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Jason Hughes, an artist, writer, and independent curator, was born in Jacksonville, Florida in 1978. Shortly after graduating in 1996, from Douglas Anderson School for the Arts, a high school in Jacksonville, FL, Hughes moved to Baltimore, MD and joined a group of other recent graduates in a 10,000 square-foot warehouse/loft located in the downtown area. During the next three years, Hughes and these fellow artists renovated the warehouse to create a number of artists’ live-and-work studios, including the soon-heralded 4,500 square foot exhibition space known as Gallery Four. The gallery’s inaugural exhibition opening occurred in spring 2000, and in 2002, the Baltimore City Paper honored it as “The Best Proof of Contemporary Art Life in Baltimore.”
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Armymen Mandala, 2006
In 2008, Hughes is featured in Issue 75 of New American Paintings and is currently in the midst of beginning a new mixed-use exhibition space in Baltimore called The Library. Hughes is also Exhibitions Coordinator for School 33 Art Center, a 501-C3 dedicated to supporting emerging and mid-career artists through exhibitions, artists’ in residence program, and education.
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Gallery Four has also received awards and honors from Baltimore Magazine and the Washington Post. In 2001, Hughes received several merit-based educational scholarships that enabled study at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD, as well as a 2003 semester at the New York Studio Program in conjunction with AICAD and the Parsons School of Art and Design in New York, NY. In December 2004, Hughes received his BFA in sculpture, cum laude, from the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he was among ten finalists for the prestigious Jacques and Natasha Gelman Travel Award. Hughes has since exhibited work at: the Museum of Contemporary Art in Merida, the Yucatan, Mexico; Vox Populi in Philadelphia, PA; Curator’s Office in Washington, DC; Maryland Art Place in Baltimore, MD; the Scope Art Fair in Miami Beach, FL and New York, NY; as well as Omni Art III in conjunction with Art Basel Miami Beach 2005, in Miami, FL. In 2006, Hughes had his first solo exhibition at Curator’s Office in Washington, DC; was awarded a fellowship to attend an artist residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst, VA; and was selected among eight finalists for the Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize. That same year his most recent curatorial project, Material Matters, for Maryland Art Places 25th Anniversary was honored as the “Best Gallery Show of 2006” as well as “#4 in The Year in Art Top 10” by the Baltimore City Paper.
Armymen Mandala (detail), 2006
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