https://jpking.ca/contact daily 0.75 2025-05-22 https://jpking.ca/about daily 0.75 2026-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df1224a1da5a5795eeafae7/1584934576978-D803U3TWRKO0IEC66NQE/JP+King+Portraits+%28195+of+300%29May+12%2C+2016-Edit.jpg About - JP King is an artist-educator with a special interest in discard culture, creative systems, and visual communication. He currently teaches within the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto, in addition to the Integrated Design program at the Haliburton School of Art + Design. In 2016, the Canada Council for the Arts nominated King for a Governor General's Innovation Award based on his research about how waste shapes the world. Lives in Toronto. Born in 1985. https://jpking.ca/research daily 1.0 2020-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df1224a1da5a5795eeafae7/1578082801481-Z86Q514MEZ6VLETGG7MG/jpking_creativeprocess.jpg Research https://jpking.ca/in-the-media daily 0.75 2020-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df1224a1da5a5795eeafae7/1578082404625-ZEO76KK9H5JRLEUYYW78/JP%2BKing%2B-%2BFilming%2BSolid%2BWaste.jpg Coverage - CBC Arts “ The artists who work in literal dumps and the places that pay them to do it” Article by Leah Collins. CBC Arts. August 23, 2019. “Oh, they love trash! What happens when you give artists the key to the city sanitation department?” https://jpking.ca/splash-page daily 0.75 2020-03-13 https://jpking.ca/discard-culture daily 0.75 2020-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df1224a1da5a5795eeafae7/1584914609568-GY5J1XS68L7M3BZFZNOQ/King_Martindale_South-End-Corridor-North-Wall-ONE-WEB.jpg Discard Culture Our Desires Fail Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df1224a1da5a5795eeafae7/1584914844518-J48MTTL2PM2QJFIEK7SH/City+of+Toronto+Commissioner+Street+Transfer+Station Discard Culture SWMS-AiR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df1224a1da5a5795eeafae7/1584915382415-6UODD03DYCDUFW78UZ14/There+is+No+Away+-+Sean+Martindale%2C+Nuit+Blanche+2015 Discard Culture There is No Away https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df1224a1da5a5795eeafae7/1584927465891-WQHFACLZCXEZD4QY69X4/Solid%2BWaste%2B-%2BPresentation-4.jpg Discard Culture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df1224a1da5a5795eeafae7/1592958105528-LJ31D0JF4PEM1GN6JXHN/Materialists-Anonymous-Jp-King-Animated.gif Discard Culture https://jpking.ca/our-desires-fail-us daily 0.75 2020-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df1224a1da5a5795eeafae7/1584916246983-PPQSACL7YKMDU4266452/King_Martindale_East-Overhead-Billboard_WEB.jpg Our Desires Fail Us - Photo Series & Exhibition: With Sean Martindale. Harbourfront Centre, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df1224a1da5a5795eeafae7/1584916615597-RIF4O2OE7KT5VII06CYL/Our+Desires+Fail+Us+-+Martindale+King-14.jpg Our Desires Fail Us Our Desires Fail Us, JP King & Sean Martindale, Harbourfront Centre, Parking Pavilion West Face, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df1224a1da5a5795eeafae7/1584916861921-JQ4QOG7QFMTUHXPTC45Q/King_Martindale_Parking-Pavillion-North-WEB.jpg Our Desires Fail Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df1224a1da5a5795eeafae7/1584916743062-A9PCJOSQOUQL5HM5KP1V/Our+Desires+Fail+Us+-+Martindale+King-12.jpg Our Desires Fail Us Our Desires Fail Us, JP King & Sean Martindale, Harbourfront Centre, East Entrance, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df1224a1da5a5795eeafae7/1584917242107-UPLQ41UOHMYOLOSRVND3/King_Martindale_Parking-Pavillion-East-WEB.jpg Our Desires Fail Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df1224a1da5a5795eeafae7/1584917169023-0CQT36AEGYG39LQWBDE0/King_Martindale_South-End-Corridor-North-Wall-Three-WEB.jpg Our Desires Fail Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df1224a1da5a5795eeafae7/1584917191966-9ICMRXHINMQXN821QJSJ/King_Martindale_South-End-Corridor-North-Wall-WEB.jpg Our Desires Fail Us https://jpking.ca/toronto-solid-waste-artists-in-residence daily 0.75 2020-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df1224a1da5a5795eeafae7/1584922950116-BB4Y3MAGFPJ6ICYTITYP/Solid+Waste+-+Presentation-29.jpg Toronto Solid Waste Artists-in-Residence - Artist Residency City of Toronto, Solid Waste Management Services, 2018-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df1224a1da5a5795eeafae7/1584933816213-CFAK2Q1N1APYST7ZWVLM/Our%2BDesires%2BFail%2BUs%2B-%2BMartindale%2BKing-16.jpg Toronto Solid Waste Artists-in-Residence https://jpking.ca/there-is-no-away daily 0.75 2020-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df1224a1da5a5795eeafae7/1584918927347-G4H73BNRO9AUU42U8IRU/THERE_IS_NO_AWAY_NB-5.jpg There is No Away - Installation + Multi-Channel Video Sean Martindale + JP King. Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto Nuit Blanche. 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df1224a1da5a5795eeafae7/1584919806063-ZAY98VUM6IM5YURMATLD/THERE_IS_NO_AWAY_NB-9.jpg There is No Away There is No Away, Sean Martindale. 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Creating a Municipal Artist Residency Program Look at that. In 2017, with Sean Martindale, I helped the City of Toronto's Solid Waste Department create and pilot an artist-in-residence program. This resulted in numerous public campaigns, presentations, and an address to City Council on the role of artists in the city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847765301-447UDK2L5WJTURLWTECI/image-asset.jpeg Landing Page - Isometric Risograph Calendar Such Nice Shapes. Since 2011, I've designed an annual Isometric Risograph Calendar. Using simple shapes and some combination of fluroscent pink, yellow, and blue, I've made something that is widely beloved and lives in homes and offices around the world. It has been all over, most notably at the MoMA Design Store. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847766023-TYF5QZ96XIXRZPA4EGWZ/image-asset.jpeg Landing Page - My Education I'm always learning. I have a master's degree in interdisciplinary art, media, and design and a BA in creative writing. I have trained as a Gestalt psychotherapist and a Transition Design facilitator. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, I started and stopped a PhD in environmental education. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847766023-TYF5QZ96XIXRZPA4EGWZ/image-asset.jpeg Landing Page - Public Speaking I like to talk. I give public presentations about my research, projects, and subjects of interest. My entertaining and relational presentation style is rooted in collage, typography, and storytelling. I gather, assemble, and sequence media to help my audience think differently about familiar subjects. My visual pedagogy is built upon techniques of visual communication, defamiliarization, juxtaposition, thought experiments, and diagrammatic explanation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847766023-TYF5QZ96XIXRZPA4EGWZ/image-asset.jpeg Landing Page - I love diagrams. Mmm… Arrows. I love making diagrams, flowcharts, and mind maps. From preliminary development to public presentation, spatial and visual thinking is central to much of what I do. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847760973-X5KYS9GW8IKNKKBI4PH1/image-asset.jpeg Landing Page - Making is thinking. I believe that making is a form of thinking, and that creative inquiry occurs within a systematic framework. We use what we know and understand to investigate what we do not. An experiential process is the key to learning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847763854-OGJIPZXLM6WQ3QJW4MYL/image-asset.jpeg Landing Page - Modular Synthesis & Electronic Music Noise to my ears. Currently, I am obsessed with sound. For the past few years, I have been making ambient and environmental music with a modular synthesizer. I am endlessly fascinated by tone, timbre, vibration, harmony, and the systems thinking that comes with electronic synthesis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847762019-6FVSEHEZWIGMCJ5QASPI/image-asset.jpeg Landing Page - Welcome aboard Spaceship Earth I’m deeply concerned. I am deeply concerned about the human contamination of nature, global society's overshoot of Earth's carrying capacity, the role of plastic in the more-than-human world, the desire-driven identity central to consumer society, and the multispecies entanglements affected by all of human activity. I am developing a number of projects in this area. Stay tuned. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847766023-TYF5QZ96XIXRZPA4EGWZ/image-asset.jpeg Landing Page - Kirsten McCrea My partner in crime. I'm married to Kirsten McCrea, an incredibly creative artist, mural painter, and entrepreneur. She founded Papirmass in 2009. She inspires and challenges me every day. Sometimes we collaborate on paper but we're always present in one another's work. https://jpking.ca/listen daily 0.75 2021-11-14 https://jpking.ca/arc3715-dc-2022-reading-list daily 0.75 2022-09-20 https://jpking.ca/contact-1 daily 0.75 2025-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce435d6bea1ed00016ba287/1558964652247-5MWXNMFZVOPGE4TY6U2Q/MHeiderich_ReflexionenZwei-05-copy.jpg Contact