Jerry Ropson is an artist, writer, educator and community organizer raised in the Ktaqmkuk (Newfoundland) outport re-settlement of Pollards Point. In acknowledging the settler and indigenous history of his community, he combines images, objects, text and narrative to focus an artistic practice within site-specific installation and performative storytelling. Having exhibited throughout Canada and abroad, he makes class- conscious work often seeking non-traditional sites and outcomes.

Ropson holds a BFA (2001) from Memorial University: Grenfell Campus, and an MFA (2009) in Studio Arts: Fibres and Material Practices from Concordia University. Ropson was listed for the Sobey Art Award in 2016 and 2018. He has been awarded grants from The Canada Council for the Arts, The New Brunswick Art Board, The Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and The Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council. He has participated in artist residencies at The Banff Centre, The Atlantic Centre for the Arts, St. Michael’s Printshop, Fogo Island Arts, NSCAD University, and Union House Arts. Ropson divides his time between rural communities in Ktaqmkuk, and Mi’kma’ki (Sackville, New Brunswick), where he teaches in the Department of Fine Arts at Mount Allison University.