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Movement
Textile Art
Website
www.jasonvillegas.com
Name
Jason Villegas
Born
August 16, 1977 (age 46) (
1977-08-16
)
Houston, TX, United States
Known for
Fine Art, Textile Art, Sculpture, and Installation Art
Awards
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Studio
Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship
Education
Mason Gross School of the Arts (2007), University of Houston, Rutgers University
Jason Villegas (born August 16, 1977 in Houston, TX) is currently a New York City based contemporary artist. He has exhibited across the United States and internationally. Villegas' work utilizes a wide spectrum of mediums including sculpture, installation, painting, drawing, textile, video and performance. He has created his own artistic realm and visual language in which to explore concepts such as globalism, evolution, sexuality, cosmology, and consumerism. Motifs in Villegas' artworks include fashion logos, animal hybrids, weaponry, sales banners, clothing piles, anuses, cosmic debris, taxidermy, bear men, amorphous beasts, religious iconography, and party scenarios.
Jason Villegas was a part of the traveling group exhibition Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement, curated by Rita Gonzales, Howard Fox, and Chen Noriega. Beginning at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in 2008, the exhibit toured for two years including renowned spaces such as, the Tamayo Museum in Mexico City, El Museo del Barrio in New York City, the Phoenix Art Museum (PAM) in Arizona, Museo de Arte de Zappopan in Guadalajara, and the Museo Alameda in San Antonio. His selected work "Celestial Situation" (2006) featured a wall mural of painting and drawing depicting planetary spheres of cosmic clutter involving a video projection of animated 2D artworks onto a drawing of compressed entertainment electronics and media. The animation reveals a consumption cosmology of anuses, amorphous beasts, and a rotund man watching television.
Education
Villegas earned his MFA in 2007 at the Mason Gross School of Art at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ and his BFA in 2003 at the University of Houston in Texas.
2009
Perspectives: 167 Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX
Botched Simulacrum McClain Gallery Houston, TX
2008
Hunter Gatherer Receiver Gallery San Francisco, CA
Cosmic Slut Gescheidle Chicago, IL
Impish Animal Okay Mountain Austin, TX
2007
G*D Project Gallery New Brunswick, NJ
2006
Forever Developing Shrine Plush Dallas, TX
Repressed Burial Fantasy Okay Mountain Austin, TX
2005
Ultrabastard: marketing seminar Cactus Bra Space San Antonio, TX
