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RESUME
Jason Lujan is originally from Marfa, Texas, and lives in Toronto, ON. Largely integrating visual components of commercial and political design rooted in Asia and North America, the work focuses on the possibilities and limitations of the exchanging of ideas, meanings, and values, and questions the concepts of authorship and authenticity.
Lujan is an Assistant Professor at OCAD U and one of two artists behind Native Art Department International (NADI), a project in collaboration with Maria Hupfield. His work has exhibited at the University of Toronto Art Museum (ON), MOCA Toronto (ON), Mercer Union (ON), Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares (CDMX), Art Mur (QB), Museum of Contemporary Native Art (NM) , Five Myles Gallery (NY), Art Gallery of Guelph (ON), and the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum (FL). Professionally, Lujan has contributed to, planned, and managed exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Dia Art Foundation, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Park Avenue Armory. He is represented by MKG127 in Toronto.
Select Exhibitions
2023
High Magick; Patel Brown; Montreal, QC
American Artists With Friends; Best Friends Showroom; Falun, SWE
Utopian Aesthetic; Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery; Kitchener, ON (solo)
Woodland Boogie Woogie 6; Varley Art Gallery; Markham, ON
Bibliography; MKG127; Toronto, ON
Nigig Diving the Depth; Ignite Gallery; Toronto, ON
Under a Star-Filled Sky, Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph, ON (solo)
Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography; Denver Art Museum; Denver, CO
Beacon of Light, SPA, Barre, VT
Together We Can Rule This Land; Modern Fuel, Kingston, ON (solo)
2022
Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography; Amon Carter Museum of American Art; Fort Worth, TX (catalogue)
Watch The Sun Turn to Gold; K-Art; Buffalo, NY
Woodland Boogie Woogie, Patel-Brown Gallery, Toronto, ON
Abandon the Concept of Authenticity, MKG127, Toronto, ON (solo)
A Practical Guide to Localization, Open Studio, Toronto, ON
Nations by Artists, Art Museum of the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON (commission)
2021
Tokens of Appreciation, Centre 3, Hamilton, ON
Artifacts on the Horizon, Patel-Brown Gallery, Toronto, ON
GTA (Greater Toronto Artists), Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON (publication)
Double Gazebo, Varley Art Gallery, Markham, Canada (public art commission)
Bureau of Aesthetics, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine, FL
2020
Bureau of Aesthetics, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada 2019
Bureau of Aesthetics, Kadist, San Francisco, CA
Politics of Place, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY (catalog)
2018
Double Shift; performance, Nocturne festival, Halifax, NS
The Racial Imaginary Institute: On Whiteness; The Kitchen, New York, NY
Have We Met? Dialogues on Memory and Desire; Stamps Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI