Jason Dodge

Jason Dodge was born in Newton, PA in 1969. He lives and works in Mon, Denmark. With a simplicity that belies their conceptual nature, Jason Dodge’s installations communicate powerful narratives propelled by exhibition titles such as, “I woke up. There was a note in my pocket that explained what had happened” (2009). That exhibition featured unexpected combinations of familiar objects—satellite dishes, light bulbs, bells, and baskets—taken out of context. Colorful blankets, for instance, commissioned from hand-weavers around the world, were placed in the gallery in juxtaposition with organ pipes; it was left to viewers to derive meaning from the work based on their own subjective associations to the objects. “Generally, it is the people, the subjects that are lacking in what I do,” Dodge explains. “I’m talking to you about them, but they’re not there. It’s as if I were using the feeling of loss as material.” Recently he has had solo shows at the Lentos Museum, in Linz Austria, the Albrecht Dürer Gesselshaft/ Kunstverein Nürnberg, CAC Vilnius, Lithuania, the Hannover Kunstverein and the American Academy, Rome, Italy. He has participated in La triennale, at the Palais de Tokyo, curated by Okwui Enwezor, The 2013 Bienal do Mercosul, in Porto Allegre Brazil, the 2013 Biennale de Lyon, and the 2013 Venice Biennale curated by Massimiliano Gioni. In the United States he has had a solo exhibition at the Orange County Museum in 2004 and has been part of group exhibitions at the Walker Art Center, the MCA Chicago, MOCAD, Detroit, and Western Bridge in Seattle.