JASON SALAVON

Born 1970


EDUCATION

1997
Master of Fine Arts, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1993
Bachelor of Arts, The University of Texas at Austin

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2002
The Church of Endless Elaborate Variation, Howard House, Seattle
Art Statements, Art 33 Basel, The Project, Basel, Switzerland
Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago (November 2002)
University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara

2001
Everything, All At Once, The Project, New York
Art Chicago 2001, The Project & Peter Miller Gallery, Project Room Invitational, Chicago
Standard and Deviant Distributions, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago
Art Miami 2001, Solo booth curated by Debra Singer, The Project, Miami, FL
Tactics for Realizing Alternate Arrangements, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA

1999
Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
The Domestic State Machine #1, Peter Miller Gallery, Project Space, Chicago

1998
The Jason Salavon Show, Video and Electronic Project Room, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH
Stacked and Sorted, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago

1997
Ten in One Gallery, Project Space, Chicago

1993
Closeout, The New Gallery, Austin, TX

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2002
New Directions 3: Contemporary Selections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Time Framed, Dutch National Foto Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Shaping Stories, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
Here and Now, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago (Fall 2002)
Self-Portraits from the Bill and Ruth True Collection, Wright Exhibition Space, Seattle
Portraits of the Past and Present by Illinois Artists, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL (traveling)
The Same Thing We Do Every Night, The Project, Los Angeles (Fall 2002)
Super-Heroes, Galerie Edward Mitterand, Geneva, Switzerland
Tech Support, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
Skinjob, InterAccess Gallery, Toronto, Canada (Fall 2002)
Art Chicago 2002, The Project & Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago
For Skin, Generous Miracles Gallery, New York
Sculpture in Chicago Now, Part II, Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago
Digitalis, Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest, IL
Blueblood/Blue Collar, Heaven Gallery, Chicago
New Narratives, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago

2001
BitStreams: Art in the Digital Age, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Painting/Not Painting, White Columns, New York
Revolutions per Minute, Gallery 400, University of Chicago at Chicago
BYTE-BI-BYTE, Howard House, Seattle
:::Interface:Exploring Possibilities:::, Fassbender van Straaten Gallery, Chicago
Art Chicago 2001, Navy Pier, The Project & Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago
magnifiedistortions, City Gallery at Chastain, Atlanta, GA (two-person show with Nina Levy)
Time Arts Exhibition, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL (two-person show with Mara Zoltners)
Chicago and Vicinity, Klein Art Works, Chicago

2000
Art Cologne, Koln Messe, The Project, Cologne, Germany
Somewhat Corrupt, Plaza Gallery, Fordham University, New York
Art Chicago 2000, Navy Pier, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago

1999
Thirty-One Shopping Days ‘Til...? American Pop Culture At the End of the Millennium,
Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL (catalogue, CD-ROM)
Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: Superheroes in Contemporary Art, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH

1998
Rotating Exhibit, Robert Fitzpatrick Home, Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Art Chicago 1998, Navy Pier, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago
Mendel’s Dreams, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago

1997
New Work by Gallery Artists, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago
Art Chicago 1997, Navy Pier, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago
International Symposium on Electronic Art, juried exhibition, Chicago
MFA Exhibition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1995
Cheap Art, Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1993
Juried Student Show, Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin
Beyond Paper: Contemporary Printmakers, Franklin Federal Building, Austin

1992
Juried Student Show, Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin

1991
Juried Student Show, Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin

HONORS & AWARDS

2002
Illinois Arts Council Fellowship
Veterans Monument for Soldier Field – Commission Finalist

2001
Creative Capital Foundation - 2nd round Competitive Funding Award

2000
Creative Capital Foundation Grant

1997
James Nelson Raymond Fellowship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1993
Merit Scholarship in Transmedia, University of Texas


VISITING LECTURES

2002
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL – lecture and graduate critiques
University of California at Santa Barbara – lecture and graduate critiques
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA -- lecture

