Jac Renée Bruneau is a screenwriter, critic, and National Magazine Award-winning editor based in New York City.
They were the Editor of C Magazine (est. 1984) from 2018-2022, and currently provide editorial consultation as well as substantive editing and proofreading services for art writing, criticism, and creative non-fiction. Send a note through the contact form to inquire.
Queer sensibilities, methodologies, and (il)logic permeate their practice, which is also variously engaged with: experimental moving image, docufiction, and ethnography; mourning, memory, and memorialization; parafiction, absurdity, and other productively deceptive / deceptively productive strategies.
They’ve held speaking engagements at University of Toronto, Ontario College of Art and Design University, Alberta University of the Arts, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and Western University, as well as at Plug In ICA, Or Gallery, Centre A, The New Gallery, Latitude 53, AKA Artist Run, among others. Select residencies, seminars, and workshops include the Flaherty Seminar (Queer World-Building), the Oberhausen Seminar, The Banff Centre's Critical Art Writing Ensemble, Canadian Art’s Editorial Residency, and the Images Festival Research Forum. They have given talks on exhibitions and projects by more than 20 artists, including but not limited to: Krista Belle Stewart, Jeremy Shaw, Meriç Algün, Stan Brakhage, Mike Nelson, Jürgen Partenheimer, Stefan Bruggeman, Grace Schwindt, Aurélien Froment, Tim Etchells, Kelly Richardson, Shimabuku, Shannon Bool, Kevin Schmidt, and Julia Dault. They’ve served as a screener for the 2024 New York Film Festival, a juror for The Islands Arts Writing Residency (a collaboration between Fogo Island Arts and Art Metropole), and have held various editorial, programming, and managerial positions at MICE Magazine, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), Vancouver International Film Festival, and New Forms Festival.
