Jason Reed is a Texas-based artist and educator. With a background in geography, his work centers on the intersecting histories, ecologies, ideals, and dilemmas as they play out on the southern end of the Great Plains, where the desert meets the prairie.
In addition to his individual practice, much of his work involves collaboration through the art and education project Borderland Collective, which Reed co-founded in 2007 with high school history teacher Ryan Sprott. Most recently he started a printed matter project that examines histories and dilemmas of the American West called the Victory in the Wilderness Museum.
In 2023 he was co-editor of Otherwise, It Would Be Just Another River with Molly Sherman (Spector Books) and in 2022 published Field Work (Victory in the Wilderness Museum). His books have been collected by such libraries as NYU, Princeton, Yale Rare Books Library, the Hirsch Library at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Royal Danish Library, and Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt.
He has created gallery and public space exhibitions at venues such as Artpace in San Antonio, Krannert Museum at the University of Illinois, storefront windows in Miles, Texas, the Blackwell School in Marfa, Texas, Galerie Reinthaler in Vienna, Austria, The Washington State History Museum, La Asamblea Legislativa in Mexico City, and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
Reed is a Professor of Photography at Texas State University and holds a BA in Geography from the University of Texas and an MFA in Photography from Illinois State University.
︎︎︎ Email (jreedphoto@gmail.com)
︎︎︎ Instagram
︎︎︎ CV
In addition to his individual practice, much of his work involves collaboration through the art and education project Borderland Collective, which Reed co-founded in 2007 with high school history teacher Ryan Sprott. Most recently he started a printed matter project that examines histories and dilemmas of the American West called the Victory in the Wilderness Museum.
In 2023 he was co-editor of Otherwise, It Would Be Just Another River with Molly Sherman (Spector Books) and in 2022 published Field Work (Victory in the Wilderness Museum). His books have been collected by such libraries as NYU, Princeton, Yale Rare Books Library, the Hirsch Library at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Royal Danish Library, and Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt.
He has created gallery and public space exhibitions at venues such as Artpace in San Antonio, Krannert Museum at the University of Illinois, storefront windows in Miles, Texas, the Blackwell School in Marfa, Texas, Galerie Reinthaler in Vienna, Austria, The Washington State History Museum, La Asamblea Legislativa in Mexico City, and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
Reed is a Professor of Photography at Texas State University and holds a BA in Geography from the University of Texas and an MFA in Photography from Illinois State University.
︎︎︎ Email (jreedphoto@gmail.com)
︎︎︎ Instagram
︎︎︎ CV