"Pride" (Vices and Vitures series)
2006
Collage and gold leaf
edition 1 0f 5
14"H x 11"W
Courtesy of Curator's Office Gallery, Washington DC
Artwork is framed with archival museum board and uvglass; hangs on 2 D-rings.

Jason Hughes Biography
Jason Hughes is an artist and independent curator who was born in Jacksonville, Florida in 1978. Shortly after graduating high school from Douglas Anderson School for the Arts in Jacksonville in 1996, Hughes moved to Baltimore, Maryland with a group of other recent graduates into a 10,000 sq ft warehouse loft located in downtown Baltimore. Over the next three years Hughes and the other artists renovated their warehouse into artists' live and work studios as well as a 4,500 sq ft exhibition space known as Gallery Four, with their inaugural exhibition opening in the spring of 2000. In 2002, the Baltimore City Paper recognized Gallery Four as "The Best Proof of Contemporary Art Life in Baltimore" as well as other awards and honors from Baltimore Magazine and the Washington Post. In 2001, Hughes received several merit-based educational scholarships that allowed him to attend school at the Maryland Institute College of Art as well as a semester at the prestigious New York Studio Program through Parsons School of Art and Design in 2003. Hughes received his BFA in sculpture, cum laude, from the Maryland Institute in December 2004 where he was also 1 of 10 finalists for the Gelman Grant, a $25,000 travel award. Immediately after graduating, Hughes has exhibited his work at the Museum for Contemporary Art in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico; Vox Populi in Philadelphia, PA; Curator's Office in Washington, DC; Maryland Art Place in Baltimore, MD; the Scope Art Fair in Miami Beach, FL and New York, NY; as well as Omni Art III in conjunction with Art Basel Miami Beach in Miami, FL. In 2006, Hughes was honored as1 of 8 finalists for the inaugural Sondheim Prize, a $25,000 award to a single artist in the mid-Atlantic, as well as a solo exhibition at Curator's Office in Washington, DC and a fellowship to attend an artist residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst, VA. Hughes currently lives and works in downtown Baltimore.