Jason Hackenwerth

EDUCATION

2003 Savannah College of Art and Design MFA Painting

1998 Webster University, St. Louis, MO BFA Printmaking

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 Dance Motherfucker, The Factory St. Petersburg, FL

Empire, Arts Center Sarasota, FL

Realm, Oklahoma City University

Dark Matter, Creative Pinellas. FL

2022 Wreck Of The Hesperus, Coastal Creative. FL

Cosmic Energy, Klamp Art, Korea

2021 Armada, Creative Pinellas. FL

Cove, Tampa International Airport

2020 Firebird, Loews Hotel Ballroom, Chicago IL

Reluctant Goddess, Eckerd College, FL

2019 Sunflower, SCAD Sidewalk Arts Festival Savannah GA

2018 Flame, Cuidad De Las Ideas, Puebla Mexico

Levitant, Eckerd College, FL

Bloom, Pátio Batel, Curitiba, Brazil

Animal Soul, Brookfield Place, NY

Event Horizon, National Museums Scotland

Skyward, Dubai Mall, Dubai.

Crystal Cortex, New Children’s Museum San Diego CA.

2017 Nest, Hambidge Art Center Atlanta, GA

Animal Soul. Los Angeles CA

2016 Message for Nineveh, Texas A&M Corpus Christi

2015 Summerflugl, Technopark, Zurich, Switzerland

Lagoon II, J Terminal Gallery Miami International Airport Galleries

2014 Fleeting Innocence, Museum of Fine Art St. Petersburg, FL

Lagoon, J Terminal Gallery Miami International Airport Galleries

Aviary, Guggenheim Museum, NY

2013 Corona, Abu Dhabi International Science Festival, Abu Dhabi

The Dance of The Honey Bee, Manchester England

Pisces, Edinburgh International Science Festival, National Museum Scotland

Song of The Silken Mermaid, Skybox, Philadelphia, PA

2012 Cloud Cave, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Return of Quetzalcoatl, Museum of Oxacan Painters, Oaxaca Mexico

The Tempest, Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, SC

Trinity, Webster University, St. Louis, MO

2011 Peter and The Wolf, Peter B. Lewis Theater, Guggenheim Museum, NY

Alpha Omega, Greenbox Arts Festival, Green Mountain Falls, CO

And Then There Were None, Hong Kong Art Fair, Hong Kong

Posy, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA

Nucleotide, TED, Long Beach, CA

Untitled installation, Tennessee Technological University, TN

Untitled installation, Bergdorf Goodman, New York, NY

2010 Lions and Lambs, Creative Oklahoma, Cox Center, OK

Cocoon, City Arts Center, Oklahoma City, OK

Tide of Poseidon, Harper College, IL

Megamite, Natural History Museum, Los Angeles, CA*

2009 High Line Megamite, New York, NY*

Titan and The Fireflies, The Skybox, Philadelphia, PA

Micro-Macro, Firehouse Gallery, BCA, Burlington, VT

Cochleapods, Herron Gallery, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN

Spectronomic Photoluxe, TED, Palm Springs, CA

2008 Megamites at MAD, Museum of Arts and Design, NY*

Prizefighter, Pulse Art Fair, NY

Predator and Pray, Cicele R. Hunt Gallery, St. Louis, MO

Phantoms, Navta Schultz Gallery, Chicago, IL

2007 The Madonna Project, Art Basel, Miami Beach, FL*

Artrageous, Bloomingdales, NY

Liminal Space, Lyons Wier Ortt, NY

The Sheppard, City Museum, St. Louis, MO

Megamite Army, Coachella Music Festival, CA*

2006 Megamite Army, Art Basel, Miami Beach FL*

The Light That Guides Us, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL

Orgasmoebic, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA

Summer Song, Jang Heung Art Park, Seoul Korea

Revenge of The Megadon, Peabody Museum, New Haven, CT

The Light That Guides Us, Navta Schultz, Chicago, IL

Dream of The Fisherman’s Wife, Diesel Denim Gallery, NY

Belly of The Beast, The Proposition, NY

Honeysuckle Labyrinth, Cipriani 42nd St. New Museum Gala, NY

2005 Megamite in Miami, Art Basel, Miami Beach*

Megamite in Manhattan, Deitch Projects, Art Star Parade*

Megamite Biennale Boogie, 51st Venice Biennale, Venice Italy*

Spawn, SCAD, Savannah, GA

2004 Untitled installation, scope Art Show, Miami Beach, FL*

Untitled installation, scope Art Show, London

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 Karst Grounds, Tempus Projects. Tampa FL

