Jenny Hawkinson is an artist and creative researcher based in Vancouver, BC. Her practice is found at the intersection(s) of socially engaged art, conflict engagement, visual art, social composition and sound studies. She holds an MFA with Transart Institute for Creative Research.

Hawkinson’s work plays with notions of public space and contested territories. Her preferred methodology is gathering, whether it be field recordings, found materials or people. The resulting projects are complex works that dance between the political and the poetic; creating space for practicing subversion, circular systems and gift economies.

In the Spring of 2024, Hawkinson curated and facilitated a d.i.y. community residency structured around notions of feedback. Feedback Loop shifted the gallery into a collective space for shared meals, discussions and reading groups, experimental sound-based art, performance/rehearsal space and a community drop-in. In July 2022 she facilitated Call & Response, a collaborative sound intervention beneath the Burrard Street Bridge in Vancouver, BC. In addition to several groups shows, she has exhibited her work throughout Western Canada. Several research trips to Israel/Palestine, Northern Ireland, and the UK have informed her social practice and other creative work in understanding conflict engagement through a creative lens.