Jason Baerg (born 1970) is a visual artist, media producer and educator who works in drawing, painting, film and new media. He is a member of the Métis Nation of Ontario and developed and implemented the national Metis arts program for the Vancouver Olympics (2010). Baerg lives and works in Toronto.

Career

Baerg was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He graduated from

Concordia University Concordia University ( French: ''Université Concordia'') is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1974 following the merger of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University, Concordia is one of the t ...

in Montreal with a Bachelors of Fine Arts and received a Masters of Fine Arts from

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...

. He taught at Rutgers University (2014-2016) and served as an adjunct instructor at the

Institute of American Indian Arts The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) is a public tribal land-grant college in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The college focuses on Native American art. It operates the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA), which is housed in the historic S ...

in Santa Fe, New Mexico (Fall of 2016). He is an assistant professor in Indigenous Practices, Contemporary Painting & Media Art at

OCAD Ontario College of Art & Design University, commonly known as OCAD University or OCAD, is a public art university located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The university's main campus is spread throughout several buildings and facilities within do ...

, Toronto.

Work

Baerg has exhibited his work nationally and internationally at such institutions as the Banff Centre, The FOFA Gallery at Concordia University in Montreal, the

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, and Art Basel Miami. In 2023, the

Thunder Bay Art Gallery The Thunder Bay Art Gallery is Northern Ontario's largest art gallery specializing in the work of contemporary Indigenous artists. It is located on the campus of Confederation College in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. The Thunder Bay Art Gallery is ...

showed ''Tawâskweyâw ᑕᐋᐧᐢᑫᐧᔮᐤ / A Path or Gap Among the Trees'' which charted the key contributions Jason Baerg has made in the first 25 years of his practice, including interactive media projection pieces and laser cut painting installations. As a media producer, Baerg works in the Canadian television and film industry developing documentary and multimedia art projects with such broadcasters as APTN, SunTV and The

National Film Board of Canada The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; french: Office national du film du Canada (ONF)) is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary f ...

. He has won several art awards from the

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and the

Ontario Arts Council The Ontario Arts Council (OAC) is a publicly-funded Canadian organization in the province of Ontario whose purpose is to foster the creation and production of art for the benefit of all Ontarians. Based in Toronto, OAC was founded in 1963 by On ...

. Baerg has also sat on national art juries for the Canada Council for the Arts and

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and the Ontario Arts Council. He received a Quebecor Production Fellowship to the Banff New Media Institute (2006) and in 2008 won the prestigious Emerging Artist Award for the Premier's Awards for Excellence in the Arts, granted on behalf of the Ontario Ministry of Culture.

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External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20111001213614/http://www.subtletechnologies.com/2008/?page_id=219
Hyperallergic article on performance during Baerg's MFA thesis show
{{DEFAULTSORT:Baerg, Jason Living people 1970 births Concordia University alumni Canadian multimedia artists Canadian LGBT artists Academic staff of OCAD University First Nations artists Artists from Saskatchewan New media artists LGBT First Nations people 21st-century Canadian LGBT people

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