Exhibitions

   Texas Collects:Carter/Wynne Family Collection

Group Exhibition at Site 131

Sept 24 - Dec 10th 2022

    Crimson Tide

Group Exhibition at Soft Times gallery

Oct 6 - Nov. 19th 2022

Who I Was & Want To Be

Solo Exhibition at Somarts in San Francisco

Aug 4 - Sept 19 2022

Everything But the Kitchen Sink

GROUP EXHIBIT @ LA LUZ DE JESUS GALLERY IN LOS ANGELES

JULY 16 - AUG 28 2022

Paper Chase

Group Exhibition @ Old Jail Art Center

June 4 - Aug 20th 2022

Phantom Sightings: Art After The Chicano Movement

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Jason Villegas was a part of the traveling group exhibition Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement, curated by Rita Gonzales, Howard Fox, and Chen Noriega. Beginning at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in 2008, the exhibit toured for two years including renowned spaces such as, the Tamayo Museum in Mexico City, El Museo del Barrio in New York City, the Phoenix Art Museum (PAM) in Arizona, Museo de Arte de Zappopan in Guadalajara, and the Museo Alameda in San Antonio. His selected work "Celestial Situation" (2006) featured a wall mural of painting and drawing depicting planetary spheres of cosmic clutter involving a video projection of animated 2D artworks onto a drawing of compressed entertainment electronics and media. The animation reveals a consumption cosmology of anuses, amorphous beasts, and a rotund man watching television.

Solo Exhibitions

  • Don’t Stop Me Now, Front Gallery, Houston, TX (2023)

  • Who I Was & Want To Be, The Ramp Gallery @ SOMArts, San Francisco, CA (2022)

  • Hook-Ups, The Lonestar Saloon, San Francisco, CA (2022)

  • The Good The Bad The Ugly, Peveto Gallery, Houston, TX (2014)

  • Mineral Spirit, Art League Houston, TX (2014)

  • Old Jersey, Settlement Goods & Design, Houston, TX (2013)

  • Hungry Shrine, Closet Box, Houston, TX (2012)

  • Perspectives: 167, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (2009) *See virtual catalogue*

  • Botched Simulacrum, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX (2009)

  • Hunter Gatherer, Receiver Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2008)

  • Cosmic Slut, Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, IL (2008)

  • Impish Animal, Okay Mountain, Austin, TX (2008)

  • G*D, Project Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ (2007)

  • Forever Developing Shrine, Plush Gallery, Dallas, TX (2006)

  • Repressed Burial Fantasy, Okay Mountain Austin, TX (2006)

  • Ultrabastard: Marketing Seminar, Cactus Bra Space, San Antonio, TX (2005)

  • Absolute Destiny Apocalypse, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX (2005)

  • Growth Hormone Mutation Make-Over, Plush Gallery, Dallas, TX (2005)

  • Beast Taxidermy, CSAW, Houston, TX (2004)

  • Romantic Poverty & Hunger Pains, Montgomery College, Conroe, TX (2003)

Group Exhibitions

  • Paper Chase, Old Jail Art Center, Albany, TX (2022)

  • Everthing But The Kitchen Sink, La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2022)

  • Texas Collects: Carter/Wynne Family Collection, Site 131. Dallas, TX (2022)

  • Dissolution, Leslie Lohman Museum of Queer Art, NY, NY (2021)

  • Omniscient: Queer Documentation in an Image Culture, Leslie Lohman Museum of Queer Art, NY, NY (2021)

  • Flamecon, Sheraton Times Square, NY, NY (2019)

  • The Alchemical Trace, Sanitary Tortilla Factory, Albuquerque, NM (2017)

  • Gently Fried, “MACC” Mexican American Cultural Center, Austin, TX (2015)

  • Salon Style, Zoya Tommy Gallery, Houston, TX (2014)

  • Flatland, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, TX (2014)

  • Aqua Art Fair, Plush Gallery, Miami, Fl (2012)

  • Spring Auction, Art Bridge, NY, NY (2011)

  • Queer States, Visual Arts Center @ The University of Texas, Austin, TX (2011)

  • Art Market, Art Palace Gallery, Houston, TX (2011)

  • Region: Western Hemisphere, Tijuana Consulate, Permanent Exhibition, Mexico (2011)

  • Joni, Kathleen Cullen Gallery, NYC, NY (2010)

  • Emerging Artist Fellowship, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY (2010)

  • Head and Pole, Western Exhibitions Chicago, IL (2010)

  • Global National, Exit Art NYC, NY (2010)

  • Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement, El Museo del Barrio, NYC (2010)

  • Around The Way, El Museo Del Barrio @ Macy’s, NY, NY (2010)

  • Aparaciones Fantasmales, Museo de Arte de Zappopan, Guadalajara, MX (2009)

  • Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement, Phoenix Art Museum, AZ (2009)

  • Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement, Alameda Museum, San Antonio, TX (2009)

  • Aparaciones Fantasmales, Museo Ruffino Tamayo, Mexico City (2008)

  • Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA (2008)

  • Children in Heat, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX (2008)

  • Art Club, Gescheidle, Chicago, IL (2007)

  • The Paul Nudd Curatorial Experience, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL (2007)

  • Eyes Wide Open, El Museo Del Barrio @ The Armory, NY, NY (2007)

  • The Dams 2 / Las Represas, Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, Puerto Rico (2007)

  • Object, UT at Dallas, TX (2007)

  • Manic & Wasted, Swing Space, NY, NY (2006)

  • Debut, The Texas Firehouse, LIC, NY (2006)

  • Stop Trashing Houston, Versionfest, Chicago, IL (2006)

  • La Frontera, Gescheidle, Chicago, IL (2006)

  • Young Latino Artists #10, Mexic Arte Museum, Austin, TX (2005)

  • Artadia Houston, Diverseworks, Houston, TX (2005)

  • I-10 a Postmodern Route 66, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX (2005)

  • New Cartoon, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX (2005)

  • Woods, Negative Space, Houston, TX (2005)

  • Temporary Contemporary, The Orange Show, Houston, TX (2004)

  • Sloppy Slobbering Monster, The Bank, Kansas City, MO (2004)

  • In Situ, Allen's Landing, Houston, TX (2004)

  • Camp Lucky Summer of Carnage, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX (2004)

  • Brothers, Fresh up Club, Austin, TX (2004)

  • New American Talent 19, ArtHouse, Austin, TX (2004)

  • Brave New World, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX (2004)

  • New American Talent, The Nineteenth Exhibition, Arthouse, Exhibition Catalog (2004)

  • Animals, ArtCar Museum, Houston, TX (2003)

  • The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX (2003)

  • Dallas vs. Houston, Plush Gallery, Dallas, TX (2003)

  • Trailer Park, Deer Park, TX (2003)

  • The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX (2002)

  • Friendly Mart, Quick Stop, Houston, TX (2001)

Residencies

  • Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Workspace Studio (2010)

  • Socrates Sculpture Park, Emerging Artist Fellowship (2010)

  • Vermont Studio Center, Nadine Goldsmith Fellowship (2007)

  • Artadia Houston, Grant Finalist (2004)

Collections

  • El Museo Del Barrio Permanent Collection

  • Old Jail Art Center Permanent Collection

  • Columbus Art Museum Permanent Collection

  • Jean Pigozzi Collection

  • Carter/Wynne Family Collection

  • Chaney Family Collection