Bio
Jason Wright is an arts educator and artist based in Vancouver, Canada. Jason has taught with the University of Regina, Arts Umbrella, and the Vancouver School Board and has been a Kwantlen Polytechnic University faculty member since 2017. He has participated in numerous teaching initiatives including the Vancouver Biennale/ Liceo Boston Open Borders project in Bogota, Columbia, Arts Umbrella Teen Scholarship Program and Arts Umbrella Summer Teen Intensive (with the CAG and SFU). Jason has presented his art education research with the National Art Education Association, the International Society for Education through Art World Congress, (most recently in Canakkale, Turkey in 2023), and the College Art Association (most recently in Chicago in 2026). His research and writing have appeared in Art Education, The International Journal of Art Education, and the anthology publication, Canadian Culinary Imaginations.
Jason's research interests include repetition and ritual in contemporary drawing, food culture, the pedagogical turn in contemporary art practice, amateurism and skill, and the comic voice. Jason has participated in numerous artist residencies including The Arteles Center (Finland), the Ottawa School of Art, Heima Artist Residency (Iceland), and Greywood Arts (Ireland), and has received multiple BC Arts Council and Canada Council grants to support his art practice.
Jason has a BFA in Visual Arts from Simon Fraser University, an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Regina, and a Bachelor of Art Education from the University of British Columbia.
Contact
jason.wright@kpu.ca
Image Credit
Some of the photography and documentation have been done by other folk.
The Sailorman Suite, Plating, as well as and we collapse as flesh within the angles of the room was documented by Collin Stumpf in Regina.
Drown was documented by Alan Hoffman.
The first 11 pictures from the 1995-2006 series are documented by Evan Lee.
Any other folk, I have either tried to find out who they were or have totally forgotten who they were. Or maybe I never knew to begin within. Who is to say? Anything relatively newish was taken by me. So there you are.