Luis Jacob

2019 Program & Exhibition Artist

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Luis Jacob (born in 1970, Lima, Peru; lives in Toronto, Canada) is an artist and curator. Since participating in documenta 12 (2007), he has achieved an international reputation with exhibitions at The Corner at Whitman-Walker, Washington, D.C. (2021); the Museum der Moderne, Salzburg (2019); the Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (2019), the Toronto Biennial of Art (2019); La Biennale de Montréal (2016); Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York (2015); the Taipei Biennial (2012); the Generali Foundation, Vienna (2011); the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2010); the Kunstverein Hamburg (2008); and the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (2008).

Exhibit

Luis Jacob at Union Station

The View from Here is a two-part installation located in Union Station’s Oak Room and 259 Lake Shore Blvd E. At Union Station, Jacob’s contemporary photographs are paired with the artist’s collection of rare maps and street views, representing different yet overlapping narratives of the same places. The tension between these views invites a reconsideration […]

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September 21 – December 1, 2019

Luis Jacob, The View from Here, 2019, collection of maps and printed matter published from 1872 to 2019. Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art and co-presented by Toronto Union. On view at Union Station as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art (2019). Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid. Courtesy the Toronto Biennial of Art.
Luis Jacob, The View from Here, 2019, collection of maps and printed matter published from 1872 to 2019. Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art and co-presented by Toronto Union. On view at Union Station as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art (2019). Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid. Courtesy the Toronto Biennial of Art.
Luis Jacob, The View from Here, 2019, collection of maps and printed matter published from 1872 to 2019. Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art and co-presented by Toronto Union. On view at Union Station as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art (2019). Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid. Courtesy the Toronto Biennial of Art.
Luis Jacob, The View from Here, 2019, collection of maps and printed matter published from 1872 to 2019. Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art and co-presented by Toronto Union. On view at Union Station as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art (2019). Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid. Courtesy the Toronto Biennial of Art.
Luis Jacob, The View from Here, 2019, collection of maps and printed matter published from 1872 to 2019. Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art and co-presented by Toronto Union. On view at Union Station as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art (2019). Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid. Courtesy the Toronto Biennial of Art.

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Luis Jacob at 259 Lake Shore Blvd E

The View from Here is a two-part installation located at 259 Lake Shore Blvd E and Union Station’s Oak Room. Here, Jacob’s extensive collection of rare books, published since 1872, is paired with his contemporary photographs, elucidating different representations of Toronto—a city where the very question of place is deeply layered, complex, and contested. Official […]

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September 21 – December 1, 2019

Luis Jacob, The View From Here (Library), 2019, collection of maps and printed matter published from 1872 to 2019. Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art and co-presented by Toronto Union. On view at 259 Lake Shore Blvd E as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art (2019). Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid. Courtesy the Toronto Biennial of Art.
Luis Jacob, The View From Here (Library), 2019, collection of maps and printed matter published from 1872 to 2019. Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art and co-presented by Toronto Union. On view at 259 Lake Shore Blvd E as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art (2019). Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid. Courtesy the Toronto Biennial of Art.
Luis Jacob, The View From Here (Library), 2019, collection of maps and printed matter published from 1872 to 2019. Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art and co-presented by Toronto Union. On view at 259 Lake Shore Blvd E as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art (2019). Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid. Courtesy the Toronto Biennial of Art.
Luis Jacob, The View from Here, 2019. Courtesy the artist.

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Program

The View from Here with Simon Vickers

Simon Vickers researches intersections of public and urban history, focusing on activism across particular neighbourhoods in Toronto and Montreal since the 1960s. For this presentation, Vickers engages with Luis Jacob’s two-part installation The View from Here to initiate dialogues on historical social movements and how the city has been impacted by gentrification, affordability and the role of printed matter in tracing those […]

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November 4

2:00pm – 4:00pm

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OCAD University
Toronto Union

Program

The View from Here with Bonnie Devine

In response to various objects in Luis Jacob’s installation The View From Here, Bonnie Devine introduces a surveyor’s transit from her project Circles and Lines: Michi Saagiig, 2018. View-finding instruments have been used since antiquity to mark out, allot, and regulate land, including the land of the Mississauga Nation that was transferred to the British […]

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November 25

2:00pm – 4:00pm

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OCAD University
Toronto Union
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