CV
Education
• PhD: Philosophy: Art Theory and Aesthetics. Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, 2018. Dissertation: From Artworks to Artworlds: Information Efflorescence and Complex Systems Aesthetics. Dissertation director: Brian Massumi
• Non-degree studies: Complex Physical, Biological and Social Systems; Computer Programming and Complex Systems; and Complex Systems Modeling, Networks, and Data Analytics. New England Complex Systems Institute: MIT Campus, Cambridge MA, June 2014
• Non-degree studies: Dynamic Systems and Chaos. Santa Fe Institute, Spring 2014
• Non-degree studies: Emergent and Complex Adaptive Systems. Santa Fe Institute, Spring 2014
• Non-degree studies: Presenting Data and Information, Atlanta GA Spring 2013
• MFA: Painting. Pratt Institute, New York NY, 2000
• BFA: Painting & Drawing. Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Denver CO, 1998
Exhibition Record
• One-Person Gallery Exhibitions and Curatorial Projects
Hoffman LaChance Gallery, Monoplex, autumn 2021, St. Louis MO [forthcoming]
House of Wren, Simplexity, July-August 2018, Los Angeles CA
HUBweek, POLLINATE, a transdisciplinary and intermedial exhibition about coevolutionary aesthetics. Part of the HUBweek art/science/tech festival, a collaboration between Harvard University and MIT in Boston MA, October 2017
Alexander Brest Gallery, Jacksonville University, Syllepticonic, February-March 2017, Jacksonville FL
Hoffman LaChance Contemporary, Iconographic Overdrive, September 2016, St. Louis MO
TGB Gallery, Magnetic Fields Forever, September-October 2011, Berlin Germany
Gallery See, Syntaxiomatic, July-August, 2010, Atlanta GA
Pinnacle Gallery, Minimalish: Recent Paintings, March-April 2010, Savannah GA
Rule Modern & Contemporary, Attention Span Management, November 2009-January 2010, Denver CO [with illustrated catalog]
Cornell DeWitt Gallery, Scope New York, Recent Paintings, March 2004, New York NY
Pratt-Steuben Gallery, MFA Thesis Exhibition, March-April 2000, Brooklyn NY
OK Harris Gallery, Recent Paintings, January-February 1999, New York NY
Rule Modern & Contemporary, Recent Paintings, April 1998, Denver CO
Edge Gallery, NeoNow, January-February 1998, Denver CO
• Selected Group Exhibitions
Museum of Contemporary Art: Denver, Nth Dimension, June-September 2019, Denver CO
Georgia Museum of Contemporary Art, Gathered, April-June 2019, Atlanta GA
Artfields, April-May 2019, Lake City SC
Projects Gallery, Aqua Art Miami, December 2016, Miami FL
Jeffrey Leder Gallery, Works on Paper, February-March 2016, Long Island City NY
Betty Foy Sanders Gallery, Georgia Southern University New Faculty Exhibition, August-September 2015, Statesboro GA
ParisCONCRET, Poste Concret2, July-August 2013, Paris, France
Farm Project Space, Space-Time, July 2013, Provincetown MA [with illustrated catalog]
Manifest Gallery, Tapped 3, January 2013, Cincinnati OH [with illustrated catalog]
ParisCONCRET Gallery, Stockholm Independent Art Fair, February 2012, Stockholm, Sweden
MTSU: Todd Gallery, P3: Painters Painting Paint, September 2012, Murfreesboro TN
Jeffrey Leder Gallery, Abstract: Less is More, May-June 2012, Long Island City NY
Projects Gallery, Square Foot Art Basel Miami, November-December 2011, Miami FL
ParisCONCRET, Poste Concret, July-August 2011, Paris, France
Rule Modern & Contemporary, Art Santa Fe, July 2011, Santa Fe NM
St. Cecilia’s Gallery, May-June 2011, Brooklyn, NY
Mark Humphrey Gallery, April 2011, Southampton, NY
Moot Gallery, Year of the Rabbit, January-March 2011, Hong Kong, China
Mr. Beast Gallery, Kaiju, January-February 2011, Savannah GA
ParisCONCRET Gallery, Popular Mechanics, June-July 2010, Paris, France
Moot Gallery, Generation, March-April 2010, Hong Kong, China
Rule Modern & Contemporary, Art Santa Fe, July 2009, Santa Fe NM
Rule Modern & Contemporary, Red Dot Art Fair, February 2009, New York NY
