Curriculum Vitae
Jason Lazarus
b. 1975
Education
Columbia College, MFA in Photography, 2003
Awards/*Achievements*
Commission, Wright Image Series, 2007
Curator, “Concerning tomorrow..” Harold Center, Chicago, Sept. 2007
Artadia Grant award winner, 2006
Co-curator, “Are You Serious?” Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago 2006
Collection: Midwest Photographers Project, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago 2006
Harold Residency, Chesterhill, OH, 2006
Chicago New City “Breakout Artist of the Year”, 2005
CAAP Grant Panelist, Department of Cultural Affairs City of Chicago, 2005-2006
Special Assistance Grant, Illinois Art Council, 2004
Cocurator/Codirector, Jesus Chrysler Gallery, 2002-2004
Solo Shows
2007
Recordings, D3 Projects, Los Angeles, CA
People Buildings and Cars, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, VT
On Death and Dying, Gahlbery Gallery at College of Dupage, Glen Ellyn, IL
2006
12×12 New Artists/New Work, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2005
and then finally, I remembered, Bucket Rider Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004
Congenital: Grafts, International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, IL
2003
Union Art Space, Union Art Space, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
Group Exhibitions
2007
Bucket Rider, Inaugural, Chicago, IL
2006
What was Oprah’s Major?, Gallery 400-UIC, Temporary Allegiance Project, Chicago, IL
Eat Shit and Die, Silverstein Photography, New York, NY
Tiny Vices, Sutdio Bee, Tokoyo, Japan
Ways to See, IFIA, Hong Kong, China
Something to do with Failure, University of St. Francis , Joliet, IL
Biennial, Evanston Art Center, Chicago, IL
Mad, Bad, and Street Legal, Open End, Chicago, IL
Nova Art Fair, Chicago, IL
AQUA Art Fair, Miami, FL
2005
Photography Now, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL
FIAC International Art Fair (with Bucket Rider), Paris, France
Into the Woods, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
Photo National, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
SoHo Photo Gallery National Juried Competition, Art Center of Northern New Jersey, New Milford, NJ
The New Chicagoans, Iron Studios, Chicago, IL
Open, Fraction Workspace, Chicago
2004
Third Annual International Juried Art Exhibition Wegway, Toronto, Canada
Holiday Group Show , Bucket Rider Gallery, Chicago, IL
Art Chicago, (with Bucket Rider Gallery), Chicago, IL
Who Makes Self Portraits in 2004?, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
Gently With a Chainsaw, Open End, Chicago, IL
Movieside Invitational, Acme Art, Chciago, IL
2003
Shift, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
Annual Spring International Juried Exhibition, Soho 20 Gallery, New York, NY
Fractuted Lines, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL
Normal/Abnormail, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002
Population Density, Bucket Rider Gallery, Chicago, IL
_ Weisman Scholarship_, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Bibliography
Lancaster Museum of Art Photo National Exhibition Catalogue, 2005
Bridge Magazine, 2005
My Body Your Body, Columbia College 6 × 6 photobook series (cover)
Buffalomag, NYC, 2004