JASON EARL LORD
Vermont, 1973
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art, University of North Carolina–Greensboro NC
Minerva Scholar, 2024
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art, University of North Carolina– Chapel Hill NC
Graduation with Highest Honors and Highest Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa, 2022
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Figs and Factures, Pullen Arts Center, Raleigh NC, 2026 (upcoming)
Ghost Choir, Greensboro Project Space, Greensboro NC, 2026
A Tender House of Echoes, McColl Center, Charlotte NC, 2025-26
Interposed, with Leroi DeRubertis, Durham Arts Council, Durham NC, 2025
Plot Twist, Skylight Gallery, Hillsborough NC, 2025
Winter Psalms, The Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill NC, 2025
Multiplicity, Greensboro Project Space, Greensboro NC, 2024
Landmarks, with Linda Cato, Durham Art Guild, Durham NC, 2022
Gathering, Lump Gallery, Raleigh NC, 2022
The Indeterminate Geometry of Wandering, Attic 506, Carrboro NC, 2021
Drawing Room Presents: New Drawings by Jason Lord, Lump Gallery, Raleigh NC, 2021
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Reject the Null, curated by Annie Heisel, Richardson Family Gallery, Wofford College, Spartanburg SC, 2026 (upcoming)
ArtFields, Lake City SC, 2026
Painting and Her Woman, curated by Jodi Hays, David Lusk Gallery, Nashville and Memphis TN, 2026
AIR Showcase, McColl Center, Charlotte NC, 2025
The Thinking Path, curated by Anna Yeroshenko, Arts in the Park Festival, East Boston MA, 2025
Village Impulse, artist/co-director with Sterling Bowen, Birdland, Raleigh NC, 2025
Emerging Artists 2025 (online), Dodomu Gallery, 2025
MFA Thesis Exhibition, curated by Emily Stamey, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro NC, 2024
Durham Art Guild Annual Juried Exhibition, Truist Gallery, Durham NC, 2021-24
Open Source, curated by Sterling Bowen, Wilma W. Daniels Gallery, Wilmington NC, 2024; Sertoma Arts Center and Lump Gallery, Raleigh NC, 2023
Winter Exhibition (online, catalog), curated by Jenny Wu, I Like Your Work, 2024
upstART Gallery: a Jim Lee Project, Pop Box Gallery, Durham NC, 2023
Drawing Madness (online), Conversations with Artists, 2024
The Love Letter, curated by Bill Thelen, Lump Gallery, Raleigh NC, 2022
New Works, New Blood, curated by Dave Wofford, PS 118, Horse & Buggy Press, Durham NC, 2020-21
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Snapdragon Fund Project Grant (with support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts), Visual Arts Exchange, Raleigh NC, 2026
CERF+ Relief Grant, Craft Emergency Relief Fund, Brattleboro VT, 2025
North Carolina Arts Council Artist Support Grant, Durham Arts Council, Durham NC, 2025
Penland Winter Residency Fellowship, Penland School of Craft, Bakersville NC, 2025
Columbus School for Girls Endowment Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst VA, 2025
Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT, 2024
Windgate Distinguished Fellowship for Innovation in Craft, The Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap GA, 2024
California Journalism Award: Best Illustration, “Is Uberveillance Coming for Us All?” Zócalo Public Square, 2024
Summer Research Fellowship, University of North Carolina–Greensboro NC, 2023
Alexander Julian Prize, Chancellor’s Award for Studio Art, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill NC, 2022
Salisbury Family Excellence Research Grant, Honors Carolina, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill NC, 2021
NGA Teaching Fellowship, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 2019
RESIDENCIES
The Scrap Exchange, Durham NC, 2026
McColl Center, Charlotte NC, 2025
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst VA, 2025
Penland School of Craft, Bakersville NC, 2025
LEVEL Retreat, Chapel Hill NC, 2025
Pocosin Arts School of Fine Craft, Columbia NC, 2025
The Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT, 2024
The Peter Bullough Foundation, Winchester VA, 2024
The Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap GA, 2024
Greensboro Project Space, Greensboro NC, spring 2023; winter 2022, 2023
Drawing Room, Attic 506, Chapel Hill NC, June-October 2021
PUBLIC ART
Third Shift, Dorothea Dix Park, Public Art Commission, Raleigh NC, 2026, mural and sculptural installation using site-derived materials
Werkshop, Window installation, Downtown Durham Initiative and Weird Art Productions, Durham NC, 2025
SOCIAL PRACTICE/PROJECTS
{Re}HAPPENING with Carson Whitmore, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Black Mountain NC, 2026
Intersection Intervention, Greensboro NC, 2023-2024
SELECTED TALKS AND WORKSHOPS
Keynote Speaker, Art Educators of New Jersey (AENJ) Annual Conference, New Jersey, 2026 (upcoming)
Huts, Nests, & Other Small Sanctuaries, School of the Alternative, Black Mountain NC, 2026
Interdisciplinary Explorations: Black Mountain College, five-week workshop series, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh NC, 2026
The Liberatory Practice of Collage, Workshop, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh NC, 2025
Guest Artist, UNCG School of Art, book workshops and artist talk, Greensboro NC, 2025
Artist Talk, Winter Psalms, The Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill NC, 2025
Witch Books, Collage and Artist Books Workshop, Peter Bullough Foundation, Winchester VA, 2024
Artist Talk, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro NC, 2024
Echo Objects; Sacred Abstraction; Materiality, Artist-Led Tours, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh NC, 2022-24
Art and Ritual, Artist Talk, Duke University Department of Art and Art History, Durham NC, 2023
The Language of Line, Artist Talk and Workshop, Summer Arts and Design Intensive, University of North Carolina–Greensboro NC, 2023
Intersection Intervention, Artist Talk and Dialogue, College of Visual and Performing Arts, University of North Carolina–Greensboro NC, 2023
Experimental Mark-Making Workshop, Lump Gallery, Raleigh NC, 2022
Monster Drawing Rally, invited artist, North Carolina Museum of Art, 2022
Icons for a New World, Artist Talk, Department of Art and Art History, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, NC, 2022
PUBLICATIONS
The Gardan Journal, Issue 10, cover and p.6; 2026
Assembla Magazine, Issue 2, pp. 98-101; 2025
Pearl Press, Issue No. 21: Self-Portrait 2, p. 8, “there was a bird,” 2024
SELECTED TEACHING
Adjunct Professor, 3-D Design Foundations, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte NC, 2025
Faculty, Sculpture, Summer Arts and Design Intensive, University of North Carolina–Greensboro NC, 2025-26
Instructor, Design Foundations, Department of Art and Art History, University of North Carolina-Greensboro NC, 2023-24
Instructor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Black Mountain College (five-week workshop), North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh NC, 2026
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