Jacques worked at the
Art Gallery of Ontario for a number of years, holding positions including Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art and Acting Curator of Canadian Art. She was the Director of Programming at the Centre for Art Tapes in
Halifax, Nova Scotia from 2002 to 2004. At the AGGV, she curated exhibitions of the work of contemporary artists including
Carol Sawyer, Rodney Sayers and Emily Luce, Gwen MacGregor, and Hiraki Sawa, among others; and co-curated retrospective exhibitions of the work of the Canadian artists
Anna Banana and
Jock Macdonald. In the 2019 exhibition
Unformable Things, she examined the work of
Emily Carr alongside her Canadian contemporaries. Jacques has taught writing and curatorial topics at institutions including
NSCAD University, the
University of Toronto Mississauga, and
OCAD University. She has also served on the board of numerous visual art organizations including
Vtape, the
Feminist Art Gallery and
Mercer Union. In 2019, she was appointed as the inaugural vice-president, inclusion and outreach, of the
Association of Art Museum Curators, a New York-based group that supports and promotes curatorial work around the world. In 2021, she was one of the participants in
John Greyson's experimental short documentary film
International Dawn Chorus Day. == Critical and curatorial writing ==