Calgary-born, Toronto-based artist Jenine Marsh has been named as the 2026 Canadian recipient of the Glenfiddich Artists in Residence Program.
The Glenfiddich Artists in Residence Program has been offering Canadian artists the chance to create and explore in the Scottish Highlands for a three-month summer residency for 20 years. The residency is all-inclusive and all expenses paid, and is valued at over $28,000 CAD, recognizing bold creative vision.
“Glenfiddich in Canada is honoured to continue fostering Canadian artists and the arts community through the Glenfiddich Artists in Residence Program,” comments Heidi Madar, Glenfiddich Brand Manager in a statement. “We are delighted to grant Jenine Marsh this prestigious opportunity in its 20th year and look forward to viewing the pieces she creates during her residency.”
In order to be selected, artists are required to complete an application that includes a proposal for an artistic work that is influenced directly by the Glenfiddich Distillery grounds, its processes, history, and natural environment.
The program receives hundreds of applications each year. Artists from across the world travel to Dufftown in the Scottish Highlands, and are given the resources to complete their original projects while they live on the Glenfiddich grounds. The resulting art works are displayed at an exhibition, and continue to be on view at the distillery for years afterwards.
Jenine was chosen from a pool of more than 200 Canadian applicants. She is represented by Cooper Cole Gallery.
Marsh’s project at Glenfiddich will reflect on on the cultural and symbolic significance of water at the distilling site.
The Glenfiddich Distillery has drawn from a single water source since 1887 — the Robbie Dhu Spring. It is located in the Conval hills to the west of the distillery grounds, and Marsh’s completed sculpture will be located close to the Robbie Dhu Spring site.
“I am completely overjoyed to be the Canadian Artist in Residence for 2026,” comments Jenine Marsh. “This summer I will bring my practice to Dufftown for site-specific research situated at the springhead of the Robbie Dhu, where I will explore the common-place ritual of coin-wishing and its historic roots in Celtic water worship. Engaging in themes of value, agency and hope within capitalism, my work will be aimed towards the production of a permanent public sculptural artwork.”
A native of Calgary, Alberta, Jenine Marsh earned a BFA at the Alberta University of the Arts in that city. She continued her studies at the University of Guelph, where she earned an MFA degree. She is currently a PhD candidate at York University in Toronto. In addition to her artistic work, she is a sessional lecturer at the University of Toronto’s John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design.
She has exhibited her sculpture and installation work widely across North America, including shows in institutions such as the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (2025); Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art (2025); the Goldfarb Art Gallery, Toronto (2024); Ensemble, New York (2024); Prairie, Chicago (2024); Ashley, Berlin (2024); the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver (2024); Gianni Manhattan, Vienna (2023); Union Pacific, London (2023); Cooper Cole, Toronto (2023); Joe Project, Montreal (2023); Night Gallery, Los Angeles (2022); Essex Flowers, New York (2020); Franz Kaka, Toronto (2019); Centre Clark, Montreal (2019); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2019), Entrée Gallery, Bergen (2018), and Lulu, Mexico City (2015).
She has served as an artist in residence at the Banff Centre, along with Sagrada Mercancía in Santiago Chile, AiR Bergen at USF Verftet, Bergen, Rupert in Vilnius, and the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson.
Jenine’s sculptures and installations explore themes that include mortality, value, and agency. She has often used elements such as coins, casts of hands, purses, and flowers, among other materials, which she manipulates in various ways.
The Artists in Residence program is celebrating its 25th anniversary globally, and its 20th anniversary in Canada.
Glenfiddich is the world’s most awarded single malt Scotch whisky, headquartered in Dufftown, Scotland, where the organization was founded by William Grant in 1887. today, it is run by the fifth generation of the Grant family.
Applications for the 2027 Glenfiddich Artists in Residence Program are scheduled to open in December 2026. Stay tuned…
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