Jason Salavon

b. 1970, Indianapolis, IN
 
 
 
     
Jason Salavon, Narrative Frame (Illuminated Manuscripts 4), 2019
archival pigment print, ed. 5, 17-1/2 x 13-1/2 inches
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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    Jason Salavon (born 1970, Indianapolis, IN) received a BA in art and computer science from the University of Texas at Austin (1993) and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1997). Working at the intersection of art, information technology, and daily life, Salavon assembles data-sets from mass-culture sources and, using self-authored software, reimagines them as visually arresting prints, videos, and new media installations.

Salavon has exhibited his work internationally for the last twenty years, including recent solo exhibitions at Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2016); the Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI (2016); TAI Modern, Santa Fe, NM (2016); and the Public Trust, Dallas, TX (2016). In collaboration with Microsoft Research, where he was a Visiting Artist in 2014, he exhibited at the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (2015). His digital cave (2010), a special commission for the exhibition "Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan", traveled to museums in San Diego, CA; Washington, D.C.; Dallas, TX; and Chicago, IL (2010-12).

His work is included in the public collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Salavon lives and works in Chicago, IL, where he is Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Arts and the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago, IL.


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