Jessica Berger: Lost & Found
October 29–December 13, 2025
Student Gallery
Lost & Found is a photographic and collage-based exploration of girlhood as a fluid and evolving experience, shaped by memory, identity, and community. Drawing from personal archives, family photo albums, and everyday ephemera, Jessica Berger reimagines childhood rituals through staged portraits and layered compositions that blend the nostalgic with the present day. Together these works reflect on the complexity of growing up, particularly for queer individuals navigating femininity on their own terms. By revisiting the past while embracing the uncertainty of the present, Berger and her collaborators reclaim girlhood as a site of agency, contradiction, and self-definition.
Jessica Berger, Smoke Break, inkjet print, 2024. Courtesy of the artist.
Artist Bio
Jessica Berger
Jessica Berger, a lens-based artist currently based in Toronto, explores themes of identity, memory, and connection in her practice. With a keen interest in experimental processes, collage, and portraiture, she navigates the intricate dynamics between the self, others, objects, and places. Through her work, she hopes to encourage viewers to reflect on their own experiences and relationships, both internal and external, while representing her subjects with care. Berger is a graduate of the Photography program, School of Image Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University.
