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:
2010 Around the Way El Museo Del Barrio NY, NY
Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition Socrates Sculpture Park L.I.C, NY
YLA #15: Consensus of Taste Mexic Arte Museum Austin, TX
Ludic Fuel Mosquito Hawk Gallery Shelter Island, NY
Troll Envoy Enterprises (CTRL + W33D) New York, NY
The Product of Exchange Sudhaus Berlin, Germany
Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement El Museo Del Barrio NY, NY
Global National : The Order of Chaos Exit Art NY, NY
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 Hecho A Mano: New Visions of Latino Contemporary Art Center for Latino Arts Boston, MA
Aparaciones Fantasmales Museo Ruffino Tamayo, Mexico City
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
2004 Brave New World McClain Gallery Houston, TX
2003 Animals Art Car Museum Houston, TX
The Big Show Lawndale Art Center Houston, TX
Dallas vs. Houston Plush Gallery Dallas, TX
2002 The Big Show Lawndale Art Center Houston, TX
2001 Friendly Mart Quick Stop Houston, TX
Awards:
2010 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Studio Residency
Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship
2007 Nadine Goldsmith Fellowship
Vermont Studio Center
2004 Artadia Houston Grant Finalist
Publications:
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