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Jason Lazarus: Public_Public_Address

Thu Oct 01, 2020 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Online

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Jason Lazarus is an artist exploring vision and visibility.  His work includes a range of fluid methodologies: original, found and appropriated images, text-as-image, animated GIFs, photo-derived sculptures made collaboratively with the public, pigment-inks-as-image, live archives, LED light images, and public submission repositories among others. This expanded photographic practice seeks new approaches of inquiry, embodiment, and bearing witness through both individual and collective research and image production. 

Lazarus organizes PDF-OBJECTS, an international nomadic sculpture library featuring artist-selected readings sculpturally paired with everyday objects; Coco Hunday, an alternative exhibition space in Tampa, FL providing solo exhibitions, artist-lectures, and new scholarship on emerging and mid-career artists; is a Co-Founder of #firstdayfirstimage, which asks artist-educators to actively rethink and broadcast their curricula starting with the first image shown to students on the first day of class; and is Co-Founder of Chicago Artist Writers, a platform that invites artists and art workers to write traditional and experimental criticism with a focus on under-represented arts programming in Chicago. 

Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Art and Art History at the University of South Florida. 

Selected exhibition venues include SF MOMA, Queens Museum of Art, MASS MoCA, MCA Chicago, George Eastman Museum, Ryan Lee Gallery NYC, Art Institute of Chicago, High Museum of Art, Renaissance Society, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Exgirlfriend Gallery Berlin, Contemporary Jewish Museum SF, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Columbia University, Stadtgalerie Kiel 9,  Kunstlerhaus Behanien Berlin, Gallery 400, Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts Belgium,  and the Museum of Contemporary Photography. 

His work has been covered in outlets including Artforum, Frieze, Hyperallergic, The Guardian, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and National Public Radio and written about by Martha Rosler, Hamza Walker, Abigail Solomon Godeau, Christopher Knight, Carment Winant, and Michelle Grabner among many others. 

Public lectures include Yale University, International Center of Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; George Eastman Museum, California College of the Arts, Columbia University (NYC), the Art Institute of Chicago, University of California Berkeley, and Artists/Designs/Citizen (US Pavilion, 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale) among many others. 

Selected permanent collections include the Art Institute of Chicago, SFMOMA, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, High Museum of Art, and Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago. See more at www.jasonlazarus.com.

For the most up to date information, visit artsdesign.berkeley.edu.