Rule Modern & Contemporary, Aqua Art Miami, November 2008, Miami FL
Rule Modern & Contemporary, Red Dot Art Fair, February 2007, New York NY
Splashlight Studios, RXArt, November 2006, New York NY [with illustrated catalog]
LA Center for Digital Art, Snap to Grid, September-October 2005, Los Angeles CA
Cornell DeWitt Gallery, Art Santa Fe, July 2003, Santa Fe NM
White Columns, Groundswell Benefit, April 2003, New York NY
Cornell DeWitt Gallery, gallery artists, 2002-2004, New York NY
Cornell DeWitt Gallery, FlatOut, September-October, 2002, New York NY
Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver, PostPoint, February-March, 2001, Denver CO
Arvada Center for the Arts, Colorado Abstraction 1975-1999, Sept.-Nov.1999, Denver CO
OK Harris Gallery, Review of the Season: Group Show, July-September 1999, New York NY
Rule Modern & Contemporary, gallery artists, 1997-present, Denver CO
Publications, Conferences and Events
• Book
Art as Information Ecology: Artworks, Artworlds, and Complex Systems Aesthetics. Duke University Press, August 2021
• Conference Paper Presentations
SECAC (Southeast College Art Conference): Art, Information, and the Aesthetic Singularity. October 2019, Chattanooga TN
ICA (International Congress of Aesthetics): Creativity and Constraint in Adjacent Possibility Space. July 2019, University of Belgrade, Belgrade Serbia
ICA: Aesthetics and Technology, July 2019, University of Belgrade, Belgrade Serbia
SLSAeu (Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts: Europe): Information Efflorescence and the Post-Object Field. June 2019, University of Athens, Athens Greece
CAA (College Arts Association): Technology in the Studio Classroom, February 2019, New York, NY
SECAC: Ten Theses on Art and Artificial Intelligence. October 2018, Birmingham AL
SLSAeu: Art as Information Ecology. June 2018. University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Posthuman Aesthetics conference: The Maximum Potential Entropy of Posthuman Aesthetics: An Information Theoretic Interpretation of Grand Narratives. March 2017, Aarhus University, Aarhus Denmark.
CAA: Reductive Art, Refractive Information and Emergent Simplicity. February 2017, New York NY
SLSA (Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts): Creativity and Incommensurability: Modes of Differential Instauration. November 2017, Atlanta GA
SECAC: Sonic Instauration and the Contextural Subject. October 2016, Roanoke VA
ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association): Immateriality and Standardization: Information and Difference in Modernist Aesthetics. March 2016, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
GSU Great Minds Lecture Series: “Art, Information, and Complexity.” Georgia Southern University, Statesboro GA
CAA: Direct Experience, Once Removed: Unconcealing the Environmental Interface. February 2016, Washington, D.C.
SLSA: Preening for the Algorithmic Gaze: Bioinformatic Media and Panopticonic Performativity. November 2015, Houston TX
SECAC: Art, Ambiguity, and Generative Difference. October 2015, Pittsburgh PA
MSA (Modernist Studies Association): Drop Out Nodes and Tuned-In Networks: Drop City, Art Communes, and Complex Systems. November 2014, Pittsburgh PA
SECAC: Reciprocal Autonomy and Contemporary Abstract Painting. October 2014, Sarasota FL
CAA: Diffused Art and Diffracted Objecthood: Painting in the Distributed Field. February 2014, Chicago, IL
Return of the Text Conference: Transmodal Textuality: The Text as Interface. September 2013, Syracuse NY.
• Conference Panels Organized and/or Chaired
SECAC (Southeast College Art Conference): Art / Data / Information. October 2019. Chattanooga TN.
CAA (College Arts Association): Advanced Technology and Arts Education. February 2019. New York, NY
SECAC: Art and Aesthetics in an Era of Artificial Intelligence. October 2018. Birmingham AL.