Klamp Art, Busan Art Fair. Korea

2021 Armada, Arts Annual, Creative Pinellas, FL

2019 Terra Bifurcate, Creative Pinellas Arts Annual Saint Petersburg FL

2018 Cauldron Veil, The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA

2017 Play, Taubman Museum Roanoke VA.

Skyway, Tampa Museum of Art. FL

Play, Taubman Museum of Art Roanoke, VA

2016 Art 31, Art and History Museums, Maitland, FL

2014 Art in Action, Louisiana Museum of Art and Science, LA

2013 Cloud Cave, Art Experiment, Garage for Contemporary Culture, Moscow

Motus, DeFine Art, SCAD, Savannah, GA

2012 Biomimicry, Wiseman Art Museum, Target Studio, Minneapolis, MN

2010 The Honey Tree, Islip Art Museum, NY

Quetzalcoatl, New Children’s Museum, San Diego, CA

Venus, New Children’s Museum, San Diego, CA

The Garden, Art Space, NY*

Agartha, New Children’s Museum, San Diego, CA

2009 Return of Trilodon, New Children’s Museum, San Diego, CA

Ecstasy of The Scarlet Empress, UICA, Grand Rapids, MI

2007 Leviathan, LIC Sculpture Show, Socrates Sculpture Park, NY

2006 Balloonery, Riverside Art Museum, CA

Ghosts and Machines, Rush Arts, NY

Happy Birthday, Insa Art, Seoul, Korea

2005 Multiple Partners, Pablo’s Birthday, NY

Waterways, Vara Global, Venice Italy

Elastic Boundaries, Red Gallery, SCAD, Savannah, GA

2004 From Here to There, Margaret Thatcher Projects, NY

20th Anniversary Show, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO

Hard and Soft, Margaret Thatcher Projects, NY,

Everything You Want To Know About Art, Elliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis, MO

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2019 Arts In, Creative Pinellas Podcast

2018 The Scotsman, “Air Time” (April 7,2018)

2016 Maria Muñoz. “The Ephemeral Quest For Inner Joy” Metal Magazine 10th

Anniversary issue (May 2016)

2014 Kino, Carol. “High Inflation” Art Desk (Summer 2014)

2013 Kikes, Gini. “Latex Dreams” American Craft (January 2013)

2012 Bischoff, Dan. “The Floating World of Jason Hackenwerth” Surface Design

Journal (Fall 2012)

Pensom, Paul. “Hi-Rez: Jason Hackenwerth” Creative Review (June, 2012)

Branch, Kathryn. “Off The Deep End” New York Times Magazine (March 29,

2012)

2011 Alles, Chantal. “Crazy Art” Cambridge, UK: Vivays Publishing (2011)

2010 Bates, Chris, Meegan Booth, and Sean O’Keeffe. Australia: “Making Art

Connections” McGraw-Hill (2010)

2009 Maynard, Micheline. “Eyes On The ArtPrize” New York Times (Oct 8, 2009)

Das Kunstmagazin (December, 2009)

2008 Hackenwerth, Jason. Interviewed by Flora Lictman. “Pick of the Week: Giant

Balloon Sculptures” National Public Radio, Science Friday (October 17, 2008)

London Metro News (October 15, 2008)

Russell, Stefene. “He’s Lofty”St” Louis Magazine (March, 2008)

2007 Pablo I.A. “Jason Hackenwerth: Light Art” Belio Magazine, (June, 2007)

Art In America, “Jason Hackenwerth” (April, 2007)

Castro, Jan. “Revenge of The Megadon” Sculpture Magazine, (April, 2007)

2006 Camper, Fred. “Balloon Man” Chicago Reader (August, 2006)

West, Daniel. “Dream of The Fisherman’s Wife” Icon Magazine, (August 2006)

2005 Gary Shapiro, “an Ascending Talent” New York Sun, (June 30, 2005)

LECTURES/VISITING ARTIST/AWARDS

2022 Creative Pinellas Professional Artist Grant

2018 Creative Pinellas Professional Artist Grant

2016 SCAD Visiting Artist Lecture series

2014 SCAD Emerging Alumnus Award

2012 Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN

Redux Studios, Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, SC

2011 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Inc. Grant recipient

2009 SCAD, Atlanta

IUPUI, Indianapolis

2005 Scope Roving Artist Grant

2003 New York Work Space Residency, SCAD