Born in 1982 in Mesa (AZ, USA), Jason Saager lives and works in Mesa (AZ, USA).
Following his graduation as a Bachelor of Fine Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2006, and his Master of Fine Art from Hunter College in New York in 2012, Jason Saager has developed a body of work based around landscape painting. The artist grew up in the midst of the vast natural spaces of the American West - which the artists of the 19th century Hudson River School endeavoured to capture in paint - and proposes a fresh and very personal vision of these territories that is also resolutely contemporary. Borrowing this classic theme of American painting, Jason Saager pursues this tradition whilst distinguishing himself from it with his singular approach and a broad variety of influences. Each work, which involves a combination of monotyping and painting, reveals a world where reality disintegrates to make way for fantasy. These new utopias seem to emerge as if to counterbalance the frightening prophecies of dystopian science fiction stories from the last century. His oeuvre is influenced by the early Italian Renaissance (Benozzo Gozzoli, Fra Angelico), ancient Asian art (Don Yuan, Ni Zan) and 20th century science fiction (Kafka, Lovecraft, Philip K. Dick) in a cohabitation that creates timeless and optimistic narratives, that carry the hope of a better future.
Jason Saager's work has been presented in solo exhibitions such as Intermediate Worlds at Galerie Nathalie Obadia (Paris, France, 2023), Sky Gardens at Rodolphe Janssen Gallery (Brussels, Belgium, 2022), Ecstatic Outdoors at Ross+Kramer Gallery (New York, USA, 2021), Scenes From the Time Collapse at St. Paul The Apostle Church (New York, USA, 2015) as well as in numerous group exhibitions such as SPRING+BREAK Art Show (New York, USA, 2021), My Sweet Doppelgänger at Richard Heller Gallery (Santa Monica, USA, 2021), Flowers and Beauty at Washington Project for the Art (Washington, USA, 2017-2016), Karmic at Life on Mars Gallery (New York, USA, 2015), Paul Klee at Underdonk Gallery (New York, USA, 2015).
He has had artist residencies at the Shape-Walentas Studio Program (New York, USA, 2019-2021) at the Pioneer Works in Brooklyn (New York, USA, 2014) and at the International School of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture in Montecastello (Montecastello di Vibio, Italy, 2006). He received the Richard Marnin Kaye Award while studying at Hunter College in New York in 2012.
Jason Saager is represented by Galerie Nathalie Obadia since 2024.