MFA. Yale School of Art. Master of Fine Arts, painting department (2000)

BFA. School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Bachelor of Fine Arts, with a focus on painting, drawing, sculpture and desktop publishing (1995)

High School Diploma. Houston High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (1991)

Exhibits-

Aqua Art Miami, Thomas Robertello Gallery, Miami, FL ( Dec. 5th-9th, 2007)

Return of the Masters, Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY ( Nov.17- Dec. 16th, 2007)

Dramatis Personae, Alcove, New York, NY ( Nov.1- Jan. 5th, 2007/8)

Twilight Kingdom, Open Skies COCA, Esprit Park, San Franicisco, CA (Oct.19- 21, 2007)

Bad Spock Drawings Project, creator, curator, and contributor, 2006

2007 Bridge Art Fair Chicago, Thomas Robertello Gallery,Chicago, IL (April 26 - 30, 2007)

Tetragrammatron: 10 years of Art, The John Slade Ely House Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT (Dec. 9, 2006 – Jan.21 , 2007)

Welcome the Masters, Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY ( Nov.18- Dec. 16th, 2006) http://www.secretprojectrobot.org/

Newark Between Us, Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ (Oct. 22 – December 17, 2006)

Tetragrammatron: 10 years of Art, Newspace Gallery, Manchester, CT (Oct. 26– Dec.1, 2006)

The Kala Series, Thomas Robertello Gallery, Chicago, IL (Oct. 20 - Nov. 25, 2006)

Caveman Robot at Comiccon 2006, San Diego, CA (July 19- 23, 2006

The Brick Bellistic Billyburg Battle of the Bands for A Billion Bucks! The Brick Theater, Brooklyn, NY (June 11th, 2006)

Nova Art Fair, City Suites Hotel, Chicago, IL (April 14 - 30, 2006)

Introductions, Thomas Robertello Gallery, Chicago, IL (April 27 - June 10, 2006)

Adventures of Caveman Robot: The Musical, The Brick Theater, Brooklyn, NY (April 8- May 13, 2006)

Facing Newark Installation Exhibition , Newark Arts Council , Newark, NJ (Oct.16 - Nov. 13, 2005)

Circus Punks Rule NYC Show, Toy Tokyo's The Showroom, New York, NY (Oct.1 - 31, 2005)

GO FIGURE!
Jet Artworks - Aug. 31- Oct 8, 2005 - 2108 R street nw, Washington DC

Mothership, Mt.Royal/Artscape, Baltimore, MD (July 15- 24, 2005)

Caveman Robot at Comiccon 2005, San Diego, CA (July 13- 17, 2005)

Trashsure 32 Mercury at the Crossroads
Jet Artworks - Abandoned July 1st, 2005 - 2108 R street nw, Washington DC

A Feast Unknown!
a Multi-Media/Experimental Film cycle adapted from the book by Philip Jose Farmer, The Brick Theater, Brooklyn, NY (June 6 - July 3, 2005)

First Annual Huron Pier Invitational Boat Launch & Bar-B-Q, Brooklyn, NY (May 21, 2005)

Nova Young Art Fair, Bridge Magazine. Chicago, IL. (April 28- May 1, 2005)

Divine Feminine Principle, Fahrenheit Gallery. Kansas City, Missouri (April 8-29, 2005)

The Trashures Project, essay on my Trashures and Duchamp published on Tout-Fait: The Marcel Duchamp Studies Online Journal (March 2005)

Untamed Beauty: Kala Versus the World of Man, Suitable. Chicago, IL. (Nov. 20- Dec. 18, 2004)

Object Endowment, Newspace Gallery, Manchester, CT (Novemeber 11– December 9, 2004)

LUCIFER IS JESUS or HOLY FRANKENSTEIN! A History of God, Hell, and Other Gnostic Flaptrap.
Wrote and performed a multi-media lecture of infernology and Gnosticism, The Brick Theater, Brooklyn, NY (July 31 - Aug. 21, 2004)

Caveman Robot at Comiccon 2004, San Diego, CA (July 13- 17, 2004)

2004 CAC Juried Exhibition, Contemporary Artist Center. North Adams, MA. (May 1– May 31, 2004)

Moravian College Art Faculty Show, Payne Gallery. Bethlehem, PA. (March 18– April 11, 2004)

The Armory Show 2004, Kenny Schachter ConTEMPory. New York, NY. (March 12 – March 15, 2004)

scopeNew York 2004, Cristine Wang Gallery. New York, NY. (March 12 – March 15, 2004)

The God Show, Newspace Gallery, Manchester, CT (February 26 – March 26, 2004)

Holiday Spectacular, curated by Tom Sachs, Printed Matter, Inc.New York, NY. (Nov. 22 – Dec. 23, 2003)

La Superette, Deitch Projects and Participant Inc. New York, NY, (Dec.14, 2003) (Dec. 20th, 2003)

Wadlow, at Automatic Vaudville in the Arsnova Theater. New York, NY. (April 15, 2003)

Bell/Young: Over and Beyond, The Pond, Chicago, IL. (March 28 - May 3, 2003)

Bad Touch , Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL. (Dec. 12- Jan. 5, 2002-3)

Trashsures, New York, NY (Summer 2002- ongoing)

Garden, with Doug Young, John Connelly Presents, Brooklyn Front Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (May 18th- June 14th)

Twilight/Journey,Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, MA (Apr. 5-26, 2002)- one person show

