Jason Berlin Thomas
10480 SW Eastridge St. #92 Portland, OR 97225
360-431-0941 — — jasonberlinart@gmail.com
http://jasonberlinthomas.com

Education
Masters of Fine Arts in Visual Studies Pacific Northwest College of Art – Portland, OR
spring 2016
Bachelors of Fine Arts, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, Oregon 2013
Associates of Applied Science, Seattle Central Community College, Seattle, Washington 1994

Teaching Experience
Teaching
Drawing, Vintage illustration, beginning painting, alternative mark making.
Art Adventures middle school art camp grades 6th, 7th, and 8th. Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR. June 19th to august 19th 2017.
Mark Making workshop, Continuing Ed .Oregon College of Art and Craft,
Portland, OR – 1 day class 2017
Sketchbook intensive, Beginning acrylic painting Pre-college, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR – 1 week 2017

Teaching Assistant
Teaching assistant pre-college summer 2016 Pacific Northwest College of Art
Teaching Assistant fall 2015 Pacific Northwest College of Art – Portland, OR – 16 weeks ( 2 times weekly) Basic Drawing #2 – Roy Tomlison
Light Teaching Assistant spring 2015
Pacific Northwest College of Art – Portland, OR – 12 weeks (2 times weekly)
Observational Painting – Paul Missal
Teaching Assistant
Oregon College of Art and Craft – Portland, OR – 6/2013 and 6/2012
Painting from the Intuitive – Pat Wheeler
Teaching Assistant
Oregon College of Art and Craft – Portland, OR – 3/2013
Photo transferee techniques – Jeffery Barker

Accolades & Affiliations
Visiting Graduate Student Städelschule Frankfurt am Main, Germany June 2015
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Merit scholarship recipient 2016
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Merit scholarship recipient 2015
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Merit scholarship recipient 2014
Judge: Scholastic Art Awards Oregon 2016
Judge: Scholastic Art Awards Oregon 2014
Judge: Starlight Parade Portland, OR 2014
The Brannon – Boekleheide Award for the most outstanding graduating thesis student Oregon College of Art and Craft Portland, OR May 6 2013
Winner Oak Knoll Winery wine bottle design for the Portland Rose Festival 2013
Judge: Starlight Parade Portland, OR 2013
Gallery Advisory Committee Lower Columbia College Longview, WA 2008 -present
Member of Broadway Gallery Longview, WA 2001 to 2007

Publications
Ric Kasini Kadour, “Mail Art Show,” Kolaj no. 18 (2017) : 20.
Jeff Jahn “Jason Berlin + Alanna Risse at Rainmaker: Portlands best cultural cards”PORT:Portland art. January 4, 2017, .http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2017/01/alanna_risse_at.html .
Pacific Northwest College of Art “Museum, Gallery, Studio, A Field Study” 2015
Longview Daily News, Inside, “Heart in Art” July 14, 2013
Longview Daily News, This Day Connecting; section C, June 17, 2003
Longview Daily News, This Day Entertainment October 4, 2001
Photography published in “Hold Me Close” by Barry Thuma, ISBN#0-965838-1-9 March 2000

Artist in Residence
Rainmaker Artist Residency, Portland, OR. August 2016 – January 2017.
Caldera Arts Center, Sisters, OR. October. 2015

Lecture / Panels
“Queer / Failure”. Critical Theory, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR. Nov, 3, 2016
“Getting Started”. Senior Seminar, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland,OR. Sept, 28, 2016
“La Vie En Rose: Queer Aesthetic, Color Codes, Bundling, and Glitter”. MFA in Visual Studies Thesis Oral Defense, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR. May 18th, 2016

Curatorial
Dispersal mail art show at Rainmaker Artist residence 2016
Stall Gallery Tokyo – Popup 2016
Stall Gallery Portland, OR founder 2016 – present
Strange Meat, The Lodge Gallery @ Allied Works Portland, 2015 OR

Solo Shows
2016 Vergepdx Portland, OR.
2015 Manuel Izquierdo Sculpture Gallery @ Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
2013 Featured Artist, Broadway Gallery Longview, WA
2010 Lust, Cannibals Gallery Portland, OR
2009 Dirty Laundry, Cannibals Gallery Portland, OR
2006 The Antiquities, Splendor of the Male Image, The Rainbow Room Portland, OR
2003 Flotsum, Koth Gallery Longview, WA