SLSA EU: Biomedia Art: Sameness and Difference. June 2018, University of Copenhagen.
SECAC (Southeast College Art Conference): Art and Indeterminacy: Tactical Ambiguity in the Era of Standardized Testing. October 2015, Pittsburgh PA
MSA (Modernist Studies Association): Complexity Aesthetics: The Arts and Humanities as Complex Adaptive Systems. November 2014, Pittsburgh PA
• Peer-Review Journals and Anthology Publications
Dissertation abstract selected for inclusion in the peer-reviewed MIT Press/Leonardo Journal LABS (Leonardo Abstracts Service) research databank
“Site/Non-Site/Website: Presence, Absence and Interface in the Online Studio Critique,” in Stephen Knudsen and James Elkins, Eds. The Art of Critique: Reimagining Art Criticism and the Art School Critique, Intellect Books [forthcoming]
“Notes Toward an Autocatalytic Aesthetics,” in Ian Verstegen and Roger Rothman, Eds. Art of the Real: Visual Studies and New Materialisms, Cambridge Scholarly Publishing
“Autopoietic Art Systems and Aesthetic Swarms.” Evental Aesthetics. Vol. 2, No. 3, Winter 2013
• Magazine and Non-Peer-Review Journals
“The Relational Aesthetics of Ambient Artificial Intelligence.” ArtPulse Magazine, vol. 10, no. 32, October 2019
"#EverythingThatHappensAtOnce: Amy Schissel at Laura Mesaros Gallery.” ArtPulse Magazine, vol. 8, no. 29, November 2017
“The Material-Specific Paintings of Nathan Miner and Franklin Evans.” ArtPulse Magazine, vol. 7, no. 24, October 2015
“Speed, Interrupted: Katherine Taylor at Marcia Wood Gallery.” ArtPulse Magazine, vol. 7, no. 24, October 2015
“This Is Now: Alex Katz at the High Museum.” ARTnews Magazine, vol. 114, no. 9, October 2015
“Irresistible: Art, Meaning and Resistance: An Interview with Sylvère Lotringer.” ArtPulse Magazine, vol. 6, no. 23, September 2015
“Object Lesson: Laila Kouri at the Low Museum.” BurnAway, May 2015
“NeoNow and Post-Here: Material Specificity and Decentralized Painting.” ArtPulse Magazine, vol. 5, no. 23, June 2015 [feature article]
“Occupy Space/Time: Time-Folding in Contemporary Art.” ArtPulse Magazine, vol. 4, no. 18, February 2014. [lead feature article]
“Sven-Ole Frahm at Galerie Richard, Paris.” ArtPulse Magazine, vol. 4, no. 18, February 2014
“Pattern and Deregulation: Beauty and Non-Order in Contemporary Painting.” ArtPulse Magazine, vol. 4, no. 17, November 2013 [lead feature article]
“Janet Kawada: Art in Time, Time as Art.” ArtPulse Magazine, vol. 4, no. 15, May 2013.
