Obese Mickey, Digital Photograph, 2020

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)

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

  • Perspectives: 167, Contemporary Arts Museum of 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)

Group Exhibitions

  • Pet Portraits, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Cafe), CA (2023)

  • 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)

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

  • 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)

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

  • Poppers, The Texas Firehouse, LIC, NY (2011)

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

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

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

  • Emerging Artist Fellowship 10, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY (2010)

  • Head on Poles, 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)

  • 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)

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

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

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

  • New American Talent, #19, Arthouse, Austin, TX (2004)

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

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

Collections

  • El Museo Del Barrio, Permanent Collection

  • Tijuana American Embassy, Permanent Collection

  • Old Jail Art Center, Permanent Collection

  • Columbus Art Museum, Permanent Collection

  • Jean Pigozzi, Collection

  • Carter/Wynne Family, Collection

  • Chaney Family, Collection

Awards