Jason Zimmerman (b.1978, Lancaster, PA) has been working as an artist and designer for nearly a decade. His projects have been featured in one-person and group exhibitions at the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Bétonsalon in Paris, the Portland Art Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Civilian Art Projects in Washington, D.C., Project Row Houses in Houston, Lump Projects in Raleigh, and apexart and Smack Mellon in New York. He recently mounted Stories!!!!, his sixth solo project since completing his studies in Photography at the Corcoran College of Art + Design in 2003. He has received recognition from organizations such as the Baltimore Office of Arts and Promotion’s Sondheim Prize, the Embassy of Switzerland, Scope Art Fair, and the Washington Project for the Arts. He was the recipient of the Trawick Prize’s Young Artists Prize in 2007. Currently he is pursuing a Master of Fine Art, with an emphasis in Social Practice, at Portland State University.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010, STORIES!!!!, The New Video Gallery, Portland, OR
2008, Feel better, longer, Civilian Art Projects, Washington, D.C.
2007, Jason Zimmerman: Natural Acts, Civilian Art Projects, Washington, D.C.
2006, Straight, Street, Traditional – New Photographs, Irvine Contemporary Art, Washington, D.C.
2005, Fair Game, Transformer Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2003, Documented, Errant Space, Washington, D.C.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010, C A T A L Y S T – 35 Years of Washington Project for the Arts, American University Museum, Washington, D.C.
2010, New Work by Recent Corcoran Photography and Photojournalism Graduates, Corcoran College of Art + Design, Washington, D.C.
2010, Shine a Light, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
2010, Grown Ups, Disjecta, Portland, OR
2010, Condensations of the Social, Smack Mellon, New York, NY
2010, The Incidental Person, Apexart, New York, NY
2009, Parties Prenantes: Info Point, Bétonsalon, Paris, France
2009, Scope Art Fair, Civilian Art Projects, Miami, FL
2009, Reply All, Autzen Gallery, Portland, OR
2009, Shine A Light: A Night at the Museum, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
2009, 18 Mammals, Carroll Square Gallery, Washington, DC
2009, Two Thousand Ten, Igloo Gallery, Portland, OR
2009, Penned, Lump Projects, Raleigh, NC
2009, From Portland With Love, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
2008, craigslist, Civilian Art Projects, Washington, D.C.
2008, Inaugural Open House, The Library of Progress, Baltimore, MD
2008, Interstitial, New Media Festival, i^3, Chicago, IL
2007, Alumni Juried Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
2007, Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2006, Civilian @ G, G Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
2006, Dynamic Field, Civilian Art Projects, Washington, D.C.
2006, Exchanges, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.; The Creative Alliance, Baltimore MD; Gallery5, Richmond, VA
2006, Too Much Freedom? Freewaves’ 10th Biennial Film, Video & New Media, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2006, Dangling, Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Spring, MD
2006, The Trawick Prize, Finalist Exhibition, Bethesda, MD
2006, Material Matters, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
2006, The Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize, Finalist Exhibition, Baltimore, MD
2006, Cinema-Scope, Scope Art Fair, New York, NY
2006, The BRITE Foundation, New York, NY
2006, Armory Show Weekend, Irvine Contemporary Art, New York, NY
2005, Cinema-Scope, Scope Art Fair, Miami, FL
2005, Scope Art Fair, guest of The Curator’s Office, Miami, FL
2005, Scope Art Fair, guest of Irvine Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
2005, The Trawick Prize, Finalist Exhibition, Bethesda, MD
2005, The Watchers, 815 West 33rdt, Baltimore, MD
2005, Nocturnal Transmissions, The Curator’s Office, Washington, D.C.
2005, Faces of the Fallen, The Women’s Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
2005, Uncommon Vision, The Arts Club of Washington, Washington, D.C.
2004, Anonymous, Flashpoint, Washington, D.C.
2003, New & Used, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

EDUCATION
2010, MFA, Social Practice, Portland State University, Portland, OR
2003, BFA, Photography, The Corcoran College of Art + Design, Washington, D.C.
1999, Coursework, Photography, York College of Pennsylvania

AWARDS, HONORS & OTHER ACTIVITIES
2010, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Visiting Artist/Lecturer
2009, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Panelist
2008, University of Victoria, Visiting Artist/Lecturer
2008, The Corcoran College of Art + Design, Panelist
2008, American In-house Design Award, GD USA Magazine
2006, Young Artist Prize, The Trawick Prize, Recipient
2006, The Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize, Finalist
2005, Embassy of Switzerland, Visiting Artist/Lecturer
2004, The Corcoran College of Art + Design, Artist/Lecturer
2003, Alumni Association Award for Excellence, The Corcoran College of At + Design, Recipient