Jason Duval
Jason Duval is an artist and filmmaker based in New York City and Buffalo, New York. He studied painting and photography at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and received his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Deeply shaped by the visual and material rhythms of New York, Duval’s work has evolved from painting and photography into filmmaking. After years of experimenting with analog photography, he now works primarily with 16 mm film, exploring the expressive potential of abstract form, texture, and light. His films, much like his earlier paintings, translate the layered experience of the urban environment — where traces of words, signs, and surfaces accumulate through daily observation — into poetic visual narratives.
Duval is the founder and director of Black Rock Arts in Buffalo, a platform dedicated to experimental film and contemporary art.
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Education
- M.F.A., School of Visual Arts, New York
- B.F.A., Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
Selected Exhibitions & Screenings
- 2025 — Music Is Art, Buffalo
- 2025 — Institute for Public Architecture, Public Film Series, Governors Island
- 2024 — A Day with Chinatown Basketball Club in Films, Metrograph, New York
- 2019 — A Fairly Secret Army, curated by George Gallery & wildpalms
- 2018 — Solo booth, ArtBO Bogotá, wildpalms, curated by Emiliano Valdez
- 2018 — Interiors, wildpalms, DC Open
- 2017 — Jason Duval and Lauriston Avery, Gallery George, Brooklyn, New York
- 2017 — Marlborough Chelsea, New York
- 2017 — Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Chicago
- 2016 — Between You and Me, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
- 2016 — This Is Our House, This Is Our Rules, Spring/Break Art Show, New York
- 2015 — The Valentine’s Day Cardiovascular, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
- 2014 — Edge of Continuation, Pablo’s Birthday, New York, curated by Pip Deely and Mark Brown
- 2014 — The Invitational, Kunsthalle Projects, Brooklyn
- 2009 — Urban, SAKS, Geneva (solo)
- 2009 — Snippets, Sampling, Static, Rubenstein Gallery, New York, curated by Cora Cohen
- 2008 — New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts, curated by David Boyce
- 2008 — Summer Mixtape Volume One, Exit Art, New York, curated by Herb Tam
- 2007 — String Show, Greene Naftali, New York, curated by Josh Smith
- 2007 — Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York (solo)
- 2006 — Regeneration Room, LMAK Projects, New York, curated by Franklin Evans
- 2005 — Old Paintings, Marvelli Gallery, New York (solo)
- 2004 — Beginning Here, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, curated by Jerry Saltz
- 2004 — A Conversation, Marvelli Gallery, New York, curated by Michael St. John
- 2004 — Band of Abstraction, Van Brunt Gallery, New York, curated by Joe Fyfe
- 2002 — Back to the Future, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, curated by Michael St. John
- 2001 — Marvelli Gallery, New York (solo)
- 2000 — Subject: Object, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, curated by David Row
- 1999 — Idioscapes, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, curated by Edmund Barry Gaither and Shelly Bancroft
- 1998 — Barbara Singer Fine Art, Boston (solo)
- 1997 — 15th Drawing Show, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts
- 1997 — Andrea Marquit Fine Art, Boston (solo)
Residencies
- 2006 — Webb School, Knoxville
- 1996 — Experimental Etching Studio, Boston
Curatorial Experience
- 2004 — Charmed, Lower East Side Girls Club, co-curated with Michael St. John
- 2003 — Shangri-La, Islip Art Museum, co-curated with Michael St. John
- 2002 — Back to the Future, Cynthia Broan Gallery, co-organized with Michael St. John
Bibliography
- Barbara MacAdam, “The New Abstraction,” ARTnews, April 2007, p. 113
- David Cohen, “Band of Abstraction,” exhibition review, New York Sun, July 22, 2004
- Capsule review, Art Listings, The New Yorker, July 16 & 23, 2001
- David B. Boyce, “Understudy gains lead…,” The Standard-Times, July 22, 2001
- Ken Johnson, Art Guide (capsule review), The New York Times, July 20, 2001
- Christine Temin, exhibition review, Boston Globe, September 9, 1999, pp. F1, F7
- Cate McQuaid, exhibition review, Boston Globe, October 8, 1998, pp. D1, D6
- Christine Temin, “Drawing with a Loose Definition at the BCA,” Boston Globe, December 6, 1997, pp. C1, C4
- Matt Murphy, exhibition review, ArtsMedia, January 1998, p. 20
Publications
- Lorimer St. Blues, Edition TM, New York, 2009
- Sinclair Hitchings et al., Proof in Print: A Community of Printmaking Studios, Boston Public Library and Mixit Print Studio, Boston, 2001
Collections
Webb School, Knoxville
Boston Public Library, Department of Prints
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
Bibliography
- Barbara MacAdam, “The New Abstraction,” ARTnews, April 2007, p. 113
- David Cohen, “Band of Abstraction,” exhibition review, New York Sun, July 22, 2004
- Capsule review, Art Listings, The New Yorker, July 16 & 23, 2001
- David B. Boyce, “Understudy gains lead…,” The Standard-Times, July 22, 2001
- Ken Johnson, Art Guide (capsule review), The New York Times, July 20, 2001
- Christine Temin, exhibition review, Boston Globe, September 9, 1999, pp. F1, F7
- Cate McQuaid, exhibition review, Boston Globe, October 8, 1998, pp. D1, D6
- Christine Temin, “Drawing with a Loose Definition at the BCA,” Boston Globe, December 6, 1997, pp. C1, C4
- Matt Murphy, exhibition review, ArtsMedia, January 1998, p. 20
Publications
- Lorimer St. Blues, Edition TM, New York, 2009
- Sinclair Hitchings et al., Proof in Print: A Community of Printmaking Studios, Boston Public Library and Mixit Print Studio, Boston, 2001
News
Black Rock Arts article in Buffalo Rising
Selected Work
Current
Jason Duval Screening at Black Rock Arts, Buffalo - Jason Duval will present his film A Few Minutes with the Chinatown Basketball Club as part of the program Public Joy! And Other Feelings! at Black Rock Arts in Buffalo.Exhibitions @ wildpalms
Sept 07 – Nov 11, 2018
A Fairly Secret Army – notes from NY
June 7th – August 4th, 2019