2001
School of the Art Institute of Chicago – lecture

1999
College of DuPage, Glen Elyn, IL – lecture


SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, CO
Peter Norton, Santa Monica, CA
Barbara Gladstone, New York, NY
Leonardo DiCaprio, Los Angeles
Gillian Anderson, London, England
Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, London, England
Michael Lynne, New York
Jeffrey Soros, Los Angeles
Bill and Ruth True, Seattle
Philip Morris Corporation, New York
The Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH
Refco, Chicago
Bank One, Chicago
Playboy Enterprises International, Chicago
Cole-Taylor Bank, Wheeling, IL
The University of Chicago at Chicago
City of Chicago


SELECTED ARTICLES, REVIEWS & PUBLICATIONS

2002
Hall, Emily, "GORGEOUS INFORMATION Playboy, the Golem, and Other Fresh Abstractions", The Stranger, October 3, page 36.
Fefer, Mark D, "Five picks for fall: The Digital Coolie" Seattle Weekly, September 5, 2002.
Anderson, Jason, "Now playing at a gallery near you," National Post, August 31, 2002.
Huebner, Jeff, "Artful Dodge," Chicago Reader, August 2, 2002.
Hackett, Regina, "Artists close the gap between life and art," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 4, 2002
Hill, Joe, review, Art in America, June 2002.
Woodard, Josef, review, Artweek, Vol. 33 Issue 3, April 2002.
Harris, Jane, review, art/text, No. 76. Spring, 2002.
Klaasmeyer, Kelly, Law of Averages, Houston Press, April 11, 2002.
Kutner, Janet, "FotoFest review," The Dallas Morning News, March 17, 2002.
Woodard, Josef, review, Santa Barbara News Press, March 1, 2002.
Baker, Michael J., "Modern, Modern Art," digital source. Q1, 2002.
Dunajewski, Katarzyna, "Sztuka, Technologia, i Uduchownienie," POLACYwCHICAGO. February 20, 2002.
Salavon, Jason, cover art, Rotterdam International Film Festival, 4 publications. January/February, 2002.
Trainor, James, review. Tema Celeste, No. 89. January/February 2002.
... Interview. Lab71, www.lab71.org. January 2002.
Hackett, Regina, "Fine narrative thread," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 18, 2002.
Cassidy, Victor, "Prairie Smoke," Artnet.com, January 3, 2002.

2001
Hall, Emily, “Good Stories,” The Stranger, Vol. 11 No. 13, Dec. 13-Dec. 19, 2001.
Moody, Tom, “Palo Alto Dreamin’,” Art Papers, November/December 2001.
Hirsch, Faye, “Working Proof,” Art On Paper, September/October 2001.
Zdanovics, Olga, Review, “New Art Examiner,” September/October 2001.
Salavon, Jason, “The Top Grossing Film of All Time, 1 x 1,” Film Comment, September/October 2001.
Pollack, Barbara, “Back to the Future with BitStreams,” Art in America, September 2001.
Wiens, Ann, “The Message is the Medium,” Chicago Social, September 2001.
Saltz, Lizzie Zucker, “Nina Levy & Jason Salavon,” Art Papers, July/August 2001.
Speh, Scott, Hot Commodities, No. 7, Late Summer 2001.
Yood, James, Review, Artforum, Summer 2001.
Richard, Francis, “An Orchid in the Land of Technology,” FYI, Summer 2001.
Karp, Josh, “Playing Picasso with Pixels,” E*Prairie.com, June 25,2001.
Blume, Harvey, “Unfinished Work,” The American Prospect, vol. 12 no. 11, June 18, 2001.
Velez, Pedro, “Best of Art Chicago 2001,” F-ing Good Art, No. 8, June 15, 2001.
Atkins, Robert, “Surface Pleasures,” ArtByte, May/June, 2001.
Strom, David, “Blame it all on the green ketchup,” Web Informant #249, May 21, 2001.
Welch, Roger, “Digital Art Enters a New Dimension,” San Antonio Express-News, May 20, 2001.
Thorson, Alice, “Nothing is Real: Digital Art Takes You Where There’s No There There,” The Kansas City Star, May 13, 2001.
Vogel, Carol, “Inside Art,” The New York Times, May 4, 2001.
Leitsinger, Miranda, “Digital Technology Turns Artistic,” Associated Press, May 2, 2001.
Saltz, Jerry, “Byte Lite,” Village Voice, May 1, 2001.
Wilk, Deborah, “Art By the Numbers,” Chicago Magazine, May 2001.
Chua, Lawrence, “Jason Salavon,” Jalouse, May 2001.
Artner, Alan, “From the Easel to the Hard Drive,” Chicago Tribune, April 15, 2001.
Stein, Lisa, “Bits and bytes yield brilliant works of art,” CityTalk, April 13, 2001.
Hawkins, Margaret, “Finding Meaning in the Mundane,” Chicago Sun-Times, April 13, 2001.
Budick, Ariella, “Digital Expression,” Newsday, April 8, 2001.
Rosenbaum, Lee, “Tech Art: Boom or Bust?” The Wall Street Journal, April 6, 2001.
Winship, Frederick M., “Can Technology Create Art?” UPI, April 5, 2001.
Galloway, Alex, “Conversions,” Rhizome.org, March 31, 2001.
Kimmelman, Michael, “BitStreams and Data Dynamics: Creativity, Digitally Remastered,”
The New York Times, March 23, 2001.
Chua, Lawrence, “Being Digital,” Vogue Hommes International, Spring/Summer 2001
Singer, Debra, “Debra Singer selects Jason Salavon,” Art Miami 2001 Catalogue, January 2001.
Feaster, Felicia, “Altered Reality,” Creative Loafing Atlanta, February 17, 2001.
Singer, Debra, “Debra Singer selects Jason Salavon,” Art Miami 2001 Catalogue, January 2001.
Falkenstein, Michelle, “Capital Gains,” ARTnews, January 2001.
Ullrich, Polly, “Who is the Next Potter Palmer?,” New Art Examiner, July/August 2000.
Artner, Alan, “Art Chicago 2000,” Chicago Tribune, May 14, 2000.
Neuhoff, Tony, “Thirty-One Shopping Days ‘Til...? American Pop Culture At the End of the Millennium,”New
Art Examiner, April 2000.
... Audio piece “The Song of the Century” receives significant airplay on freeform radio pioneer
WFMU, New York, NY, Winter 2000.
Salavon, Jason, “Celebrating/nullifying the Individual,” CIRCA: Irish and International Contemporary Visual Culture, #90 Winter 1999-2000.

