Jason Dunda
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In his new gouache drawings, Jason Dunda blends landscape and figuration to construct worlds populated by anthropomorphic geography. Dunda invents rollinghills and steep cliffs based upon what he considers 'critters' - badgers, chinchillas, chipmunks, and other small furbearing beasts. These hybrid rodent landforms are at once miniature and gigantic, natural and simulated, ephemeral and enduring. With a limited but sophisticated colour palette Dunda takes his visual cues for this series from various types of illustration, from Walt Disney to William Audobon.
A suite of oil paintings are constructed from a mixture of imagery sourced from life, obtained from photographs, or appropriated from other paintings.
Through the distortion of scale and the manipulation of spatial illusion, the works are convincingly impossible.
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Artist CV
Jason Dunda
born 1972, Toronto
lives and works in Chicago
Education
1999 to 2001 Master of Fine Arts, Painting and Drawing, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1991 to 1995 Honours Bachelor of Fine Arts, York University, Toronto
Solo Exhibitions
2009 “No substantial advantage to mankind,” Kasia Kay Art Projects, Chicago
2008 Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto
2006 “A Little Present For Friends and Friendly People: In the Form of a Miscellaneous Discourse by a Poor Illiterate Mechanic,” Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto
2004 “Things That Look Like Other Things,” Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto
2002 “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart,” Bus Gallery, Toronto
2001 “Charming Holidays,” Katharine Mulherin Gallery, Toronto
2000 “Fantastic,” Bus Gallery, Toronto
1999 “Joy $1.00,” Bus Gallery, Toronto
“Garnish,” Bus Gallery, Toronto
“Lucky Best Wash,” Red Head Gallery, Toronto
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2008 “Introduction: Future Dialogues,” Dean Project, New York
TAG Gallery, Nashville
“Exporting Pop: A Western Fantasy,” Dean Project, New York; Kuwait Art Foundation, Dubai
Locket Gallery, Chicago
2007 “Deborah Boardman: Studio Practice,” Koscielak Gallery, Chicago (guest artist)
“O Pathetic Fallacy,” Green Lantern, Chicago
2006 “Wanted,” Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto
“You Don’t Wanna Miss This Shit,” Drake Hotel, Toronto
2005 “Experiment 400/5,” Gallery 400, Chicago (co-curator)
2004 “Here and Back,” James Baird Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland
“Small Victories,” Modest Contemporary Art Projects, Chicago
2003 “The Summer Show,” Gallery 312, Chicago
“Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Comics in Contemporary Art,” Contemporary Arts Museum,
Houston; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; Henie-Onstad Art Centre, Oslo, Norway
2002 “Reconfiguring Pop,” Gallery 2, Chicago (catalog)
“Aficionado,” the Pond, Chicago
“Let’s Get Lost,” Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, Ontario
“More than Meets the Eye: Exploring Works of Art,” Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Kingston,
Ontario
2001 “Small Treasures,” Fassbender Gallery, Chicago
“Talking To Strangers,” various locations, Chicago
“Half & Half,” 1920 N. Kedzie Parkway, Chicago
“Modest@1926,” 1926 Exhibition Studies Space, Chicago (curator)
Thesis Exhibition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
“Gift Horse,” 1409 N. Greenview, Chicago
Bibliography (selected)
“The North Georgia Gazette,” Green Lantern Press, 2009.
August-September 2007. New American Paintings, pp. 44-47.
June-August 2004. Spaid, Sue. “Splat Boom Pow!” artUS, p. 47.
June 5, 2004. Dault, Gary Michael. “More than meets the eye in artist’s alternate world.” The Globe and Mail, p.R16
May 29, 2004. Osborne, Catherine. “Art under the topiary.” The National Post.
March 21, 2004. Keller, Julia. “How Supergirl influenced art galleries, world peace.” The Chicago Tribune
August 8, 2003. Camper, Fred. “Critic’s Choice.” The Chicago Reader
Fall 2001. New American Paintings, pp. 122-3
June 2, 2001. Dault, Gary Michael. “Dunda and Penaloza at Katharine Mulherin.” The Globe and Mail, p.C10
Grants and Awards
2007 Community Arts Assistance Program grant, City of Chicago
1999 Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation Grant
Ontario Arts Council Individual Visual Arts Grant
Toronto Arts Council Level I Visual Arts Grant
1998 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
Collections (selected)
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario
Andreas Brüning, Düsseldorf
David Cherone, Chicago
John Corbett, Chicago
Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto
Suzanne Martineau, Chicago
Todd Oldham, New York
Shannon Stratton, Chicago
Teaching Experience
2008 to present Instructor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Drawing Department
2007 to present Instructor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Liberal Arts Department
2005 to present Instructor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, First Year Program
2001 to present Instructor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Early College Program
2001 to 2004 Residency artist, Gallery 37, Chicago
Artist Talks
2006 Gallery 400, Chicago
2003 Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Gallery 312, Chicago
2002 North Central College, Naperville, Illinois
2001 Panelist, Universities Art Association of Canada, Montreal, PQ
Related Experience
2006 to present Correspondent, Bad at Sports podcast
2001 to present Member, Chicago Public Art Group
2000 to 2004 Director, Modest Contemporary Art Projects, Chicago
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