Group shows
2016 Gallery 135 honor thy music rock and roll day of the dead Portland, OR
2016 Rainmaker Artist in residency exhibition 2016 Portland, OR
2016 Visual Studies Thesis Exhibition Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR
2016 Cavendish at Verge Gallery, Portland, OR
2016 Hybrid Salon Gallery 157 PNCA, Portland, OR
2015 Address_01 Address _02 Portland, OR
2015 Home / Less, Pacific Northwest college of Art Portland, OR
2015 Strange Meat, The Lodge Gallery @ Allied Works Portland, OR
2015 Terminus Klause, Worksound International Gallery Portland, OR
2014 Perfect Not So Perfect A PopUp, Red Star @ Hotel Monaco Portland, OR
2014 Day of the Dead, Guardino Gallery Portland, OR
2014 Altered Ground, The Lodge Gallery @ Allied Works Portland, OR
2014 Art On The Vine Portland, OR
2014 Annual Art Auction Cascade Aids Project Portland, OR
2014 Gallery 6 PDX small sculpture Portland, OR
2013 Day of the Dead, Guardino Gallery Portland, OR
2013 Little Things, Guardino Gallery Portland, OR
2013 Art On The Vine Portland, OR.
2013 Annual Art Auction, Cascade Aids Project Portland, OR
2013 Group show Thesis show Hoffman Gallery, and Thesis Exit show Portland, OR
2012 Group show Male Form Angst Gallery Vancouver, WA
2012 Group show Sex and Religion, Leslie Lohman Gallery New York, NY
2012 Annual Art Auction, Cascade Aids Project Portland, OR
2012 Group show Day of the Dead, Guardino Gallery Portland, OR
2012 Group show Hoffman Gallery OCAC Portland, OR
2011 Group show Project Runway Detroit, Janice Charach Gallery West Bloomfield, MI
2011 Group show Assemblage, Annie Meyer Artwork Gallery Portland, OR
2011 Annual Art Auction, Cascade Aids Project Portland, OR
2011 Art on the Vine, Oregon College of Art and Craft Portland, OR
2011 Group show Spread Ego, Place Gallery Portland, OR
2010 Group show Facing Fear, Launch Pad Gallery,Portland, OR
2010 Group show Day of the Dead, Cannibals Gallery Portland, OR
2010 Group show Revolutionary’s, Cannibals Gallery,Portland, OR
2010 Annual Art Auction, Cascade Aids Project Portland, OR
2010 Wonder Quest art benefit for Quest Center Portland, OR
2010 Group show 5th Annual Love, Show Launch Pad Gallery Portland, OR
2009 Group show Astoria Visual Art, Treasures of the Surreal Madre Astoria OR
2009 Group show The Family, Launch Pad Gallery Portland, OR
2009 Group show MK Gallery Portland State University, Portland, OR
2009 20 Years of Art the Matters Annual Art Action, Cascade Aids Project Portland, OR
2009 Group show 4th Annual Love, Show Launch Pad Gallery Portland, OR
2008 Group show Finnfest, Art Show Naselle, WA.
2008 Group show Connecting Waters Invitational Rose Center for the Arts, Lower Columbia College, Longview, WA.
2008 Group show Paper and Post, Library Square, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
2008 Group show D’Art Post,l La Chval/ The House, Agrentan, France.
2007 Group show Alumni Show, Lower Columbia College, Longview, WA
2005 Group show Local Color One, Lower Columbia College, Longview, WA
2003 Group show Artist and Muse, Breast Cancer Survivors Lower Columbia College, Longview, WA
2002 Group show Alberta Arts Pavilion/ Our Dream Gallery, Codex of Queer Art Portland, OR
2002 Group show Meat Annex, The Publics Response to Meat and Mark Ryden
California State University Fullerton Grand Central Art Center, Long Beach, CA
2001 Group show Connecting Waters, Lower Columbia College Longview, WA
1999 Group show Alumni Show Lower Columbia College, Longview, WA
1998 Polaroid Transfers Chapter 1, Longview, WA
1997 Group show, Koth Gallery, Longview, WA
1993 Group show Juried Show, Seattle Central College, Seattle, WA
1991 Group show Faces Lower Columbia College, Longview, WA
1990 Group show Melange Gallery, Seattle, WA
1989 Group show OK Gallery, Seattle, WA