Jason Mitcham

Jason Mitcham creates stop motion animations from paintings and drawings.  With a background in land surveying, central themes within his work include mapping, land use and planning, cycles of growth and decay, layering of history, and the complex web of social, political and environmental forces embedded in the landscape. His work asks us to consider not only how our behavior as humans affects the earth, but how our treatment of the earth affects people’s lives in return. He has held solo museum exhibitions at the North Carolina Museum of Art and the Flint Institute of Arts. His work is included in numerous private collections, and in the public collections of the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Mint Museum, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, and the University of Florida School of Forest Resources and Conservation. He has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, a Snyderman Fund Art-Supporting-Art Grant, was a finalist for the 1858 Prize at the Gibbs Museum, and has been a resident at Yaddo. Jason teaches in NYC and Westchester, NY, and lives and works in upstate NY.  He received a BFA from East Carolina University and an MFA from the University of Florida.