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| A colour photo of a white, non-binary person with medium length brown hair, round glasses, ear plugs around their neck, a short sleeve stripped black shirt with a black tank top underneath. They are in a ceramics studio, assembling clay objects with rocks and pine cones. Two tables next to them; one with cyanotypes and the other one with ceramic tiles. |
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Jules Dufresne (they/them) is a neurodivergent multidisciplinary artist from the unceded territory of Nitaskinan, Québec. They studied theatre and visual arts in Minsk (Belarus), Trois-Rivières (Québec), and Bengaluru (India). They graduated in 2026 with Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Art and Media at OCAD University, Toronto, where they explored the impact of digital spaces on neurodivergent individuals through an autoethnographic approach. They have presented their work at the RIPA inter-university meeting (Montréal, QC), at Le Lieu, Centre en Art Actuel (Québec City, QC), at Open Studio (Toronto, ON), and at the Xpace Cultural Centre (Toronto, ON).
Jules Dufresne
Jules Dufresne (they/them) is a neurodivergent multidisciplinary artist from the unceded territory of Nitaskinan, Québec. They studied theatre and visual arts in Minsk (Belarus), Trois-Rivières (Québec), and Bengaluru (India). They graduated in 2026 with Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Art and Media at OCAD University, Toronto, where they explored the impact of digital spaces on neurodivergent individuals through an autoethnographic approach. They have presented their work at the RIPA inter-university meeting (Montréal, QC), at Le Lieu, Centre en Art Actuel (Québec City, QC), at Open Studio (Toronto, ON), and at the Xpace Cultural Centre (Toronto, ON).
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PhD student in Arts Education, Concordia University
MFA in Interdisciplinary Art, Media and Design, OCAD University, 2026
julesdufresne.com/
2026• Proofs and process, installation, Open Studio vitrines, Toronto, ON • Unsilenced Stories: Art as Witness in Health Research, Canadian Association for Health Humanities (CAHH), digital archive. https://www.cahh.ca/archive/2026/5/4/et-jai-failli-pleurer-jules-dufresne
2025• Penup! () pendown! (), creative coding group exhibition, Centre for Culture and Technology (UofT), ON • Files and Folders, installation in group exhibition, Xpace Culture Centre, Toronto, ON • Et j'ai failli pleuré, installation in group exhibition, Great Hall, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
2024• Files and folders, installation in group exhibition, Grad Gallery, Toronto, ON
2023• Sitting in silence, installation in group exhibition, Open Space Gallery, Toronto, ON
2022• Comment ne pas avoir de crise existentielle, spoken word performance, Noël dans l'Camping, QC • Tapikwan Sipi la rivière de l’enfilée d’aiguille, poet, Galerie d'Art du Parc, QC
2021• Carte blanche by the collective LUNES, poet, event by OFF-FPTR, Trois-Rivières
2020• Tout tremble, performance at La nuit des Idées by L’Institut Français, Galerie R3, QC 2019• Passion Flakie, Come and Save me, performance, Le lieu, QC • Jeu 11:57, video performance screening at Le Long Week-End du Court, QC, and at Home-Sweet-Home Gallery, India 2017• Amour et Spaghetti, "Cossins Poétiques et Patentes à Gosse", FIPTR, Atelier Silex, QV