Born in New Zealand and currently residing in Nelson, New Zealand.
For over 30 years Jason McCormick has painted with acrylic and oil applied with brush, sponge and roller on canvas or paper. Jason has extended his art practice that incorporates constructed photography – constructing scenes by building scale models of structures, and then photographing the models in various constructed compositions as both stills and stop-motion moving images.
This direction has led Jason to explore themes of ‘Power and Control’ and investigating the merging of boundaries between what is real and unreal, creating an illusionary space that aims to establish the uncanny through the transformation of the familiar to the unfamiliar.
In 2015 Jason completed, and achieved the Master’s Degree of Art and Design at AUT (Auckland University of Technology). Post Graduate Diploma of Art and Design was awarded at the end of the first year of the Master’s Degree. Obtained the Bachelors Degree of Arts and Media at NMIT (Nelson Marlborough institute of Technology), in 2012.
Exhibition History:
Quite Dog Gallery, Nelson “Duplicity” Solo Exhibition
Millennium Public Art Gallery, Blenheim “Far Too Close…” Solo Exhibition
The NZ Academy of Fine Arts “26th Annual Wallace Art Awards 2017” – group exhibition
McKee Gallery – Light Nelson Exhibition – Group Exhibition
Atkins Gallery “Cross Currents: Contemporary Nelson Artists” – group exhibition
Pah Homestead “26 Wallace Art Awards” – group exhibition
Waikato Museum “2016 National Contemporary Art Award” – group exhibition
The Refinery Gallery “Worth” – – group exhibition
Complete Master’s Degree and Post Graduate Diploma in Arts and Design through AUT
Complete Bachelor of Arts and Media – Visual Arts and Design through NMIT
Suter Art Gallery – Autumn Group Exhibition
Commence Bachelor of Arts and media
Suter Art Gallery – Spring Group Exhibition
Refinery Gallery – “Red White and Blue” Solo Exhibition
McKee Gallery – “Works on Paper” Group Exhibition
34 Nile Street – “The Edge of Energy” Exhibition with Cate Murphy
Suter Art Gallery – Autumn Group Exhibition
Reflections Gallery, WOW Complex – “Voice” Group Exhibition
Suter Art Gallery – Autumn Group Exhibition
Appointed as Manager of Magenta Art Space
“Artist in Focus” at the Suter Foyer
Suter Art Gallery – Spring Group Exhibition
Waimea Estate Gallery – Solo Exhibition
Suter Art Gallery – Autumn Group Exhibition
Waimea Estate Gallery – Solo Exhibition
34 Nile Street – “New Work” Exhibition with Cate Murphy
Started Employment at Manager of Magenta Art Space
Millennium Public Gallery – Group Exhibition
34 Nile Street – Solo Exhibition
Suter Art Gallery – “Young Contemporary Artists” Group Exhibition
Selected as New Zealand entrant for the International Arts Horizons Exhibition in New York