1999
Artner, Alan, “Best Bets,” Chicago Tribune, June 18, 1999.
Stein, Lisa, “A quick fix,” Chicago Tribune, June, 11, 1999.
Grabner, Michelle, exhibition catalogue essay. Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL,
Summer 1999.
Salavon, Jason, cover art. Notre Dame Review, Number 8, Summer 1999.
Jablonski, Ray, “Art imitates superheroes,” Bedford Sun Banner, Beachwood, OH, February 25, 1999,
and Sun Messenger, South Euclid, OH, March 18, 1999.
Yannopoulos, Charles, “Look! Up on the Wall!” The Scene, Cleveland, OH, 4 March 1999.
Snodgrass, Susan, “Jason Salavon at Peter Miller,” Art in America, March 1999.
Weinstein, Michael, “Jason Salavon,” New Art Examiner, February 1999.
Snodgrass, Susan, “Letter from Chicago,” C, International Contemporary Art, February-April 1999.

1998
Artner, Alan, “Digital Exhibit Offers Viewers a Pointed Shoot,” Chicago Tribune, November 26, 1998.
Camper, Fred, “Shattered Ideals,” Chicago Reader, November 20, 1998.
Weinstein, Michael, “5 Shows to See Now” and “Tip of the Week,” New City, November 19, 1998.
Samuelsen, Grant, “Jason Salavon,” projector, October 1998: Issue 3.
Bulka, Michael, “Chicago’s Last Five Minutes of Art History: There’s Something Funny Going On,”
New Art Examiner, October 1998.
... “Figure 1 (Every Playboy Centerfold 1988-1997),” Playboy Online, Fall/Winter 1998.
Holg, Garrett, “Industrious Evolution,” ARTnews, April 1998.


RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

1997-2001
Instructor, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Classes include Digital Installation, Experimental Computer Programming, and 3D Computer Animation.

1999
Participant, ICC Biennale, Tokyo, Japan. Lead programmer, Eduardo Kac’s I installation.

1995-2001
Consulting digital artist and programmer. Extensive work in the video game industry for clients including Viacom New Media and Midway Games.