

Biographie
La liste de ses expositions et projets comprend Odd Places (NY, NY), International Polar Year Conference (Oslo, Norvège), The Painting Center (NY, NY), Printed Matter (NY, NY), Museum of Contemporary Art (Detroit, MI), Arts House (Melbourne, Australie) and Chiesa di San Lorenzo (Florence, Italie). Elle était artiste résidente à la Albers Foundation à Bethany, CT; au NES à Skagaströnd, Iceland; au CAMAC Centre of Art, Science Technology en France; et avec Rosenclaire en Italie. Elle a été nominée pour la bourse de Rema Hort Mann.
Elle enseigne actuellement au Metropolitan Museum of Art, et elle a donné des conférences à Columbia University, Concordia University, OCAD University, et à l’Institut des arts à Florence en Italie. Son travail est soutenu par le Conseil des arts du Canada et ses œuvres se trouvent dans les collections du Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, de la Collection Prêt d’Oeuvres d’Art, de la Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ), Montréal (QC), de la Bank of Montréal, Toronto et du Consulat Général de Monaco, Montréal.
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On the twenty-second of December, 1909, we reached the South Pole… Nothing of any kind marked the dreary whiteness. We discussed leaving some kind of mark or monument, a snow cairn, a tent pole and flag; but there seemed no particular reason to do so.
Jessica Houston
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Until It Gives Way
Jessica Houston
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Born of sight and memory
Jessica Houston
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All that week the blizzard wind pursued us like a pack of mad dogs... I wished we had not gone to the Pole. I think I wish it even now.
Jessica Houston
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We were by then all a little crazy with exhaustion and the great altitude twelve thousand feet—and the cold and the wind blowing luminous circles and crosses surrounding the suns, for often there were three or four suns in the sky, up there…
Jessica Houston
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We were in for one severe shock - Teresa was pregnant…on February 14th, she went into labor. ‘I shall name her Rosa—Rosa del Sur,’ Rose of the South
Jessica Houston
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Step by step we went…We were fifteen days on the glacier…at every day’s advance more great, nameless peaks came into view…We gave names to these peaks, not very seriously, since we did not expect our discoveries to come to the attention of geographers.
Jessica Houston
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The Yelcho anchored and we went ashore in a ship’s boat.
Jessica Houston
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