Jason Middlebrook Jason Middlebrook was born in Jackson, Michigan in 1966. He received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA in 1994 and participated in the Whitney Independent Program, New York, NY from 1994 to 1995. Middlebrook has participated in numerous solo exhibitions including: Jason Middlebrook, Live with Less, University Art Museum, Albany, NY (2009); Jason Middlebrook, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY (2008); One Man's Trash is Another Man's Treasure, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL. (2007); A Serious Paradise, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2007); What is your hobby? The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY (2007); Craft in Contemporary Art, Curated by Evelyn C. Hankins, Robert Hull Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont (2007); Merit Badge 2, Rockland County Art Center, Rockland, NY (2007); Flow, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE (2007); Green Dreams, Curated by Anne Kersten and Christine Heidemann, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (2007); Winter Invitational, Curated by Wennie Huang, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY (2007); Traveling Seeds, Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York, NY (2007); Jason Middlebrook: Disturbed Sites , Lisa Dent Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2007); Live Building: The Recycling and Demolition of Wurm's Building, organized by Ciara Ennis, California Museum of Photography, UCR/ARTS block, Riverside, CA (2006); It's All So Black and White, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY (2006); Galleria Paolo Bonzano Artecontemporanea, Rome, Italy (2006); The Night Time is the Right Time , Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden (2006); Alchemical Primordiality , Curated by Gianluca Marziani, Galleria Pack, Milan, Italy (2005); The Provider, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY (2005); Past, Present, Future, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2005); The Beginning of the End, Aldrich Contemporary Museum of Art, Ridgefield, CT (2004); Outdoor sculpture project, Apsen Art Museum, Aspen CO (2004); APL #1, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York (2003); APL #2, Els Hannape Underground, Athens, Greece (2003); Empire of Dirt, Curated by Lorenzo Fusi, Palazzo Delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy (2003); De) - Composition, Art Statements, Art Basel Miami, Miami Beach, FL (2002); Nylon Gallery, London, England (2002); Dig (October 2001-January 2002), New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY (2001); Museum Storage, Curated by Ciara Ennis, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA (2001); Visible Entropy, Room 01, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY (2001); Wellcome Trust Commission, Euston Road Hoarding Project, Wellcome Trust, London, England (2001); 210 Gallery Installation, Wellcome Trust, London, England (2001); and California is Still Falling Into the Ocean, Room 02, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New (2001). Middlebrook has also participated in numerous group exhibitions including: The Rain, The Park and Other Things, Curated by Renee Ricardo, Nicole Fiacco Gallery, Hudson, NY (2008); Field Work, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2008); Something for Nothing, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA (2008); Into the Trees, Curated by Amy Lipton, Art OMI, Columbia County, NY (2008); Out of Shape: Stylistic Distortions of the Human Form in Art from the Logan Collection, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY (2008); Repositioning the Landscape, Curated by Jennifer McGregor, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT (2008); Collector's Choice III. Audacity in Art: Selected Works from Central Florida Collections, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL (2007); Sheldon Survey, An Invitational, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (2007); Material Pursuits, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT (2007); A Serious Paradise, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2007); What is your hobby? The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY (2007); Craft in Contemporary Art, Curated by Evelyn C. Hankins, Robert Hull Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont (2007); Petroliana (Oil Patriotism), Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia (2007); New York, Interrrupted, Curated by Dan Cameron, pkm gallery, Seoul, Korea (2006); Twice Drawn, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (2006); Prevailing Climate, Curated by Rachel Gugelberger and Jeffrey Walkowiak, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY (2006); Table Top, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY (2006); Manhattan Transfer, ZONE: Chelsea Center for the Arts, New York, NY (2006); Memory, Architecture and Place, Forest Hills Cemementary, Boston, MA (2006); Nature is Knocking, Jersey Art Center, Newark, NJ (2006); QED, Los Angeles, CA (2006); Inside/Outside: TreeLines, Curated by Amy Lipton, Abington Art Center Jenkintown, PA (2006); Three Projects, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA (2006); Among the Trees, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit NJ (2006); Welcome Home, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY (2006); and A Pictoral Point, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY (2006). Jason Middlebrook lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Artist bio compiled and written by Anna Mendoza, Curatorial Associate, Pitzer Art Galleries, Pitzer College