Chantal Nadeau and Jessie Mott
Mott and Nadeau’s multidisciplinary practice reveals their abiding interest in reshaping creature morphologies.
Exhibitions
2023. Les Queer Animals: Affamé.e.s. Drawings, Illustrations and Poems. La Maison de la Littérature, Québec, Canada
2022. We Hold Your Gaze_Remixed. Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art, Winnipeg, Canada
2021. We Hold Your Gaze. Epiphany Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL, USA
Publications
2023. Affamé.e.s. Montréal, Hamac illustré (creative non-fiction & poetry)
2020. Les trouées. Montréal, Hamac. (creative non-fiction & poetry)
Residences and Awards
2020. DCASE Individual Artists Program (IAP) grant
2020. Leighton Studios Residency. Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Jessie Mott
Jessie Mott is a Chicago-based visual artist whose work spans an array of media, including drawing, painting, ceramics, and collaborative projects. She is best known for her watercolor drawings of hybrid creatures that explore a perverse fascination with the "natural" world where erotic fantasy, queer monstrosity, and the threat of violence, both real and imagined, coalesce within portrait-like frames. Her animations made with the artist and writer Steve Reinke have been screened widely at national and international venues such as International Film Festival Rotterdam, VIDEOEX International Experimental Film & Video Festival in Zürich, and the Whitney Biennial. Mott has also participated in numerous group and solo shows including Devening Projects + Editions and the Hyde Park Art Center. Mott received a Master's of Fine Arts in the Department of Art Theory & Practice from Northwestern University, and a B.S. in Studio Art from New York University.
Chantal Nadeau
Chantal Nadeau is French-Québécoise and lives in Chicago. She is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Criticism and Interpretative Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her scholarship and teaching centers on theories of sex and power, queer studies, nationalisms/postcolonialisms, cinema, and legal cultures. She is the author of two monographs: Fur Nation: From The Beaver to Brigitte Bardot (Routledge 2001), and Queer Courage (Fordham University Press, 2021). Her work in French and in English has appeared in numerous edited collections and journals in U.S., Canada, France, U.K. among other places. Recently, Nadeau has explored creative modes of critical analysis. Les trouées [Full of Holes], a non-fiction creative book on trauma and violence, is her first publication with Hamac, Les Productions Somme toute (2020) and Like Queer Animals marks her first synergic artistic collaboration with visual artist and writer Jessie Mott.