JASON HOELSCHER STUDIO | ABOUT / CV
Jason Hoelscher Studio, a licensed, fully insured, and contract-ready LLC led by artist, professor, and gallery director Jason Hoelscher (MFA, PhD), works at the intersection of conceptual rigor and the physical demands of public space. With more than 30 years of national and international exhibitions and public art experience, we collaborate closely with civic agencies, architects, and community partners to create site-responsive artworks that translate the rhythms and lived experience of a place into enduring form.
Across more than 200 installations to date, ranging from gallery and museum exhibitions to complex, building-scale projects requiring crane lifts and multi-team coordination, we pair hands-on fabrication and contractor fluency with research-driven systems thinking. Informed further by training in Design Thinking and Innovation from Harvard Business School Online, our approach moves fluidly between creative vision and technical precision, resulting in durable, code-aware artworks designed to breathe within their environment and hold their meaning over time.
Jason Hoelscher Studio, a licensed, fully insured, and contract-ready LLC led by artist, professor, and gallery director Jason Hoelscher (MFA, PhD), works at the intersection of conceptual rigor and the physical demands of public space. With more than 30 years of national and international exhibitions and public art experience, we collaborate closely with civic agencies, architects, and community partners to create site-responsive artworks that translate the rhythms and lived experience of a place into enduring form.
Across more than 200 installations to date, ranging from gallery and museum exhibitions to complex, building-scale projects requiring crane lifts and multi-team coordination, we pair hands-on fabrication and contractor fluency with research-driven systems thinking. Informed further by training in Design Thinking and Innovation from Harvard Business School Online, our approach moves fluidly between creative vision and technical precision, resulting in durable, code-aware artworks designed to breathe within their environment and hold their meaning over time.
CV
SUMMARY OVERVIEW
• Jason Hoelscher is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and professor with more than 30 years of national and international exhibition and public art experience across civic, cultural, healthcare, airport, and park environments. Over that time, he has developed and delivered more than 200 installations, ranging from gallery and museum exhibitions to complex multi-site public projects requiring crane lifts, rigging, and coordinated logistics.
• Recent commissions include:
• Current momentum includes finalist and shortlisted status for more than $900,000 in major public art commissions across Rhode Island, Michigan, Colorado, and Washington, along with invited design development work with institutional partners including the Toronto Blue Jays.
• Background includes a BFA and MFA in studio art, a PhD in aesthetic philosophy, and a certificate in Design Thinking & Innovation from Harvard Business School Online. Hoelscher has spent two decades as a Professor of Interdisciplinary Art and more than ten years as a university gallery director, overseeing a six-figure state budget supporting five gallery spaces and a sculpture garden.
• Studio methodology begins with an AEIOU analysis of each site’s Activities, Environments, Interactions, Objects, and Users, translating environmental conditions, spatial patterns, and community activity into durable, site-responsive public artworks that support movement, gathering, orientation, and shared public experience, developed in close collaboration with community members, architects, engineers, fabricators, and installers.
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EDUCATION AND TRAINING
PRIMARY DISCIPLINES AND MEDIA
SELECTED PUBLIC AND SITE-SPECIFIC WORKS
SELECTED PUBLIC ART FINALIST AND ARTIST REGISTRY SELECTIONS
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
SELECTED PRESS AND MEDIA
SELECTED VISITING ARTIST AND PUBLIC LECTURE ENGAGEMENTS
RELATED EXPERIENCE AND LEADERSHIP
SUMMARY OVERVIEW
• Jason Hoelscher is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and professor with more than 30 years of national and international exhibition and public art experience across civic, cultural, healthcare, airport, and park environments. Over that time, he has developed and delivered more than 200 installations, ranging from gallery and museum exhibitions to complex multi-site public projects requiring crane lifts, rigging, and coordinated logistics.
• Recent commissions include:
- Snow College, Ephraim, Utah (2026–2027) – $164,000 suite of site-specific murals and architectural terrazzo for the new Social Sciences building, developed as a building-scale visual system rooted in the landscape, movement, and community of the Sanpete Valley.
- New Civic Building, Nevada (2026) – $200,000 commission for architecturally integrated terrazzo and GFRC plaza inlays for a new civic landmark designed to strengthen orientation, gathering, and public identity (contract signed, additional details forthcoming).
- Greenville–Spartanburg International Airport (2025) – $100,000 suite of site-specific architectural terrazzo floor medallions delivered from concept through installation in under five months, creating wayfinding anchors and shared points of orientation within a high-traffic concourse. Nominated for both a 2026 National Terrazzo & Mosaic Association Honor Award and an Associated Builders and Contractors Excellence in Construction Award.
