Jaret Vadera

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Jaret Vadera
Born1976 (age 46–47)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Education Ontario College of Art and Design
Cooper Union
Yale School of Art
Website http://jaretvadera.com

Jaret Vadera (born 1976) is a Canadian artist working between New York, Toronto, and India. [1] Vadera works across media, primarily in the spaces where painting, photography, video installation, and new media intersect. [2]

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Early life and education

Vadera was born in Toronto in 1976. [3] His mother and father both immigrated to Canada in the 1960s and 1970s as part of a large wave of immigration. Vadera's father was born in India and his mother in the Philippines. Vadera is of Indian, Filipino and Spanish descent. His parents were working-class immigrants who practiced different religions, and spoke different languages. Vadera describes how growing up in his family, in Toronto, at that particular time, "set the stage for his ongoing explorations into the ways that beliefs, codes, and processes of translation shape and control how we see." [4] [5]

In 1999, Vadera graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design, and participated in the Mobility Program in Fine Arts at the Cooper Union School of Art (New York, NY) the same year. He received his Master in Fine Arts in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art (New Haven, CT) in 2009. [4] [6] [7]

Career

Vadera works across media, primarily in the spaces where painting, photography, video installation, and new media intersect. [8] Through his work, Vadera explores how different social, technological, biological, and cognitive processes shape and control the ways that we see the world around and within us. [9] He often takes "things" apart, and puts them back together in new ways. Rorschach tests, algorithms, maps, infographics, and logic paradoxes are often redeployed to locate ambivalent in-between spaces, to reveal malignant meanings, and to explore the poetics of representation. [9] Mixing metaphors, shifting historical and cultural references, and code switching are some of his key strategies. [4]

In parallel to his career as an exhibiting artist, Vadera has also been active as an organizer, programmer, curator, researcher, writer, editor, educator, and designer on projects that focus on using art as a catalyst for social change / justice. [10]

Selected exhibitions

Vaderas paintings, prints, photographs, videos, and installations have been exhibited and screened internationally at:

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  2. ↑ Diaspora Art, Sharmistha Ray, MW Magazine India, August 2009
  3. ↑ "JARET VADERA". Filipino American Museum.
  4. 1 2 3 4 DOUBLEBIND, Catalog, Kristen Evangelista, William Paterson University, University Galleries, 2014
  5. ↑ New Poetics of Translation: An Interview with Jaret Vadera, Carla K. Stewart, Breach Magazine – Issue 1: Decolonial Aesthetics, June 2015
  6. ↑ Younger Than Jesus / Artist Directory, The New Museum, NY. Phaidon Press, 2009
  7. ↑ "Jaret Vadera | P.S.1 Studio Visit". momaps1.org. Archived from the original on 2012-11-23.
  8. ↑ Diaspora Art, Sharmistha Ray, MW Magazine India, August 2009
  9. 1 2 3 "Home". jaretvadera.com.
  10. ↑ "DakshinaChitra Artist Research Fellowship". dakshinachitra.net. Archived from the original on 2014-12-27.
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