911 Show, Kentler International Drawing Space Brooklyn, New York (Nov. 9 ­ Nov. 30, 2001)

Everyone, Everywhere, Everything, and other drawings, Norfolk School of Art, Norfolk, CT (June 9- June 22, 2001)- one person show

New Plasma. Folin/Riva Gallery, New York, NY. (Dec.29th-Jan.31, 2001)

CAA New York Area MFA Exhibition. Hunter College Art Gallery, New York, NY. (Feb. 1-Mar. 11, 2000)

MFA Thesis Show. Yale School of Art Gallery, New Haven, CT. (Jan. 30 - Feb. 12, 2000)

MFA Show. Yale School of Art at Norfolk, Norfolk, CT. (May 28 - Jun. 20, 1999)

First Year Show. Yale School of Art Gallery, New Haven, CT. (Dec. 2 - Dec. 15, 1998)

Encyclopedia. Jason Bell and David Wells. Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL. (Oct. 29 - Nov. 31, 1995)

Unknown Chicago. Gallery 312, Chicago, IL. (June 23 - Aug. 5, 1995)

BFA show. S.A.I.C. White Tower Building, Chicago, IL. (May 6 - May 21, 1995).

Armed For Bear. Backburner Clearinghouse Gallery, Chicago, IL. (March 3 - April 15, 1995)

Cheap Art. Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, IL. (Feb. 10 - March 29, 1995)

The American Presidents: 42 Paintings by Jason Bell. Maxtavern, Chicago, IL. (Nov. 13, 1993 - Jan. 1, 1994)

The Artwork of Jason Bell and Doug Young. The Neo-Futurarium, Chicago, IL. (Nov. 1 - Dec. 4, 1993)

Teaching Employment

Artist in Residence, Bronx Charter School of the Arts, (Jan-June 2008) The Bronx, New York

Duties focus on teaching two 9 week classes in Printmaking and Sculpture, for grades K to 6 a total of 12 classes a week withover 300 students, along with classroom management and various school wide art projects.

Long Term Artist in Residence, Studio in a School (Oct. 2006- June 2007) New York, New York

PS 325: Duties focus on teaching doing art projects with grades 1 through 5, exposing students to the fundamentals of art making and materials, based on the Studio in a School program and the DOE Blueprint for Art instruction.

Visiting Professor of Fine Art: Moravian College (Aug. 2004 to May 2006) Bethlehem, PA

Duties focus on teaching semester long courses from beginning to advanced levels in Painting, Drawing, Color Theory, and Performance Art, involved development of students' technical skills and conceptual understanding. Multiple classes each semester in Drawing and Painting, as well as four semesters of Color Theory, two semesters of Performance Art, and an Intro to Digital Design summer class, along with supervising independent studies for students in Art History, Comic Book Publication, and Painting for advanced students. Conducted course advisement to individual students, organized student performance showcases and film screenings, and gave demonstrations on documenting and archiving studio projects.

Visiting Artist and Critic:

• School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Nov.22, 2004) Chicago, IL
• Northern Illinois State University (Nov.18, 2004) DeKalb, IL
• Yale Summer School of Art at Norfolk (June 2- June 3, 2004) Norfolk, CT

Adjunct Professor, Lehigh University Art Department (Aug. 2003 to May 2004) Bethlehem, PA

Two semesters of Introduction Design and Drawing for first year architecture and engineering students. Projects involved working from life, imagination, and photographic sources, with discussion of the merits and challenges associated with each. Giving individual and group critiques. Required each student to write a mid-term essay proposing their final project, give a verbal presentation of this project, and take an active part in critiquing their peers' work.

Adjunct Professor, Moravian College (Aug. 2002- to May 2004) Bethlehem, PA.

Duties focus on teaching semester long courses in Painting and Drawing at the college level, classes involved development of students' technical skills and conceptual understanding, working from life and imagination. Dealing with Figure, Still-life, Landscape, Portrait, Diagram, Collage and Abstraction. Assigning reading, giving slide lectures, and giving critiques.

Guest Speaker: Pennsylvania Library Association of America,

Spring Conference May 22, 2003 McShea Student Center, DeSales University Center Valley, PA:

The Crisis of Graphic Novels: A History and Introduction. Included a history of comics as an art/media form, including the political and cultural factors that relegated it to a lesser or childish art form. Covering form versus content, the medium and its message(s), the worldview of graphic novels and comics as a sequential art form in printed form.

Art Teacher Assistant: Yale School of Art (Aug. 1999- Jan 2000) New Haven, CT.

Duties focus on assisting and teaching a college level Intermediate Drawing Class, classes' involved development of students technical skills and conceptual understanding, working from life and imagination.

Art Teacher Assistant: Yale Summer School of Art at Norfolk (May 1999- July 1999) Norfolk, CT.

Duties focus on assisting and teaching a six week Drawing course, Giving critiques and assisting in the general running and organization of the summer undergrad program.

Awards

Nominated for the The Louis Comfort Tiffany (2007)

Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship (2000)

Merit Scholar, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1991-1995)

Quill and Scroll Society for Scholastic Journalists, National Editorial Cartoon contest, First Prize (1991)

Houston Chronicle Editorial Cartoon contest, First Prize (1990)

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Collections

Jenny Holzer

Philip Denny

Mario Diacono

Ida and Achille Maramotti

Paul Nudd

Scott Shaw!

Thomas Robertello

Jeff Pezzati

Paul Spiteri

Valerie Hammond

Scott Wolniak

Chris Uphues

Mel Zerman

Sammel Messer

Maria Carlson

The Dennis Ury Estate