“MIT: In the Holocene.” ArtPulse Magazine, vol. 4, no. 15, May 2013
“Art Circuit: The Biennial Complex as Dynamic Chronotopic System.” Artcore Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter 2013 [lead essay]
• Miscellaneous
Juror, LABnormal, Embodied Evolution: PostDigital Body Armor Design Competition. May 2014, Savannah GA
“In Conversation: Martha Buskirk and Jason Hoelscher: The State of Contemporary Art Theory.” Montserrat College of Art, Boston MA, November 2012
“In Memoriam to Static Subjectivity.” Exhibition catalog introduction, 2011
Grants, Visiting Artist Lectures, Fellowships and Residencies
Georgia Southern University, Faculty Development Grant, September 2016
Montserrat College of Art, Visiting artist: Classroom visits and critiques, Beverly MA, March 2016
Andy Warhol Foundation / Creative Capital / International Art Critics Association, Arts Writers Grant Program Workshop, January-June 2015
Massachusetts College of Art, Visiting artist: Presentation and class visits, Boston MA, February 2014
Montserrat College of Art, Visiting artist: Classroom visits and critiques, Beverly MA, February 2014
Case Western Reserve University, Visiting artist: Lecture and studio visits, Cleveland OH, April 2013
Montserrat College of Art, Visiting artist: One-week intensive visit, including lectures, classroom visits and guest critiques, Beverly MA, November 2012
Modernist Studies Association, Travel Fellowship, October 2012
Gallery See, Artist lecture to visiting students, Atlanta GA, August 2010
Pinnacle Gallery, Artist lecture to visiting students, Savannah GA, March 2010
Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Visiting artist: Classroom visits and guest critiques, Denver CO, November 2009
Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Emergency Grant, New York NY, October 2009
Institute for Experimental Studies, Artist in Residence, Denver CO, June-August 1999
Related Experience
Georgia Southern University. Gallery Director and Assistant Professor of Art. July 2015-present
ArtPulse Magazine. Contributing editor. Miami FL, 2013-present
ARTnews Magazine. Arts writer. New York NY, 2015-present
Burnaway. Arts writer. Atlanta GA, 2015-present
Susan Sheehan Gallery. Assistant Director. New York NY, 2002-2007
Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design. Director, NYC Studio Project. New York NY, 2000-2001
Mary Heilmann Studio. Studio assistant. New York and Bridgehampton NY, 2000-2002
Pat Hearn Gallery. Registrar and art handler. New York NY, 1998-2000
Selected Reviews
HUBweek, August 2, 2017, "Jason Hoelscher: HUBweek Artist of the Day"
HLC, September 2, 2016, by Eileen G'Sell, "The Pithy Provocations of Jason Hoelscher"
Riverfront Times, September 1, 2016, by Paul Friswold, "2 Must-See Art Openings This Weekend"
Professional Artist Magazine, November 2011, by Stephen Knudsen, “Jason Hoelscher: The Aesthetic Power of Recombination”, artist profile
Minus Space: Reductive Art, September 30, 2011, “Jason Hoelscher: Recent Paintings in Berlin”
Artnet Magazine, June 8, 2011, “Brooklyn Local”
Minus Space: Reductive Art, June 26, 2010, “Popular Mechanics: ParisCONCRET”
Culturehall: A Curated Online Resource for Contemporary Art, June 2010-present
Art Ltd. Magazine, March-April 2010, solo exhibition review
Denver Post, January 1, 2010, “The Shapes of Things to Come”, solo exhibition review
Westword, December 22, 2009, solo exhibition review
Minus Space: Reductive Art, November 21, 2009, “Jason Hoelscher: Attention Span Management”
Zing Magazine, November 2009, “zingrecs: Zing Recommends”
Art Ltd. Magazine, November-December 2009, “Focus on: Denver”
Saatchi Online Magazine, September 8, 2007, “Critics Choice”
Denver Post, September 13, 2002, group exhibition preview
Westword, Volume 26, #4, September 2002, group exhibition preview
Rocky Mountain News, Friday, March 9, 2001, group exhibition review
Colorado Springs Independent, October 14, 1999, “Art Hopping”, group exhibition review
Westword, Vol. 23, #4, September 1999, “Time Marches On”
Rocky Mountain News, Sunday, December 20, 1998, “Colorado Artists in National Spotlight”
eye-level: journal of contemporary visual culture, Winter 1998, “Jason Hoelscher: Deconstructing Constructivism”, artist profile
