Jason Reed


Jason Reed is a Texas-based artist and educator. With a background in geography, his work deals with the confluence of land, politics, and visual histories. He is a Professor of Photography and the Jones Professor of Southwestern Studies at Texas State University and holds a BA in Geography from the University of Texas and an MFA in Photography from Illinois State University.

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. The first publication is a multi-volume examination of the visual culture of the U.S. Border Patrol called, The Place Where Flags Wave.

Reed has created gallery and public space exhibitions at venues such as Artpace in San Antonio, Krannert Museum at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, storefront windows in Miles, Texas, Galerie Reinthaler in Vienna, Austria, Dallas Contemporary, La Asamblea Legislativa in Mexico City, and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.


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Jason Reed


Jason Reed is Texas-based artist and educator. With a background in geography, his work deals with the confluence of land, politics, and visual histories. He is a Professor of Photography and the Jones Professor of Southwestern Studies at Texas State University and holds a BA in Geography from the University of Texas and an MFA in Photography from Illinois State University.

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. The first publication is a multi-volume examination of the visual culture of the U.S. Border Patrol called, The Place Where Flags Wave.

Reed has created gallery and public space exhibitions at venues such as Artpace in San Antonio, Krannert Museum at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, storefront windows in Miles, Texas, Galerie Reinthaler in Vienna, Austria, Dallas Contemporary, La Asamblea Legislativa in Mexico City, and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.


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Ongoing project exploring how oil and gas extraction has shaped the lands of Texas


Broken Pipe and Depleted Land, Texon, Texas


Gas Flare, Texon, Texas


Gusher Fire, Ector County, Texas, Photo by Jack Nolan, 1930 (Sourced for research from the Petroleum Museum)


Sky Blue Tanks, Texon, Texas


Highlights from the book Oil 101


Roadside Detritus, Texon, Texas


Man Camp, Big Lake, Texas


Fragments of Broken Pipe, Collected in Texon, Texas


New Development, Midland, Texas


Newspaper Clipping, San Angelo Standard Times


Oil Derrick Headstone, Sheffield, Texas