ABOUT
Kevin Jesuino is a Vancouver-based queer Portuguese-Canadian artist working at the intersection of performance, dance, photography, and video, all within the context of participatory, socially engaged, and community-based practices. His work has been shown in performance and visual art venues, as well as in parking lots, street corners, public parks, back alleys, and DIY spaces across Canada and abroad. He views himself as a performer, sculptor, and co-conspirator, collaborating with diverse groups ranging from scientists and city planners to youth and mixed-ability communities.
Through orchestrated participatory actions, he responds to urgent themes of unseen histories, climate change, and the urban connection to the natural world. Deeply rooted in the labour of decolonization and equitable liberation, he utilizes movement, performance, and public interventions to invite participants into a playful, embodied exploration of complex social questions.Beyond his solo practice, he is a dedicated artistic director and community facilitator. He currently serves as the Artistic Director of Theatre Terrific, Canada's oldest inclusive and accessibility-focused theatre company, and is the Co-Artistic Director of TRAction, a settler and Indigenous co-led collective of performance and socially engaged art practitioners.
SOLO EXHIBITION
Tender City: The Silent Slow Dance Project, Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Kelowna, Canada, May 22 - July 10, 2026
Tender City: The Silent Slow Dance Project, Theatre Outre/ Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Canada, April 23 - 30, 2026
GROUP EXHIBITION
Fire, Nuit Blanche Kelowna, Centre Culturel Francophone de L'Okanagan, Kelowna, Canada, October 2014
Calgary Commision on Urban Agriculture, Experiments in Public Art, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, Canada, March 23- April 22, 2017
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
Tender City: The Silent Slow Dance Project, Crimson Coast Dance/ Nanaimo Pride, Nanaimo, Canada, June 7- 13, 2026
The Nature of Us, Crimson Coast Dance/ Nanaimo Pride, Nanaimo, Canada June 5, 2026
Dance Floor Memoirs, Theatre Terrific, Vancouver, Canada, September 4 - 14, 2026
Outside, Theatre Terrific, Vancouver, Canada, September8 - 17, 2023
The Nature of Us, Mount Royal University Choral Association, Calgary, Canada October 19, 2022
Public Welcome, Arts for Social Change Network, Calgary, Canada, November 26, 2022
Procession for End Times: Information, TRAction, Calgary, Canada, September 19, 2021
Cruising at 30km/s and Attempting Not to Crash, Mile Zero Dance, Edmonton, Canada, February 12, 2021
Public Welcome, TRAction/ The GRAND Theatre, Calgary, Canada, August 15, 2021
Procession for End Times II: The Ice Shelf, TRAction, Calgary, Canada, September 19, 2020
The End, M:ST Performative Art Festival, Calgary, Canada, May 2020
What They Didn't Teach Us: The Sex Education Theatre Project, Swallow-a-Bicycle Theatre, Calgary, Canada, April 26 - 28, 2019
The End, Studio 303 Queer Performance Camp, Montreal, Canada, February 2020
Procession for End Times: The Trees, TRAction, Calgary, Canada, September 19, 2019
Finding Pessoa, Swallow-a-Bicycle Theatre, Calgary, Canada, November 2018
Being Together, Mile Zero Dance, Edmonton, Canada, February 2015
[Control], Ignite Festival of Emerging Artists, Calgary, Canada, June 18 - 20, 2015
Last Will & Testament, Rotary Centre for the Arts, Kelwona, Canada, September 2012
Narok: Burning Down The Big Top, Rain Dogs Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand, June 2009
SELECTED VIDEO/FILM SCREENINGS
The Zayknees: From the Planet Zan, Festival of Animated Objects, Calgary, Canada, March 2020
Fruit Fly Shadow, Pulp Fiction Cafe, Kelowna, Canada, March 2013
Erosion, TRAction/ Simon Fraser University SCA Lobby, Vancouver, Canada, April 2021
We Queer Animals, Theatre Outre, March 2021
Being Together: Part 1 Mile Zero Dance Front Gallery, Edmonton, Canada, February 2015
#SafeAB: Changing The Way We Treat Each Other, Antyx Community Arts, April 2015
TEACHING
Theatre Creation, Theatre Terrific, 2022 - Present
Inclusive Dance, All Bodies Dance, 2022 - Present
Art History (Seminar Instructor), Emily Carr University, 2022 - Present
History of Socially Engaged Art, Trico Changemaker Studio Fellowship, 2015 - Present
Devised Theatre, Alberta Playrights Network/ YouthRIOT Progam, 2015 - Present
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts, Simon Fraser University School of Contemporary Art, 2024
Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of British Columbia - Okanagan, 2013
Diploma, Theatre Arts, MacEwan University, 2004
AWARDS / GRANT / SCHOLARSHIPS
University of British Columbia, Faculty of Creative & Crticial Studies, Govenor General's Silver Medal, June 2012
Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art, Wearable Art Gala, Best Performance, December 2011
Bangkok Fringe Festival, Best Director, May 2008
