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.
cv The Invitational, Kunsthalle Projects, Brooklyn 2009 Urban, SAKS, Geneva (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 (Sept. 9, 1999), pp. F1, F7 (ill. p. F7) Cate McQuaid, exhibition review, Boston Globe (October 8, 1998), pp. D1, D6 (ill. p. D6) Christine Temin, “Drawing with a Loose Definition at the BCA”, Boston Globe (December 6, 1997), pp. C1, C4
Snippets, Sampling, Static, Rubenstein Gallery, New York, curated by Cora Cohen 2008 New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA, curated by David Boyce Summer Mixtape Volume One, Exit Art, New York, curated by Herb Tam 2007 String Show, Greene Naftali, New York, curated by Josh Smith 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. A Conversation, Marvelli Gallery, New York, curated by Michael St. John 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 Andrea Marquit Fine Art, Boston (solo)
(ill. p. C1) 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: Boston Public Library
and Mixit Print Studio, 2001, ill. p. 48 COLLECTIONS Boston Public Library, Department of Prints DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Webb School, Knoxville
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Black Rock Arts Article in Buffalo Rising
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