Education
2007  MFA Mason Gross School of the Arts
2003  BFA University of Houston

Exhibition
Solo:
2009  Perspectives: 167 Contemporary Arts Museum  Houston, TX
          Botched Simulacrum  McClain Gallery  Houston, TX
2008  Hunter Gatherer Receiver Gallery San Francisco, CA
          Cosmic Slut Gescheidle  Chicago, IL
          Impish Animal Okay Mountain  Austin, TX
2007  G*D  Project Gallery  New Brunswick, NJ
2006  Forever Developing Shrine Plush  Dallas, TX
          Repressed Burial Fantasy  Okay Mountain  Austin, TX
2005  Ultrabastard: marketing seminar  Cactus Bra Space  San Antonio, TX
          Absolute Destiny Apocalypse  Deborah Colton Gallery  Houston, TX
          Growth Hormone Mutation Make-Over  Plush  Dallas, TX
2004  Beast Taxidermy  CSAW   Houston, TX
2003  Romantic Poverty & Hunger Pains  Montgomery College  Conroe, TX

Group:
2009  Aparaciones Fantasmales  Museo de Arte de Zappopan, Guadalajara, MX
          Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement  Phoenix Art Museum, AZ
          Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement  Alameda Museum  San Antonio, TX
2008  Aparaciones Fantasmales Museo Ruffino Tamayo, Mexico City, MX
          Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement  LACMA Los Angeles, CA
          Children in Heat Lawndale Art Center  Houston, TX
2007  Art Club Gescheidle  Chicago, IL
          The Paul Nudd Curatorial Experience Western Exhibitions Chicago, IL
          Eyes Wide Open El Museo Del Barrio / The Armory  New York, NY
          The Dams 2 / Las Represas Universidad del Sagrado Corazón Puerto Rico
          Object  UT at Dallas, TX
2006  Manic & Wasted  Swing Space NYC, NY
          Debut  The Texas Firehouse  LIC, NY
          Stop Trashing Houston  Versionfest Chicago, IL
          La Frontera  Gescheidle  Chicago, IL
2005  Young Latino Artists #10 Mexic Arte Museum Austin, TX
          Artadia Houston  Diverseworks   Houston, TX
          I-10 a Postmodern Route 66  McClain Gallery  Houston, TX
          New Cartoon  Deborah Colton Gallery  Houston, TX
          Woods  Negative Space  Houston, TX
2004  Temporary Contemporary  The Orange Show  Houston, TX
          Sloppy Slobbering Monster  The Bank  Kansas City, MO 
          In Situ  Allen’s Landing  Houston, TX
          Camp Lucky Summer of Carnage  Deborah Colton Gallery  Houston, TX
          Brothers  Fresh up Club Austin, TX
          New American Talent 19  ArtHouse  Austin, TX (Juror: Jerry Saltz, Senior Art Critic, Village Voice)
2004  Brave New World   McClain Gallery   Houston, TX
2003  Animals   Art Car Museum  Houston, TX
          The Big Show   Lawndale Art Center  Houston, TX (Juror: Jerry Saltz, Senior Art Critic, Village Voice)
          Dallas vs. Houston   Plush Gallery  Dallas, TX
2002  The Big Show   Lawndale Art Center   Houston, TX (Juror: Annete DiMeo Carlozzi, Curator at Blanton Museum in Austin, TX)
2001  Friendly Mart   Quick Stop  Houston, TX

Awards:
2007  Nadine Goldsmith Fellowship
2004  Artadia Houston Grant Finalist

Residency:
2007  Vermont Studio Center

Publication: 
ArtLies Jan 2010 "Jason Villegas casts animal logos as invasive species" by Douglas Britt
Houston Chronicle Aug 26, 2009 "Perspectives 167: Jason Villegas" by D.L. Groover
Houston Press Oct. 20, 2009 "Polo by Jason Villegas" by Kelly Klassmeyer
LACMA  2008 Phantom Sightings: Art After The Chicano Movement exhibition catalog by Howard Fox, Rita Fox
LA Times Phantom Sightings: Art After The Chicano Movement
Art in America May 2007 "Jason Villegas at Dallas" by Charles Dee Mitchell
Cantanker Magazine May 20, 2006 “Okay Mountain: Jason Villegas” by Cherie Weaver
Glasstire: Texas Visual Art Online July 2005  Tire Iron 52   by Bill Davenport  
Glasstire: Texas Visual Art Online  Best of 2004  by Rachel Cook
New American Talent, The Nineteenth Exhibition, 2004  Arthouse, Exhibition Catalog
Austin American Statesman   Aug 11, 2005  “An exhibition of latino art-whatever that may be”  by Jeanne Claire van Ryzia
Dallas Observer  Feb 17, 2005 “Growth Hormone Mutation Make-over”  by Charrissa N Terranova
Dallas Observer April 24, 2003 “Urban Brawl, It’s Houston vs. Dallas”  by Annabelle Massey Helber
Houston Press  March 3, 2005  “New Cartoon”   by Kelly Klaasmeyer
Houston Press  Feb 10, 2005 “Woods”  by Kelly Klaasmeyer
Houston Press  Nov 25, 2004 “Temporary Insanity”  by Steven Devedanam
Houston Press  Nov 4, 2004  “No Virgins, No Velvet”   by Josh Harkinson
Houston Press  May 20, 2004 “New World Order”  by Steven Devedanam
Houston Press  July 18, 2002 “The Biggest and the Baddest”  by Kelly Klaasmeyer

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