Engaging Art Program | Jason DeMarte
Jason DeMarte is an artist best known for his large scale, highly detailed, seductive flora and fauna photo assemblages that explore our cultural relationship to the natural world. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide and is held in many private and public collections including the Denver Art Museum, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Museum of Outdoor Arts, the Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, Saks 5th Avenue Stores, and 21c Museum Hotels. His record of exhibitions includes solo shows at Denver Botanical Gardens, Rule Gallery in Marfa Texas, Ibis Contemporary in New Orleans, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, the Detroit Center of Contemporary Photography, and Wessell Synman in Cape Town South Africa. DeMarte's work has also been included in prominent group exhibitions, such as; "Context" at Filter Photo Space in Chicago, "The National: Best Contemporary Photography" at the Ft. Wayne Museum of Art, and "Exposure 2021" at the Contemporary Calgary Art Museum "212 Photography Istanbul, Museum Gazhane, Istanbul, Turkey.
Jason is a tenured professor of art at Eastern Michigan University. He received his B.F.A in Photography from Colorado State University and his M.F.A in Photography form the University of Oregon