MJ Daines is an artist and researcher exploring different ways to reimagine her interactions with received ideas, trying to bridge gaps in our common knowledge. Her sculptures and installations largely emerge from the process and structure of weaving, accumulating form line by line. Using contemporary tools and thrifted materials, she re-imagines ancient technologies and communication strategies, interpreting the ways in which people adapt and innovate from manual to mechanical to digital to whatever comes next.
MJ Daines lives and works in Tiohtià:ke / Montreal, Canada. She holds an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School at Bard College, a BFA in Art History from Concordia University, and certification in textile analysis from the Centre International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens (France), in computerized jacquard weaving from the Centre des Textiles Contemporains de Montréal. She has been in residence at Penland School of Crafts (NC), The Banff Centre (Canada), Pocoapoco (Mexico) and at the studio of Andrea Zittel (CA). She is currently a lecturer in visual arts at Princeton University.
