Jacques is a curator and writer who specializes in Canadian art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Since 2021, she has been the Director of Exhibitions and Collections/Chief Curator at Remai Modern in Saskatoon. She began her curatorial career at the Art Gallery of Ontario where she held various positions in the Contemporary and Canadian art departments before departing to become the chief curator at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria in 2012.

Her recent curatorial projects include Kaija Sanelma Harris: Warp & Weft, co-curated with Steph Canning and Maia Stark (Remai Modern and Saskatchewan Craft Council, 2024-25); Denyse Thomasos: just beyond, co-curated with Renee van der Avoird and Sally Frater (AGO and Remai Modern, 2022-23 and traveling); and Ken Lum: Death and Furniture, co-curated with Johan Lundh (Remai Modern and AGO, 2022). Over the course of her career, she has curated and written about the work of numerous contemporary artists, and she maintains a strong research interest in Canadian modernism, cultivated during her graduate studies. In 2024, Jacques was awarded a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts for outstanding contribution; in 2022, she received the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award in Curatorial excellence. She is currently the president of the board of the AAMC Foundation – Art Curators, a New York-based organization that supports and promotes the work of art curators around the world.