Westword, Vol. 21, #43, June 1998, “Best of Denver”: “Best Solo Show, Emerging Artist”
Westword, Vol. 21, #33, April 1998, solo exhibition review
Rocky Mountain News, Friday, April 17, 1998, “Weekend Spotlight”, solo exhibition review
Westword, Vol. 21, #23, February 1998, solo exhibition review
AD: Art & Design Denver, Vol. 1, # 1, February 1998, “In Your Face Silence”, artist profile
Professional Affiliations
ACLA: American Comparative Literature Association
ASA: American Society for Aesthetics
CAA: College Art Association
HASTAC: Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory
MSA: Modernist Studies Association
NECSI: New England Complex Systems Institute
NMC: New Media Caucus
SLSA: Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
SECAC: Southeastern College Art Conference
Education
• PhD: Philosophy: Art Theory and Aesthetics. Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, 2018. Dissertation: From Artworks to Artworlds: Information Efflorescence and Complex Systems Aesthetics. Dissertation director: Brian Massumi
• Non-degree studies: Complex Physical, Biological and Social Systems; Computer Programming and Complex Systems; and Complex Systems Modeling, Networks, and Data Analytics. New England Complex Systems Institute: MIT Campus, Cambridge MA, June 2014
• Non-degree studies: Dynamic Systems and Chaos. Santa Fe Institute, Spring 2014
• Non-degree studies: Emergent and Complex Adaptive Systems. Santa Fe Institute, Spring 2014
• Non-degree studies: Presenting Data and Information, Atlanta GA Spring 2013
• MFA: Painting. Pratt Institute, New York NY, 2000
• BFA: Painting & Drawing. Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Denver CO, 1998
Exhibition Record
• One-Person Gallery Exhibitions and Curatorial Projects
Hoffman LaChance Gallery, Monoplex, autumn 2021, St. Louis MO [forthcoming]
House of Wren, Simplexity, July-August 2018, Los Angeles CA
HUBweek, POLLINATE, a transdisciplinary and intermedial exhibition about coevolutionary aesthetics. Part of the HUBweek art/science/tech festival, a collaboration between Harvard University and MIT in Boston MA, October 2017
Alexander Brest Gallery, Jacksonville University, Syllepticonic, February-March 2017, Jacksonville FL
Hoffman LaChance Contemporary, Iconographic Overdrive, September 2016, St. Louis MO
TGB Gallery, Magnetic Fields Forever, September-October 2011, Berlin Germany
Gallery See, Syntaxiomatic, July-August, 2010, Atlanta GA
Pinnacle Gallery, Minimalish: Recent Paintings, March-April 2010, Savannah GA
Rule Modern & Contemporary, Attention Span Management, November 2009-January 2010, Denver CO [with illustrated catalog]
Cornell DeWitt Gallery, Scope New York, Recent Paintings, March 2004, New York NY
Pratt-Steuben Gallery, MFA Thesis Exhibition, March-April 2000, Brooklyn NY
OK Harris Gallery, Recent Paintings, January-February 1999, New York NY
Rule Modern & Contemporary, Recent Paintings, April 1998, Denver CO
Edge Gallery, NeoNow, January-February 1998, Denver CO
• Selected Group Exhibitions
Museum of Contemporary Art: Denver, Nth Dimension, June-September 2019, Denver CO
Georgia Museum of Contemporary Art, Gathered, April-June 2019, Atlanta GA
Artfields, April-May 2019, Lake City SC
Projects Gallery, Aqua Art Miami, December 2016, Miami FL
Jeffrey Leder Gallery, Works on Paper, February-March 2016, Long Island City NY
Betty Foy Sanders Gallery, Georgia Southern University New Faculty Exhibition, August-September 2015, Statesboro GA
ParisCONCRET, Poste Concret2, July-August 2013, Paris, France
Farm Project Space, Space-Time, July 2013, Provincetown MA [with illustrated catalog]
Manifest Gallery, Tapped 3, January 2013, Cincinnati OH [with illustrated catalog]
ParisCONCRET Gallery, Stockholm Independent Art Fair, February 2012, Stockholm, Sweden
MTSU: Todd Gallery, P3: Painters Painting Paint, September 2012, Murfreesboro TN
Jeffrey Leder Gallery, Abstract: Less is More, May-June 2012, Long Island City NY
Projects Gallery, Square Foot Art Basel Miami, November-December 2011, Miami FL
ParisCONCRET, Poste Concret, July-August 2011, Paris, France
Rule Modern & Contemporary, Art Santa Fe, July 2011, Santa Fe NM
St. Cecilia’s Gallery, May-June 2011, Brooklyn, NY
Mark Humphrey Gallery, April 2011, Southampton, NY
