ABOUT ME
I began in film photography with a cheap, plastic toy Diana camera purchased for me by my grandmother
at the Ben Franklin for $2.98 when I was about 6 years old. I used it until I broke it and moved up to my
parent's Argus 75. I can mark each period of my life by what camera I was using and what I found visually fascinating.
I have been exhibited nationally and internationally with work in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art
in Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. My work has been published in prominent art magazines and books.One thing has not changed throughout my artistic life is that I believe that it is the duty of the artist to find beauty and meaning where most don't look for it. This has carried through my work and is how I define artists to my students as well.
I am a retired art educator with a Masters degree in Art Education from Lindenwood University. I have taught a range of students in my career, from kindergarten up to the university level. No matter where I have settled, my classroom always has had a darkroom somewhere. Currently, I am the artist in residence at the Jacoby Arts Center in Alton, Illinois, teaching experimental photography and darkrooms skills.
I am currently living in St. Louis Missouri along with 60 cameras, a wife, two dogs and a growing backlog of film that I keep telling myself that I have to develop.
Jeffrey A. Sass
Curriculum Vitae
sassjeffrey@yahoo.com
Education
Masters in Art Education Lindenwood University 2000 plus 30
BS Broadcasting and Film Production Boston University 1985
Current Employment
Jacoby Arts Center, Alton Illinois
Artist in Residence, Experimental Film Photography Instructor
Collections
Experimental Aircraft Association Museum
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago USA (Fluxus archive)
MOMA, New York (Fluxus archive)
Selected Shows and Exhibits
2024 Jacoby Arts Center, solo show Internal Views
Featured artist New Visionary Magazine issue 10
2023 Elipsis Gallery First anniversary Group Show
Praxis Gallery Constructed Image
Accepted Agad Art Hotel 9th Biannuelle
The Hand Magazine Issue 42 Featured artist
Jacoby Arts Center Prints of Darkness, group show
2022 Decode Gallery, Analogue Photography Show,
Image Flow Gallery, Annual Alternative Processes Show,
Fenix Arts Center New Photography Show, The Hand Magazine published in Issue 38
2020 Analogue Forever Magazine, online exhibit, Hybrid
The Hand Magazine, featured artist August Issue 29 and October issue 30
Good Weather Gallery solo show "Photo Katastrophe" February
Trenton Artworks group show Quarantine Art in Isolation May
2017 SOHA Art Gallety solo Show "Death and Astronauts"
2016-17 SOHA Art Gallery, St. Louis
2015 Third Degree Glass solo show “Beloved Objects” August
2015 Raw Artists Showcase Group Show May
2015 Concrete Ocean Five Year Group Show
2014 Exibited at Grand Rapids Art Prize, DeVos Center September of 2014
2014 Hidden Truths, The Mind Unraveled, Dax Gallery in Costa Mesa, California (group show) October 2014
2014 Sheldon Art Gallery St. Louis at 250 Prize winning entry, exhibited and published in the show book.
2014 Fluxbox, group show Joan Flasch Library Art Institute of Chicago
2013 Broadway Art Project, solo show “In my Eye’s Mind”
2012 Lithuanian Biennale Vilnius, Lithuania group show
2012 Documenta, Berlin Participated in installation, “Instant People, Polaroid Self Portraits”
2012 Write On! Group show at the Chicago Cultural Center
2011-2013 Fluxfest, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cultural Center, Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois
2011 Mad Art Gallery Past Passed (with Keith Buchholz) mixed media
2010 Concrete Ocean Gallery (with Colin M Shaw) mixed media
2007 Atomic Cowboy
2005 Suite 100 at the Pageant Theatre solo show, mixed media
2004 Subterranean Books, My Robot’s Vacation solo show mixed media
2001 Communications Arts Magazine group show. Artist’s Response to Tragedy, Exhibited in New York City and San Francisco
1997 Apropos Gallery, St. Louis MO solo show metals
Awards and Recognitions
2014 Photography, 3rd place St. Louis at 250, Sheldon Art Gallery
2011 Best Wall Art, Taste of St. Louis
2004 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Fellowship