Biography
Jason currently lives in Cedar City, Utah, where he works in the studio and is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Southern Utah University. Before this he was a practicing studio artist after finishing up a long term residency at the Archie Bray Foundation in 2003. He has been an artist-in-residence in places such as Vallauris, France, Kecskemet, Hungary and Jingdezhen, China. He received a BFA from Utah State University and an MFA from Penn State University. He has shown extensively nationally and internationally in places such as Jingdezhen, China, Paris, France and South Korea. His work is included in numerous museum collections such as the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, PA, the Fine Art Museum of San Francisco: de Young, The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C., The Arizona State University Art Museum Ceramic Research Center in Phoenix, AZ.
Artist Statement
My work is realized through ‘real life’ events and/or places I have experienced. I want to narrate how embodied experience can remind us of our vulnerability as mortal beings and that we are all a part of the same ecosystem ,we call nature. I like the connection of the body to my functional work. Our current culture promotes escape of our bodies in exchange for mediated technological simulations of experience, but it is the corporeal that links us to one-another and nature. No amount of technology can change that. Ironically, it is our creative ability that has aided our technological prowess and, at the same time, technology has influenced the perception that we are separate from nature. Behind every technological creation lie unintended consequences and underlying messages that have forever changed our perceptions, social interactions and relationship to nature. The way in which we perceive nature, speaks volumes of how we perceive ourselves and what it means to be human today.
More information about Jason can be found at: jasonwalkerceramics.com