Jason Lazarus

Born 1975 in Kansas City

 

‘My work utilizes the conceptual self-portrait as a mode of personal and cultural investigation. The sometimes visually disparate results beckon the viewer to actively navigate the place where, conceptually, the images coalesce. This place is not only filled with the personal and the public, but an uncertainty that seeks to empathize with an audience in the predicament of the same-shared world. This multi-faceted photo-practice embraces the pathos of the mundane and the marked event.’

 

Recent exhibitions include Mapping the Self at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Black Is Black Ain’t, which began at the Renaissance Society, Chicago, and is currently traveling. Recent acquisitions include Bank of America and the Milwaukee Art Museum.



Jason Lazarus, Barack Obama, Election Night Rally, Grant Park, Chicago, November 4th, 2008, archival inkjet print, 2008