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Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster are a Toronto-based artist duo. Together they create spaces and objects that interrupt everyday situations in critically engaging and playful ways. As a multi-disciplinary practice, they operate at a variety of scales, from books and exhibitions to temporary installations and permanent public artworks. Their practice focuses on ‘Social Infrastructures’ which seek to build community by fostering playful interactions in public space and ‘Expanded Preservation’ projects which use alternative methods of documentation as forms of alternative historic conservation.

They are the authors of “Growing up Modern” (Birkhäuser, 2021) and their installations have been commissioned by the Buffalo AKG Art Museum (formerly Albright-Knox), Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts (CEPA Gallery) and the Musée de la civilisation in Québec City among others. They have exhibited in galleries, produced temporary installations and realized permanent public artworks in Canada, USA, Germany, France, Italy and South Korea, including solo shows at Vtape in Toronto, the Weissenhofwerkstatt in Stuttgart and Gallery Kolektiv 313 in Marseille.

Julia is an Associate Professor in the Department of Architectural Science at Toronto Metropolitan University.