Jason Lazarus

  • 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, photo-derived sculptures made collaboratively with the public, live archives, and public submission repositories, among others. Lazarus incorporates the spectator, placing them in a unique position between knowing and not-knowing. Through simple photographs and almost-amateur constructions, Lazarus engages the viewer’s critical center to both contextualize the work within the tools of light and shadow, (punctuated by shape and color) and to situate themselves against the mystery of “what happened there/here?”

  • Exhibitions
  • Selected exhibition venues include SF MOMA, Art Institute of Chicago, MASS MoCA, MCA Chicago, George Eastman Museum, Queens Museum of Art, High Museum of Art, Renaissance Society, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Ryan Lee Gallery NYC, Exgirlfriend Gallery Berlin, Contemporary Jewish Museum SF, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Columbia University, Stadtgalerie Kiel 9,  Kunstlerhaus Behanien Berlin, Gallery 400, bitforms Gallery NYC, Blaffer Art Museum Houston, Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts Belgium, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography.
     
    His work has been covered in outlets including Artforum, The New York Times, Frieze, The Guardian, Hyperallergic, Los Angeles Times, NPR, The Washington Post, CNN, and Vice Magazine, and written about by a range of artists and scholars including Martha Rosler, Hamza Walker, Michelle Grabner, Abigail Solomon Godeau, Seph Rodney, Tina Kukielski, Darby English, Christopher Knight, Carmen Winant, Seph Rodney, Ariana Reines, and Lori Waxman among others.
     
     
    Selected permanent collections include the Whitney Museum of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, SFMOMA, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, High Museum of Art, Milwaukee Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, and the Ringling Museum of Art among others.
  • Works