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Jason Reblando

Assistant Professor of Photography
Wonsook Kim School of Art
Office
CVA Center For The Visual Arts 202b
Office Hours
Monday 12:00-1:00
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Biography

Jason Reblando is a recipient of a U.S. Fulbright Fellowship and an Artist Fellowship Awards from the Illinois Arts Council. His photos are collected in the Library of Congress, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. His monograph New Deal Utopias was published in 2017.

Current Courses

335.001Advanced Photography

435.001Advanced Photography

236.001Digital Photography

236.002Digital Photography

236.001Digital Photography

236.002Digital Photography

444.002Studio Work: Photography

333.001Topics In Advanced Photography

419.001Topics in Advanced Photography

Teaching Interests & Areas

Analog and digital photography
Historical photographic processes
Bookmaking
Lighting
Documentary practices

Research Interests & Areas

Portraiture
Landscape
Planned communities
Migration and diasporic communities

MFA Photography

Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

BA Sociology

Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA

Creative Activity Initiative Award

University Research Council
2023

Creative Activity Initiative Award

Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts
2023

Hahnemuhle Award

The Print Center, Philadelphia
2023

Honorable Mention

SF Camerawork
2023

Director's Prize

Center for FIne Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado
2023

Faculty Development Grant

Wonsook Kim School of Art
2023

Critical Mass Top 50

Photolucida
2022

Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize Finalist

Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
2020

Illinois Arts Council Agency Visual-Based Art Fellowship (Photography)

Illinois Arts Council Agency
2020

U.S. Fulbright Scholar Fellowship to the Philippines

U.S. Department of State
2015

Magazine/Trade Publication

Reblando, J. Field Notes. Leo Hsu and Bree Lamb (EDs). Fraction Magazine (2022)

Presentations

Field Notes. Barbara Bullitt Christian Memorial Lecture in Photography. University of Louisville. (2023)
Field Notes. Field Notes. Griffin Museum of Photography. (2023)
Field Notes. Altered Images. Center for Fine Art Photography. (2023)
Field Notes: Reframing Colonial Photography in the Philippines. Images Do Not Represent Us, They Create Us: The Image and its Transforming Power. International Conference On The Image. (2023)
Field Notes: Reframing Colonial Photography in the Philippines. Photography's Frameworks. Photography Network. (2023)
Fulbright and Field Notes. AsiaConnect. AsiaConnect. (2023)
Discussing Chasing Ice, documentary of environmental photography of James Balog. The Green Screen: A Climate Change Film Series. Illinois State University / Normal Theatre. (2022)
Engaging with Photographs in University Galleries Permanent Collection. Experiencing Images: How the Visual Shapes Our World. Illinois State University. (2022)
Field Notes. Critical Distance. 400 West Rich / Society for Photographic Education. (2022)
Field Notes. PRC Nights. Photographic Resource Center, Boston. (2022)

Grants & Contracts

Judy Sigunick Fellowship in Visual Arts. Ragdale Foundation. Private. (2023)
Pre-Tenure Faculty Research Grant. Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts. Illinois State University. (2023)
Scholarship. Review Santa Fe. Other. (2023)
Short Term Fellowship. Huntington Library. Private. (2023)
Faculty Development Support. Wonsook Kim School of Art. Illinois State University. (2022)