in a derelict Montréal rooming house
1998 Laughing, Plug In, Winnipeg, curated by Wayne Baerwaldt and Blair Martin
1996 Immense/Ordered/Deranged, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, curated by Cliff Eyland
FESTIVALS AND SCREENINGS:
2016 FIFA – Festival International des Films sur l’Art, curated by Nicole Gingras
2015 Connexions, Dazibao, Montréal, curated by David K. Ross
2015 Le GIV Présente : Lancements, Maison de la Culture du Plateau-Mont-Royal, Montréal
2013 SeeThru Music & Video Series, Outpost Artists Resource Centre, Queens, NY 2012
2013 Cinéma au Palais, Nuit Blanche, Montréal
2012 Tidal Force/La force des marées, Articule artist-run centre, Montréal
2011 Cascades et autres actes de bravoure, Centre d'art et de diffusion Clark, Montréal
2007 Festival d'été de Québec, curated by Mathieu Beauséjour
2006 Optic Nerve, Artspace, Peterborough, Ontario
2005 The End is in the Beginning, Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario
2005 Time Lag - Neue Videos Aus Canada, Basel, Switzerland
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2002 ART THROB: The Culture of Obsession, Daniel Barrow, Cecilia Berkovic, Evergon, Shari Hatt, Keith Orkusz,
Shelley Ouellet. Co-curated with Peter Hobbs, Articule, Montreal
AWARDS
2014 Canada Council for the Arts, International Residencies Program – ISCP New York
2011 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec – Research and creation grant
2007 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec – Research and creation grant
2005 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec – Research and creation grant
2004 Canada Council for the Arts – Creation / Production Grant
2003 Canada Council for the Arts – Travel Grant
1999 Canada Council for the Arts – Travel Grant
1996 Manitoba Arts Council – Student Bursary
1995 Manitoba Arts Council – Visual Arts "B" Grant
SELECTED MEDIA & PRESS REVIEWS
Marie Villeneuve, Phare Ouest - interview on ICI Radio-Canada, April 20, 2026
Edwin Janzen, Jo-Anne Balcaen, Any Gallery, Anywhere, Espace art actuel, Fall 2019
Benjamnin J. Allard, Atelier - interview on CIBL radio, June 10, 2019
Nicolas Mavrikakis, Dynamique interne: le cube blanc renversé, Le Devoir, April 24, 2019
Michael DiRisio, Administrative Logics in the Work of Jo-Anne Balcaen and Anne-Marie Proulx, Esse arts+opinions, No. 94, fall 2018
Nicolas Mavrikakis, L’art de se faire entendre, Le Devoir, April 14, 2018
Tammer El-Sheikh, Qui parle ? Who Speaks? Akimblog, March 28, 2018
Aseman Sabet, Les célébrités au musée, On dira ce qu’on voudra, ICI première, February 28, 2018
Marie-Ève Charron, L’art à propos de l’art conceptual, Le Devoir, May 7, 2016
Tiernan Morgan, Art Workers of New York, Unite! Hyperallergic.com, December 11, 2015
Edwin Janzen, Bande à part / Kids these days, C Magazine, No. 125, Spring 2015
Nicolas Mavrikakis, D’où venons-nous, que sommes nous, où allons-nous?, Le Devoir, August 23, 2014
Jérôme Delgado, Collectionner l’ordinaire, Le Devoir, August 17, 2013
Mary Reid, Haven’t we been here before? C Magazine, #112, Winter 2011
Jérôme Delgado, Dans les bas-fonds du rock, Le Devoir, January 24, 2009
Leah Sandals, Barrow, Tapper and Balcaen: Picture of a School-Art Exhibition, Canadian Art Online
www.canadianart.ca/online/video/2008/12/11/school-art, December 11, 2008
Susan Frye, Desire and Wish Fulfilment, artmind.ca, August 22, 2008
Stacey DeWolfe, Fandemonium, Montreal Mirror, June 12, 2008
Lyne Crevier, Tout ça pour ça, ICI, Montréal, June 12, 2008
Nancy Keefe Rhodes, Balcaen Shows at Warehouse Gallery, Syracuse City Eagle, Sept. 13, 2007
Nicole Burisch, Ohmygod, FFWD Calgary's Weekly, April 26, 2007
Randall Anderson, Teenage Kicks Canadian Art, Vol. 23, No. 4, winter 2006
René Viau, Au-delà du feminisme, Le Devoir, Montréal, Saturday November 12, 2006
Nicolas Mavrikakis, Énergie Brute, VOIR, Montréal, Thursday, September 28, 2006
Anita Euteneier, Ceiling Takes on a Golden Hue, Ottawa Xpress, Thurs. Mar. 20, 2003
Kelly Martino, Vision of Love, Uptown, Winnipeg, Thrusday, April 17, 2003
Amy Karlinsky, Art Review, Winnipeg Free Press, Thursday, April 17, 2003
Mylène Crête, Des voix en fleur, La Liberté, St.Boniface, Thurs. April 17, 2003
Suzanne Richard, Chasse à l’œuvre d’or, VOIR Outaouais, Ottawa, Thursday, April 3, 2003
COLLECTIONS
University of Ottawa
Université du Québec en Outaouais
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University
Private collections
VIDEO DISTRIBUTION
GIV Groupe Intervention Video, Montréal