Jessica Wee is a Korean American Canadian artist who grew up in Paris and Montreal. Wee’s work explores the experience of navigating life between cultures, crafting alternate worlds that connect the multifaceted layers of her identity. She weaves together personal experiences, art historical references and fantasy, with an underlying sense of mystery and playful disruption. Her paintings depict domestic scenes and quotidian moments featuring characters who appear to transform, multiply, or divide. These alter-egos exude a sense of mischief, independence and freedom, soaring through space or peering through windows as if slipping in from another dimension.
Jessica Wee is currently completing an MFA at Concordia University in Montreal and previously studied classical realist oil painting at the Angel Academy of Art in Florence, Italy. Her work has been exhibited at Kiaf SEOUL, Maison de la Culture NDG in Montreal, Steve Turner Gallery in Los Angeles, Latitude Gallery in New York, and Spring Break Art Show in New York, and has been featured in Hyperallergic and Artnet. In 2023, Artsy selected her work Déjeuner sur l’herbe to display across digital screens in the New York City subway system as part of a curated program highlighting artists through guest curators. That same year, Wee was an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center. Her work will be presented in the upcoming Pictura Triennale of Painting in Montreal, curated by eunice belidor in the Fall of 2026.
RECENT NEWS
Acquisition
Jessica Wee
Artwork joins the University of Toronto Missisauga Collection
Drawing from domestic scenes and quotidian moments, Wee’s paintings weave together personal experiences, art historical references and fantasy.
Press
Andrea Szilasi
Review of Réfléchir in Ciel variable by Alexis Desgagnés
Published in Issue 132 “Tableaux”, Desgagnés offers a thoughtful and generous reflection on the exhibition, capturing the subtle and affective resonance of the works on view.
Museum Exhibition
Yves Tessier
MAC group exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts
Girls on Campus by Tessier will be featured in Comfort and Indifference, an exhibition highlighting recent acquisitions from the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal’s collection.
Press
Bea Parsons
Review of kiyânaw in Border Crossings Magazine by Cameron Skene
Skene traces connections between Parsons’ vibrant pencil crayon drawings and installation, situating them in relation to enduring and contemporary Indigenous currents of thought.
Announcement
Rebecca Munce
Major Public Art Project in Toronto
This public art initiative, developed in collaboration with The Bentway and Exhibition Place, will take the form of a 10,000-square-foot mural spanning a large concrete wall beneath the Gardiner Expressway.
Announcement
Michelle Bui
New Public Artwork for the Réseau express métropolitain
McBride Contemporain is pleased to announce the inauguration of Filets, a new public artwork and triptych by represented artist Michelle Bui, permanently on display at Sainte-Dorothée Station in the REM.
McBride Contemporain is a contemporary art gallery based in Montreal.