Biography
Jonathan Creese is a Trinidadian visual artist, printmaker, and arts administrator currently based in Calgary AB. He graduated in 2025 with distinction from Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary AB with a Bachelor of Fine Art in Fibre and a minor in Print Media. He has exhibited works in solo exhibitions at the Prairie Crocus Gallery, Calgary AB and the Art Society of Trinidad and Tobago, Federation Park TTO. Additionally, he has exhibited extensively in group exhibitions, with Other Horizons: AUArts x SMFA Exchange Exhibition at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, Boston MA and Not so Mini 2024 at Alberta Printmakers, Calgary AB being most recent. In 2025 he was the recipient of the AUArts Board of Governors Graduating Student Award and the Haystack Mountain School of Craft Studio Assistant Fellowship.
Contact
Email: jonathan.creese@outlook.com
Instagram @the.creole.factory
CV PDF download here
| Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fibre, minor in Print Media 2025 Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary AB |
Solo and Joint Exhibitions
| 2025 | age and sex, january 2025 Installation, Galerie Gaulin, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary AB |
| 2022 | Building Patterns Installation, Prairie Crocus Window at Stride Gallery, Calgary AB The Void over the Land I Installation, Marion Nicoll Gallery LRT space, Calgary AB |
| 2025 | False Narratives Joint Exhibition with Christine Norton, Art Society of Trinidad and Tobago, TTO |
Curatorial Work
| 2026 | Copies: Print Show and Fundraiser facilitator and printmaker, Crawlspace Gallery, Calgary AB Wingbeat, featuring Matthew Gil Marion Nicoll Gallery LRT space, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB |
| 2025 | Other Horizons: AUArts x SMFA Exchange Exhibition School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, Boston MA |
| 2024 | Fibre and Jewellery Department Show Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary AB Elevating the Paper Object Marion Nicoll Gallery LRT space, Calgary, AB |
| 2023 | Flux and Flax Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB |
Select Group Exhibitions
| 2026 | Cadavre Exquis Part 3 “Recompose” Theatre 1308, Calgary AB Lasting Impressions 2026 Alberta Printmakers, Calgary AB Tech Show 2026 Gallery 371, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary AB |
| 2025 | Grad Show 2025 Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary AB Warm Fuzzies, curated by Mell Edwards Guest Room Gallery, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary AB |
| 2024 | Not So Mini 2024 Alberta Printmakers, Calgary AB Lasting Impressions 2024 Alberta Printmakers, Calgary AB Heat Wave: AUArts Summer Residency 2024 Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary AB The Winter Lodge 2: New Year, New Lodge, curated by Morgan Black and Jillian Dolan Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary AB |
| 2023 | Weave got Cloth Bù Vintage Shoppe, Calgary AB Emerging Artists Unleashed Art Society of Alberta, Calgary, AB |
| 2022 | Peoples Poetry Festival, installation alongside poet Brett Crowle Loft 112, Calgary AB Lasting Impressions 2022 Alberta Printmakers, Calgary, AB |
| 2021 | Easter Traditions and Religious Art Art Society of Trinidad and Tobago, TTO |
| 2020 | New Faces 2020 Horizons Art Gallery, TTO Carnival on Canvas Loftt Gallery TTO |
Select Awards
| 2025 | Haystack Mountain School of Craft Studio Assistant Fellowship AUArts Board of Governors Graduating Student Award |
| 2024 | Wendy Toogood & Don Mabie Scholarship Fibre Forward Award AUArtsSA Fourth Year Legacy Scholarship Susanne Agopsowicz Memorial Scholarship (The Calgary Foundation) |
Residencies, Workshops, Notable Projects
| 2025 | “Breaking Down the Blank Page: Pop Art + Creative Systems” with Dr. Curtis Bullock Workshop, Haystack Mountain School of Craft Session 3 Graphics, Deer Isle ME |
| 2024 | Alberta University of the Arts Summer Residency Calgary AB |
| 2022 | “Papermaking” with Pam DeLuco Workshop, Haystack Mountain School of Craft Session 3 Graphics, Deer Isle ME |
Publications
| 2025 | “Ambiguity as Idea: Words Made Flesh”, Review of Jeff Wielki’s The Reckoning, Winter 2025 Digital Essays: Prototype, Marion Nicoll Gallery, Calgary AB https://www.marionnicollgallery.ca/writings/jonathan-creese |
| 2024 | “thoughts of a Reviewer on a Critic writing on a Translation”, Review of Marsel Reddick’s Scoring the MNG, Fall 2023 Digital Essays: Overbyte, Marion Nicoll Gallery, Calgary AB https://www.marionnicollgallery.ca/writings/thoughts-of-a-reviewer-on-a-critic-writing-on-a-translation |
| 2023 | “An Inevitable Realisation”, Review of Mieke Uhryniuk-Smith’s Unfathomable Accumulation, Winter 2023 Digital Essays, Marion Nicoll Gallery, Calgary AB. https://www.marionnicollgallery.ca/writings/jcreese “Matthew 4:4”, Story Colonial Imports#3 Supermarket Realism, Yolkless Press, Calgary AB “Northern Oracle: Heather Hart at the Illingworth Kerr Gallery”, Zine publication Self-published, Calgary AB |
| 2022 | “Napi and the Rock on the Cracked Screen”, Review of online performance of Napi and the Rock (presented by Making Treaty 7 and Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra) Emerging Art Writers 3, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary AB |
Bibliography
| 2024 | Jeff Wielki. “More Than Surface”, Review, Digital Essays: Overbyte, Marion Nicoll Gallery, Calgary AB https://www.marionnicollgallery.ca/writings-1/jeff-wielki-more-than-surface |
| 2020 | Carol Quash. “Artists retell history with False Narratives”, Feature, Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Port of Spain, TTO https://newsday.co.tt/2020/11/03/artists-retell-history-with-false-narratives/ |