Jacqueline Beaumont is a designer, artist, and researcher whose work moves fluidly between biotechnology, sexuality, nature studies, and material culture. Called toward the transformative possibilities of fibre craft, biopolymer engineering, and immersive audiovisual media, her practice disrupts and reimagines the boundaries of body, culture, and power.

Affiliated with the Milieux Institute and the Concordia University Research Chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality, Jacqueline also collaborates with the Biointerface Lab in the Department of Material Engineering at McGill University, the Reseau Hexagram UQAM, the WPATH network and the Queering Nature Studies research group. Her research bridges speculative design and material experimentation, creating works that challenge traditional frameworks and embrace a speculative poetics of care.

Jacqueline’s work has been exhibited, lectured, and performed internationally at venues such as the Centre Pompidou, Mutek, Elektra, Pangée Gallery, MIT, EnsadLab, and the Canadian Cultural Centre Paris. In Feb 2026 she presented her first solo exhibition, titled, Panacea was presented at gallery Espace Transmission in Montreal. Her forthcoming publication, Speculative Non-wovens for Filtering Urban Air Pollution (Jarry + Beaumont), will appear in the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of World Textiles – Textile Futures, reflecting her commitment to shaping dialogues on sustainability and speculative futures.

Honored with numerous awards, including the IGEM Gold Medal (2019), the Eastern Bloc µPrize (2020), the Sarah Leaney Award in Ceramics and Fibers (2020), and the Nouvelle Garde Artistic Internship (2022),Canada Council of the Arts (2023), and a JUNO Nomination (2025). Academically she received a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Graduate Scholarship and the Concordia University Graduate Award (2023), supporting her Thesis-Creation Growing Affinity for her Individualized Master of Arts degree at Concordia University.