Jason DeMarte is an emerging artist teaching as a tenure track faculty in photography at Eastern Michigan University. He received his B.F.A. in Photography from Colorado State University and his M.F.A in Photography from the University of Oregon. DeMarte's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums, both nationally and internationally. He is currently represented by Rule Gallery in Denver Colorado and is part of the Photographers Showcase at Photo-Eye Gallery in Santa Fe. His work has appeared in journals, textbooks and publications including; Photography Now, Photo Review, the Wynwood Arts Magazine, British Journal of Photography, the Black Warrior Review, and the Oxford American. Some of Jason's recent exhibitions include being the featured artist in a show titled The Museum of Un-natural History at Clamp Art Gallery in NYC and solo exhibitions at Rule Gallery in Denver Colorado and Wessell Synman Gallery in Cape Town South Africa. Jason was just awarded the Garry B. Fritz image-maker award at this year’s national Society of Photographic Education conference in Atlanta Georgia.
Select exhibitions - (*) indicates Solo/Two person exhibition
2011
* Detroit Center of Photography, Panacea, Detroit MI.
Gallery Project, Apocalypse, Ann Arbor MI.
Gallery Project, Food for Thought, Ann Arbor MI.
Anton Art Center, Mystic and Mysticism, Mount Clemens, MI
*The Art Institute of Wisconsin, Utopic, Milwaukie WI
Kendall Gallery, Spinning Yarns, traveling exhibition, Grand Rapids, MI
University of St. Francis's Lupke Gallery, Spinning Yarns, traveling exhibition Fort Wayne, IN
Gallery 44 Toronto Canada, International Exchange Project, Toronto, Canada.
SoftSpot. (un)seen and (un)heard, www.soft-spot.net Online Exhibition
Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography, Artist’s Choice, Detroit MI.
Kendall Galleries, College of Art and Design of Ferris State University, Spinning Yarns Grand Rapids, MI.
Ford Gallery, New Faculty Exhibition, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti MI.
2010
Los Angeles Center of Exhibitions, Open Daybook, L.A. CA.
*Wessel Snyman Creative, Utopic, Cape Town South Africa.
ClampArt , The Museum of Unnatural History. NYC.
1366 space Midnite Snacks, Chicago, IL
2009
* Rule Gallery, Utopic, Denver, CO
Rule Gallery, Red at Rule, Denver, CO
Chelsea Galleria, Earth Part Two / Art Basel, Miami, FL
Santa Fe Community College Gallery, University of New Mexico Faculty exhibition, Santa Fe, NM
Ghost Print Gallery, Midnite Snacks, Richmond, VA
USSA Gallery, Midnite Snacks, Brooklyn, NY
Fraction Magazine Online Journal, The Un-natural Nature of Food (Online Juried Exhibition) 7/09
McComas Hall Gallery, Faculty exhibition, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS
2008
Photographic Center Northwest, PhotoVision Invitational Auction, Seattle, WA
Meridian Museum of Art, New Perspectives, Meridian, MS
Chelsea Galleria, Solitary States, Miami, FL
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art. LACDA Top 40, Los Angeles, CA
Chelsea Galleria, Rollover Minutes, Miami, FL
*Pacific Northwest Center for Photography, Plates to Pixels, Featured Artist (Online duel artist exhibition)
Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court, Biannual Exhibition, Albuquerque, NM
2007
Chelsea Galleria, Barely Legal, Miami, FL
Gallery 1401, Photo Review, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA (International juried exhibition/publication)
Chelsea Galleria, Global Warning, Miami, FL (Featured Artist)
Pacific Northwest Center for Photography, Plates to Pixels (Online international juried exhibition)
New Life Shop Gallery, Digital onsite exhibition, Berlin, GER
Trahern Gallery, Terminal, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN (International juried exhibition)
McComas Hall Gallery, Faculty exhibition, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS