Jes Young: Single Served

A Collective City Gallery Project Exhibition

Jes Young, Under the Bridge, 2026, Glazed and natural porcelain, 30″ w x 30″ d x 9″ h

Jes Young: Single Served

March 25 – April 5, 2026
Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 25, 6 – 9pm
Artist Talk + Craft Session: Saturday, April 4, 12 – 2pm
Dupont Rail Gallery, Toronto
*Artist in attendance on weekends

Collective City Arts is proud to present Single Served, an exhibition by artist Jes Young, Wednesday, March 25 – Sunday, April 5, at the Dupont Rail Gallery. The exhibition is the fourth in a series of eight shows being hosted in the 2026 season by the Collective City Arts Gallery Project.

Single Served is an installation celebrating things we hold sacred in our normal routines—from essentials to vices—the things we buy, use, and then immediately discard. The artist states, “I see what has become litter as captured moments that feel like home, when finding home has become increasingly precarious.” Pigeons and trash serve as symbols of single use domestication, created in porcelain to re-examine how we determine the value of our everyday encounters and surroundings.

Jes Young

About the Artist

Jes Young is a non-binary educator and sculptor based in Toronto, Canada. In their practice they create installations of ceramic multiples that mimic trash, infestations and urban pests in porcelain, celebrating abandoned subjects that make up moments in our everyday life. In 2024, Young founded Kitte Club, a ceramics studio in Toronto that promotes the growth of ceramic artists in their practices, providing accessible studio spaces, instruction and mentorships, technical help in building and firing, and programming artist driven events and activities.

Young received their Masters of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours, and Bachelor of Education from York University. They have held a guest artist position at York University and have exhibited in multiple shows in Toronto such as Nuit Blanche Toronto (2022), The Artist Project Toronto (2023 & 2025), The Clay and Glass Gallery (2025), The Toronto Outdoor Art Fair’s Art Nest (2025), and The Gladstone House Artist Residency (2023). They have also exhibited and practiced internationally at PADA Residency in Barreiro, Portugal (2023), and Gracía in Antigua, Guatemala (2023).

Young continues to develop their artistic practice while working as a Fabricator for local Toronto artists, teaching in the TDSB and developing programs at Kitte Club.

Collective City Gallery Project | Upcoming Exhibitions

Orest Tataryn: Bright Lights
Curated by Lois Andison
May 20 – May 31, 2026

A colourist at heart, Orest’s signature works are colour studies that combine mathematics with pattern, abstraction, and the precise placement, proportions, and relationships of chroma. His process often involves cutting sections of glass tube (some phosphor-coated and uncoated coloured glass), then fusing the different sections, then repeating this technique with minor variations over several tubes to create a colour field. The exhibition will present both large-scale works and smaller works, many of which are undocumented.

Margaret Glew: Burning Fire Blues
June 17 – 28, 2026

The exhibition features recent large-scale abstractions. “As I head into what may well be my last decade of life, I find myself thinking a lot about what painting means to me. Painting has been the driving force of my life for decades now. It has given voice so to speak to the deep feelings that are difficult for me to put into words. I came up with the title Burning Fire Blues because it says in a few words a lot about the ideas and feelings expressed in my work.”

Jim Bravo: It Took an Age or Two to Get Home
August 19 – 30, 2026

Jim Bravo has been working on a catalogue of works reflecting both his family’s early Black immigrant inner-city experiences in 1970s and 1980s Toronto, as well as his love for the sublime Canadian landscape. It is his mission to continue to help transform the homes, streets, and neighbourhoods of all Canada’s provinces into living galleries of art.

About The Collective City Gallery Project

The Gallery Project will stage eight shows during the 2026 season, featuring the work of independent artists, arts collectives, and curators not represented by a commercial gallery or institution in the Greater Toronto Region, showcasing their work at no cost.

The Project aims to make the shows accessible to as broad a public as possible, allowing Collective City Arts to provide a public service to the community—a model that does not currently exist in Toronto. For more information about the Collective City Arts Gallery Project, visit The Gallery Project.

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Dupont Rail Gallery
1444 Dupont Street, Unit 10
Toronto, ON M6P 4H3

Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 12 – 5pm

Accessibility: Dupont Rail Gallery is fully accessible. For more information, visit Dupont Rail Gallery.