Pierre St-Jacques: People in the City

Pierre St-Jacques, Untitled (Pandemic Painting), Oil on Linen, 56″ x 48″ (142 cm x 122 cm), 2025

People in the City
A Solo Show by Pierre St-Jacques
Organized by Station Independent Projects

May 8 – May 16, 2026
Opening Reception: May 8, 2026, 6 – 8pm
Remote Gallery A, Toronto
www.stationindependent.com

At the outset, St-Jacques wanted to call this show Angels in the Maze, but didn’t like the religious connotations with ‘angels,’ as if we are on team ‘good’ and could do no wrong. He wanted to treat the people depicted in his work with kindness, but also to understand that we are subjects with faults, and that these faults are in a sense beautiful and deserve an attempt at understanding.

St-Jacques’ new body of work reflects a diffused sense of disorientation that feels inseparable from contemporary life. Society has expanded and intertwined in countless directions, creating systems so complex that attempts to improve one area often produce unintended consequences elsewhere. The result is a pervasive uncertainty—a feeling that it’s no longer clear where we stand, or how best to move forward.

These works sit within that uncertainty. They speak to the unease of navigating a world we have meticulously constructed yet struggle to inhabit comfortably. It’s as if, in the act of building, we gathered endless measurements and notes, only to discover that the final structure doesn’t quite fit. The figures in these pieces exist within that awkwardness, searching for footing, connection, and meaning amid the gaps.

Pierre St-Jacques, Untitled (Study for Hearing Aid), Ink on paper, 12.5″ x 11″ (32 cm x 28 cm), 2025

About the Artist

Pierre St-Jacques is a Toronto-based artist working in video and a variety of 2D media. His work often takes the shape of multi-channel video installations, or drawings. He also likes to keep a sketchbook, not as a vehicle for quick drawings but as a way of putting down a series of thoughts in finished form, almost as a series of mini performances.

St-Jacques has shown both nationally and internationally. Having lived in New York City from 1999 to 2022 many of his exhibitions have been centered around the NYC area. He has shown his work at Artist Space, Station Independent Projects, the Bronx Museum, BRIC and Metaphor Contemporary NYC, and in Toronto at Gallery 1313 Remote Gallery and John B. Aird Gallery amongst others. He has taken part in a multitude of art fairs such as DIVA Video Art Fair, Scope Art Fair, Art on Paper NYC, Red Dot Miami, Bridge Art Fair NYC and Miami, and Pool Miami Art Fair.

St-Jacques has also been part of a series of film festivals such as the Montreal New Cinema and New Video Festival, the Berlin International Director’s Lounge, and the Chelsea Film Festival amongst others.

St-Jacques recently completed a new 4-channel video installation entitled Two Birds on a Wire which premiered at Station Independent Projects in Toronto. There are also a series of canvasses leaning on his studio wall depicting modern life in the city.

Pierre St-Jacques, Untitled (Night Road), Oil on Linen, 56″ x 48″ (142 cm x 122 cm), 2025

About Station Independent Projects

Station Independent Projects organizes exhibitions and events with a focus on artist advocacy. Station Independent Projects specializes in discovering new emerging and mid-career artists that are not represented by galleries and organizes shows to connect artists to broader audiences. Station Independent Projects opened shows at galleries in Toronto, Ontario from 2023 to 2025 and in the Lower East Side in New York City from 2012 to 2017. Previous to opening galleries, Station Independent Projects organized exhibitions in the New York City and Chicago areas for over ten years with numerous galleries, museums, art fairs and art non-profits. Station Independent Projects has been featured in the Art on Paper NYC Fair 2024, Red Dot Miami 2024, and the Scope Art Fair NYC. Station Independent Projects has had press in dArt International, Whitehot Magazine, Art Daily, Designlines, Musee Magazine, Woven Tale Press, Hyperallergic, W Magazine, NY Times Style Magazine, Chronogram, The Brooklyn Rail, and more.