Moot Gallery, Year of the Rabbit, January-March 2011, Hong Kong, China
Mr. Beast Gallery, Kaiju, January-February 2011, Savannah GA
ParisCONCRET Gallery, Popular Mechanics, June-July 2010, Paris, France
Moot Gallery, Generation, March-April 2010, Hong Kong, China
Rule Modern & Contemporary, Art Santa Fe, July 2009, Santa Fe NM
Rule Modern & Contemporary, Red Dot Art Fair, February 2009, New York NY
Rule Modern & Contemporary, Aqua Art Miami, November 2008, Miami FL
Rule Modern & Contemporary, Red Dot Art Fair, February 2007, New York NY
Splashlight Studios, RXArt, November 2006, New York NY [with illustrated catalog]
LA Center for Digital Art, Snap to Grid, September-October 2005, Los Angeles CA
Cornell DeWitt Gallery, Art Santa Fe, July 2003, Santa Fe NM
White Columns, Groundswell Benefit, April 2003, New York NY
Cornell DeWitt Gallery, gallery artists, 2002-2004, New York NY
Cornell DeWitt Gallery, FlatOut, September-October, 2002, New York NY
Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver, PostPoint, February-March, 2001, Denver CO
Arvada Center for the Arts, Colorado Abstraction 1975-1999, Sept.-Nov.1999, Denver CO
OK Harris Gallery, Review of the Season: Group Show, July-September 1999, New York NY
Rule Modern & Contemporary, gallery artists, 1997-present, Denver CO
Publications, Conferences and Events
• Book
Art as Information Ecology: Artworks, Artworlds, and Complex Systems Aesthetics. Duke University Press, August 2021
• Conference Paper Presentations
SECAC (Southeast College Art Conference): Art, Information, and the Aesthetic Singularity. October 2019, Chattanooga TN
ICA (International Congress of Aesthetics): Creativity and Constraint in Adjacent Possibility Space. July 2019, University of Belgrade, Belgrade Serbia
ICA: Aesthetics and Technology, July 2019, University of Belgrade, Belgrade Serbia
SLSAeu (Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts: Europe): Information Efflorescence and the Post-Object Field. June 2019, University of Athens, Athens Greece
CAA (College Arts Association): Technology in the Studio Classroom, February 2019, New York, NY
SECAC: Ten Theses on Art and Artificial Intelligence. October 2018, Birmingham AL
SLSAeu: Art as Information Ecology. June 2018. University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Posthuman Aesthetics conference: The Maximum Potential Entropy of Posthuman Aesthetics: An Information Theoretic Interpretation of Grand Narratives. March 2017, Aarhus University, Aarhus Denmark.
CAA: Reductive Art, Refractive Information and Emergent Simplicity. February 2017, New York NY
SLSA (Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts): Creativity and Incommensurability: Modes of Differential Instauration. November 2017, Atlanta GA
SECAC: Sonic Instauration and the Contextural Subject. October 2016, Roanoke VA
ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association): Immateriality and Standardization: Information and Difference in Modernist Aesthetics. March 2016, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
GSU Great Minds Lecture Series: “Art, Information, and Complexity.” Georgia Southern University, Statesboro GA
CAA: Direct Experience, Once Removed: Unconcealing the Environmental Interface. February 2016, Washington, D.C.
SLSA: Preening for the Algorithmic Gaze: Bioinformatic Media and Panopticonic Performativity. November 2015, Houston TX
SECAC: Art, Ambiguity, and Generative Difference. October 2015, Pittsburgh PA
MSA (Modernist Studies Association): Drop Out Nodes and Tuned-In Networks: Drop City, Art Communes, and Complex Systems. November 2014, Pittsburgh PA
SECAC: Reciprocal Autonomy and Contemporary Abstract Painting. October 2014, Sarasota FL
CAA: Diffused Art and Diffracted Objecthood: Painting in the Distributed Field. February 2014, Chicago, IL
Return of the Text Conference: Transmodal Textuality: The Text as Interface. September 2013, Syracuse NY.
• Conference Panels Organized and/or Chaired
SECAC (Southeast College Art Conference): Art / Data / Information. October 2019. Chattanooga TN.
CAA (College Arts Association): Advanced Technology and Arts Education. February 2019. New York, NY
SECAC: Art and Aesthetics in an Era of Artificial Intelligence. October 2018. Birmingham AL.
