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Jason Zimmerman (b.1978, Ephrata, 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, the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, OR, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Civilian Art Projects in Washington D.C., Project Row Houses in Houston, Lump Projects in Raleigh, Apexart and Smackmellon (opening this summer)in New York. He is represented by Civilian Art Projects in Washington D.C., where he recently mounted Feel better, longer, his fifth solo project since completing his BFA 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 Young Artists Prize at the annual Trawick Prize ceremony in 2007. Currently he is pursuing a Master of Fine Art, with an emphasis in Social Practice, at Portland State University.