18 October 2025 to 1 February, 2026
Curated by Darryn Doull
Jenine Marsh presents HARBINGER, a site-specific, immersive installation that centers on the alteration of the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery's existing gallery floor. Colliding modes of excavation and construction, her work will examine histories of sacrifice and utopic hope which emerge from the near-universal ritual of throwing coins into fountains and wells to make a wish. The installation will confront coin-wishing as a subtle yet illicit expression of post-capitalist desire, explored through a tactile and temporal alteration of public space.
Saturday, 18 October
Exhibition Opening and Artist Talk with Jenine Marsh
Opening from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Artist talk at 2:30 p.m.
Saturday, 18 October
KWAG Art Bus from Toronto departing/returning from Mercer Union, a centre for contemporary art, 1286 Bloor St. W. PWYC - $10 donation suggested. Refreshments will be provided.
11:00 – 11:45 a.m.: Tour of Mercer Union's Fall Commission
11:45 a.m.: Bus departs from Mercer Union on St Clarens
1:00 p.m.: Estimated arrival at KWAG
2:30 p.m.: Artist Talk with Jenine Marsh
4:00 p.m.: Bus departs KWAG
5:30 p.m.: Estimated arrival at Mercer Union for disembarking
Jenine Marsh Jenine Marsh (b. 1984 Calgary CA; lives in Toronto CA) has exhibited her sculpture and installation work widely in galleries and institutions such as the Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art (2025); the Goldfarb Art Gallery, Toronto (2024); Ensemble, New York (2024); Prairie, Chicago (2024); Ashley, Berlin (2024); the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver (2024); Gianni Manhattan, Vienna (2023); Union Pacific, London (2023); Cooper Cole, Toronto (2023); Joe Project, Montreal (2023); Night Gallery, Los Angeles (2022); Essex Flowers, New York (2020); Franz Kaka, Toronto (2019); Centre Clark, Montreal (2019); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2019), Entrée Gallery, Bergen (2018), and Lulu, Mexico City (2015). She has served as artist in residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts (2009, 2010, and 2022), at AiR Bergen at USF Verftet, Bergen (2018); Rupert, Vilnius (2017); and the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT (2011). Marsh’s work has received funding from the Canada Council for the Arts, Partners in Art, the Chalmers Arts Fellowship, the Toronto Arts Council, and the Ontario Arts Council. Jenine received her BFA from the Alberta University of the Arts in 2007, and her MFA from the University of Guelph in 2013. She is currently a doctoral candidate at York University.
Artist Talks are sponsored by:
Supported by the Allan MacKay Curatorial Endowment Fund.
This exhibition is presented with the support of KWAG's Women for Women's Art.
The artist would like to thank the Canada Council for the Arts and Partners In Art for their support. 
Images:
Artwork courtesy of Jenine Marsh and Cooper Cole Gallery, photography by LF Documentation. Headshot courtesy of the artist.
