Jessie Demers is an artist, independent curator and arts administrator living on lək̓ʷəŋən and WSANEC territory in Victoria, BC. She holds a BFA from NSCAD University (Halifax) and a BEd from the University of British Columbia (Vancouver). Demers has worked in the arts sector for over twenty years, including five years as Curator at the Nelson Museum, Archives and Gallery, and ten years as Programmer I - Visual Arts with the District of Saanich. 

Demers has been engaged in environmental activism for over 35 years. During the Fairy Creek blockades, from 2021-2022, she curated the Eden Grove Artist in Residence Program which preceded two exhibitions: Last Stand - Ancient Forests, Collective Action at Fortune Gallery, and Still Standing - Ancient Forest Futures at UVic’s Legacy Gallery. In 2022 she was awarded the Witness Legacy Award for Social Purpose and Responsibility Through Art at the Greater Victoria Regional Arts Awards. Later that year, Demers returned to her studio practice, showing her work in several regional group exhibitions. In 2024 she completed an artist residency at Joya AiR in Spain and in 2025 in Wells, BC with Broken Forests - Fireweed. In 2024 she formed the Adoptee Artists Collective, and the group will be having their first exhibition Into the Fold at Xchanges Gallery in Victoria in April 2026.