Jaq Chartier (b. 1961) is an American visual artist. Her vibrant, alchemical artworks are investigations into how materials interact, colors shift, and affective experiences transport and transcend. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Esbjerg Art Museum, Bill & Melinda Gates Research Institute, Microsoft, The Allen Institute, Google Cloud Collection, and many other public and private collections. Chartier’s paintings have been featured in museums including the Bellevue Art Museum; the Berkeley Art Museum; the Frye Art Museum; Kunsthaus Center d’art, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland; Kunstmuseum, Ahlen, Germany; the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Arts; the Seattle Art Museum; Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland; and Esbjerg Art Museum, Denmark. Her paintings have been featured in books including “Molecular Aesthetics,” by Peter Weibel, “Art+Science Now,” by Stephen Wilson, and “Art in the Age of Technoscience: Genetic Engineering, Robotics, and Artificial Life in Contemporary Art,” by Ingeborg Reichle.