- Pollinate, MIT/Harvard HUBweek Art & Technology Festival, Boston City Hall Plaza (2017) – A curatorial commission that drew more than 50,000 visitors, gained extensive print, digital, and television press coverage, and recognition as “one of the most Instagrammable spots in Boston” during its debut week.
• Current momentum includes finalist and shortlisted status for more than $900,000 in major public art commissions across Rhode Island, Michigan, Colorado, and Washington, along with invited design development work with institutional partners including the Toronto Blue Jays.
• Background includes a BFA and MFA in studio art, a PhD in aesthetic philosophy, and a certificate in Design Thinking & Innovation from Harvard Business School Online. Hoelscher has spent two decades as a Professor of Interdisciplinary Art and more than ten years as a university gallery director, overseeing a six-figure state budget supporting five gallery spaces and a sculpture garden.
• Studio methodology begins with an AEIOU analysis of each site’s Activities, Environments, Interactions, Objects, and Users, translating environmental conditions, spatial patterns, and community activity into durable, site-responsive public artworks that support movement, gathering, orientation, and shared public experience, developed in close collaboration with community members, architects, engineers, fabricators, and installers.
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EDUCATION AND TRAINING
- Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts. PhD: Aesthetics and Art Theory. Portland, ME, 2018. (Dissertation advisor: Brian Massumi)
- Pratt Institute. MFA: Painting. New York, NY, 2000
- Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design. BFA: Painting and Drawing. Denver, CO, 1998
- Harvard Business School Online: Executive Education Program. Certificate: Design Thinking and Innovation. Cambridge, MA, 2025
- New England Complex Systems Institute. Certificate: Complex Physical and Social Systems and Network Modeling. Cambridge, MA, 2014
PRIMARY DISCIPLINES AND MEDIA
- Murals and integrated architectural wall works (paint-based, tile, powder-coated metals, ACM, HLP, glass, mosaic systems)
- Terrazzo and floor-based installations (public concourses, lobbies, and high-traffic environments)
- Sculpture and installation (powder-coated metals; GFRC; fabricated elements; site-specific systems)
- Multimedia/LED/interactive components (as appropriate to context and site requirements)
SELECTED PUBLIC AND SITE-SPECIFIC WORKS
- Snow College, Ephraim, Utah (2026–2027) – $164,000 site-specific installation featuring an 8' x 24' mural, an 8' x 12' mural, a 10' architectural lobby terrazzo medallion, and a suite of site-integrated corridor wall works
- New civic construction in Nevada (2026) – $200,000 site-specific architectural terrazzo installation and coordinated suite of integrally-colored GFRC inlays for the lobby and plaza of a new civic building. Installation summer–autumn 2026 (contract signed, additional information forthcoming)
- Greenville–Spartanburg International Airport (2025) – $100,000 site-specific terrazzo floor medallion suite for new concourse. Fast-track commission from initial design to finished installation in less than five months. Nominated for a 2026 National Terrazzo & Mosaic Association Honor Award and an Associated Builders and Contractors Excellence in Construction Award. Greer, SC
- HUBweek Art and Technology Festival, Boston City Hall Plaza (2017) – Pollinate, commissioned curatorial civic installation in partnership with MIT and Harvard University. Extensive television, radio, online, and print coverage, including multiple mentions in a front-page Sunday Boston Globe article and a vote as "one of the most Instagrammable spots in Boston" the week it debuted.
- West Virginia Wesleyan College (2024) – Surface Tension, commissioned installation.
- Museum of Contemporary Art: Denver (2019) – Nth Dimension, invitational installation.
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Georgia (2019) – Gathered IV, juried installation.
- Jacksonville University (2017) – Syntaxiomatic, commissioned installation.
- Lacoste Autumn Festival, France (2013) – Conceive and Create, invitational installation at seven sites across a town in southern France.