SLSA EU: Biomedia Art: Sameness and Difference. June 2018, University of Copenhagen.
SECAC (Southeast College Art Conference): Art and Indeterminacy: Tactical Ambiguity in the Era of Standardized Testing. October 2015, Pittsburgh PA
MSA (Modernist Studies Association): Complexity Aesthetics: The Arts and Humanities as Complex Adaptive Systems. November 2014, Pittsburgh PA
• Peer-Review Journals and Anthology Publications
Dissertation abstract selected for inclusion in the peer-reviewed MIT Press/Leonardo Journal LABS (Leonardo Abstracts Service) research databank
“Site/Non-Site/Website: Presence, Absence and Interface in the Online Studio Critique,” in Stephen Knudsen and James Elkins, Eds. The Art of Critique: Reimagining Art Criticism and the Art School Critique, Intellect Books [forthcoming]
“Notes Toward an Autocatalytic Aesthetics,” in Ian Verstegen and Roger Rothman, Eds. Art of the Real: Visual Studies and New Materialisms, Cambridge Scholarly Publishing
“Autopoietic Art Systems and Aesthetic Swarms.” Evental Aesthetics. Vol. 2, No. 3, Winter 2013
• Magazine and Non-Peer-Review Journals
“The Relational Aesthetics of Ambient Artificial Intelligence.” ArtPulse Magazine, vol. 10, no. 32, October 2019
"#EverythingThatHappensAtOnce: Amy Schissel at Laura Mesaros Gallery.” ArtPulse Magazine, vol. 8, no. 29, November 2017
“The Material-Specific Paintings of Nathan Miner and Franklin Evans.” ArtPulse Magazine, vol. 7, no. 24, October 2015
“Speed, Interrupted: Katherine Taylor at Marcia Wood Gallery.” ArtPulse Magazine, vol. 7, no. 24, October 2015
“This Is Now: Alex Katz at the High Museum.” ARTnews Magazine, vol. 114, no. 9, October 2015
“Irresistible: Art, Meaning and Resistance: An Interview with Sylvère Lotringer.” ArtPulse Magazine, vol. 6, no. 23, September 2015
“Object Lesson: Laila Kouri at the Low Museum.” BurnAway, May 2015
“NeoNow and Post-Here: Material Specificity and Decentralized Painting.” ArtPulse Magazine, vol. 5, no. 23, June 2015 [feature article]
“Occupy Space/Time: Time-Folding in Contemporary Art.” ArtPulse Magazine, vol. 4, no. 18, February 2014. [lead feature article]
“Sven-Ole Frahm at Galerie Richard, Paris.” ArtPulse Magazine, vol. 4, no. 18, February 2014
“Pattern and Deregulation: Beauty and Non-Order in Contemporary Painting.” ArtPulse Magazine, vol. 4, no. 17, November 2013 [lead feature article]
“Janet Kawada: Art in Time, Time as Art.” ArtPulse Magazine, vol. 4, no. 15, May 2013.