SELECTED PUBLIC ART FINALIST AND ARTIST REGISTRY SELECTIONS
- Toronto Blue Jays (facilitated by Rise DBI) – Clubhouse and executive office artwork, Toronto, ON, 2026. Invited design development
- Regan Unit, Eleanor Slater Hospital – Multi-part mural suite, $160,000 budget. Warwick, RI, 2025 (one of three finalists selected out of 200+ submissions)
- High Line Canal Park Commission – Interactive sculpture, $112,000 budget. Denver, CO, 2025
- Kensington Park – Two storytelling sculptures, $58,000 budget. Westminster, CO, 2025
- Pleasant Ridge Arts Council – Parkside mural, $30,000 budget. Pleasant Ridge, MI, 2025
- Accepted Artist, Pre-Qualified Registries – NYC Department of Cultural Affairs: NYC Percent for Art Artist Directory. City of Bellingham, Washington: Pre-Qualified Artist Registry. NYC: The Painting Center: Curated Art File Gallery.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- Kalmanson Gallery. Fold/Flow/Field, Swainsboro, GA, 2026
- Lamasco Gallery. Curvitecture, Evansville, IN, 2024
- Wren Gallery. Simplexity, Artsy/Los Angeles CA, 2018
- Hoffman-LaChance Contemporary. Iconographic Overdrive, St. Louis, MO, 2016
- TGB Gallery. Full Spectrum, Berlin, Germany, 2011
- Rule Gallery. Attention Span Management, Denver, CO, 2009
- Cornell DeWitt Gallery. Scope New York, New York, NY, 2004
- OK Harris Gallery. Recent Paintings. New York, NY 1999
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- Site: Brooklyn. The Power of Abstraction, Brooklyn, NY, 2024
- Traveling group exhibition. See Me, multi-venue international tour, 2024
- Projects Gallery. Aqua Art Miami, Miami, FL, 2011, 2016, 2018
- ParisCONCRET. Paris, France, 2011, 2013
- Farm Project Space. Space-Time, Provincetown, MA, 2013
- Stockholm Independent Art Fair. Stockholm, Sweden, 2012
- Moot Gallery. Year of the Rabbit, Hong Kong, China, 2010, 2011
- Splashlight Studios. RXArt, New York, NY, 2006
- LA Center for Digital Art. Snap to Grid, Los Angeles, CA, 2005
- White Columns. Groundswell, New York, NY, 2003
SELECTED PRESS AND MEDIA
- Artrepreneur Orange Book NYC. Artist Spotlight, March–April 2023
- Westword. Feature coverage, August 2019
- The Boston Globe, Sunday Edition. Feature article, October 14, 2017
- The Boston Globe Online. Multiple features, October 2017
- Boston WHDH-TV Channel 7 (NBC affiliate). Interview, October 14, 2017
- The Riverfront Times. Must-See Exhibitions This Week, September 2017
- Professional Artist Magazine. Artist profile, November 2011
- Art Ltd. Magazine. Solo exhibition review, February 2010
- Saatchi Online Magazine. Critics Choice: Jason Hoelscher, September 2007
- Westword: Best of Denver Issue. Best Solo Show: Emerging Artist: Jason Hoelscher, April 1998
SELECTED VISITING ARTIST AND PUBLIC LECTURE ENGAGEMENTS
- Emerson College. Visiting artist and speaker, Boston, MA, February 2025
- Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design. Commencement speaker, May 2024
- UCLA. Respondent lecture, Los Angeles, CA, July 2022
- HOW Art Museum: Shanghai. Curatorial residency, June–August 2020
- Museum of Contemporary Art: Denver. Visiting artist and speaker, August 2019
- Apex Art. Juror of curatorial proposals, New York, NY, October 2018
- Morris Museum of Art. Public lecture, Augusta GA, May 2016
- Andy Warhol Foundation. Arts Writers Grant Program Workshop. January–December 2015
- Massachusetts College of Art. Visiting artist and speaker. Public lecture and class visits, Boston MA, February 2014
RELATED EXPERIENCE AND LEADERSHIP
- Georgia Southern University (2015–present). Professor of Interdisciplinary Art and Gallery Director. Oversight of five galleries and a sculpture garden, curation and installation of 200+ exhibitions and art integrations, mentoring of MFA and BFA students. Experience engaging multiple stakeholders, managing six-figure budgets, handling complex logistics, and implementing multiscale installations.
- Duke University Press (2021). Author, Art as Information Ecology: Artworks, Artworlds, and Complex Systems Aesthetics.
- ArtPulse Magazine (2013–2021). Art critic and contributing editor, Miami, FL
- ARTnews Magazine (2015–2016). Art critic, New York, NY
- Burnaway (2015–2018). Arts writer, Atlanta, GA
- Savannah College of Art and Design (2007–2014): Instructor, Painting and Foundations, Savannah, GA
- Susan Sheehan Gallery (2002–2007). Assistant Director. New York, NY
- Mary Heilmann Studio (2000–2002). Studio assistant. New York, NY and Bridgehampton, NY, 2000-2002
- Pat Hearn Gallery (1998–2000). Registrar and art handler. New York, NY