“MIT: In the Holocene.” ArtPulse Magazine, vol. 4, no. 15, May 2013
“Art Circuit: The Biennial Complex as Dynamic Chronotopic System.” Artcore Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter 2013 [lead essay]
• Miscellaneous
Juror, LABnormal, Embodied Evolution: PostDigital Body Armor Design Competition. May 2014, Savannah GA
“In Conversation: Martha Buskirk and Jason Hoelscher: The State of Contemporary Art Theory.” Montserrat College of Art, Boston MA, November 2012
“In Memoriam to Static Subjectivity.” Exhibition catalog introduction, 2011
Grants, Visiting Artist Lectures, Fellowships and Residencies
Georgia Southern University, Faculty Development Grant, September 2016
Montserrat College of Art, Visiting artist: Classroom visits and critiques, Beverly MA, March 2016
Andy Warhol Foundation / Creative Capital / International Art Critics Association, Arts Writers Grant Program Workshop, January-June 2015
Massachusetts College of Art, Visiting artist: Presentation and class visits, Boston MA, February 2014
Montserrat College of Art, Visiting artist: Classroom visits and critiques, Beverly MA, February 2014
Case Western Reserve University, Visiting artist: Lecture and studio visits, Cleveland OH, April 2013
Montserrat College of Art, Visiting artist: One-week intensive visit, including lectures, classroom visits and guest critiques, Beverly MA, November 2012
Modernist Studies Association, Travel Fellowship, October 2012
Gallery See, Artist lecture to visiting students, Atlanta GA, August 2010
Pinnacle Gallery, Artist lecture to visiting students, Savannah GA, March 2010
Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Visiting artist: Classroom visits and guest critiques, Denver CO, November 2009
Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Emergency Grant, New York NY, October 2009
Institute for Experimental Studies, Artist in Residence, Denver CO, June-August 1999
Related Experience
Georgia Southern University. Gallery Director and Assistant Professor of Art. July 2015-present
ArtPulse Magazine. Contributing editor. Miami FL, 2013-present
ARTnews Magazine. Arts writer. New York NY, 2015-present
Burnaway. Arts writer. Atlanta GA, 2015-present
Susan Sheehan Gallery. Assistant Director. New York NY, 2002-2007
Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design. Director, NYC Studio Project. New York NY, 2000-2001
Mary Heilmann Studio. Studio assistant. New York and Bridgehampton NY, 2000-2002
Pat Hearn Gallery. Registrar and art handler. New York NY, 1998-2000
Selected Reviews
HUBweek, August 2, 2017, "Jason Hoelscher: HUBweek Artist of the Day"
HLC, September 2, 2016, by Eileen G'Sell, "The Pithy Provocations of Jason Hoelscher"
Riverfront Times, September 1, 2016, by Paul Friswold, "2 Must-See Art Openings This Weekend"
Professional Artist Magazine, November 2011, by Stephen Knudsen, “Jason Hoelscher: The Aesthetic Power of Recombination”, artist profile
Minus Space: Reductive Art, September 30, 2011, “Jason Hoelscher: Recent Paintings in Berlin”
Artnet Magazine, June 8, 2011, “Brooklyn Local”
Minus Space: Reductive Art, June 26, 2010, “Popular Mechanics: ParisCONCRET”
Culturehall: A Curated Online Resource for Contemporary Art, June 2010-present
Art Ltd. Magazine, March-April 2010, solo exhibition review
Denver Post, January 1, 2010, “The Shapes of Things to Come”, solo exhibition review
Westword, December 22, 2009, solo exhibition review
Minus Space: Reductive Art, November 21, 2009, “Jason Hoelscher: Attention Span Management”
Zing Magazine, November 2009, “zingrecs: Zing Recommends”
Art Ltd. Magazine, November-December 2009, “Focus on: Denver”
Saatchi Online Magazine, September 8, 2007, “Critics Choice”
Denver Post, September 13, 2002, group exhibition preview
Westword, Volume 26, #4, September 2002, group exhibition preview
Rocky Mountain News, Friday, March 9, 2001, group exhibition review
Colorado Springs Independent, October 14, 1999, “Art Hopping”, group exhibition review
Westword, Vol. 23, #4, September 1999, “Time Marches On”
Rocky Mountain News, Sunday, December 20, 1998, “Colorado Artists in National Spotlight”
eye-level: journal of contemporary visual culture, Winter 1998, “Jason Hoelscher: Deconstructing Constructivism”, artist profile
Westword, Vol. 21, #43, June 1998, “Best of Denver”: “Best Solo Show, Emerging Artist”
Westword, Vol. 21, #33, April 1998, solo exhibition review
Rocky Mountain News, Friday, April 17, 1998, “Weekend Spotlight”, solo exhibition review
Westword, Vol. 21, #23, February 1998, solo exhibition review
AD: Art & Design Denver, Vol. 1, # 1, February 1998, “In Your Face Silence”, artist profile
Professional Affiliations
ACLA: American Comparative Literature Association
ASA: American Society for Aesthetics
CAA: College Art Association
HASTAC: Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory
MSA: Modernist Studies Association
NECSI: New England Complex Systems Institute
NMC: New Media Caucus
SLSA: Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
SECAC: Southeastern College Art Conference
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