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Jason Reblando

Assistant Professor of Photography
Office
CVA Center For The Visual Arts 202b
Office Hours
Monday 12:00-1:00
  • About
  • Education
  • Awards & Honors
  • Selected Research

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

ART 335.001 Advanced Photography

ART 176.001 Arts And Society: Visual Arts

ART 235.001 Black and White Darkroom Photography

ART 236.001 Digital Photography

ART 351.001 Special Projects: Photography

ART 333.001 Topics 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

Faculty Development Grant

Wonsook Kim School of Art
2024

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

Grants and Contracts

Faculty/Staff Research and Travel Funds
Jason Philip Reblando.
Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts. March 19 2026 - March 21 2026
Deans Faculty Professional Development and Travel Award Program
Jason Philip Reblando.
Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts. November 16 2023 - November 19 2023
Judy Sigunick Fellowship in Visual Arts
Jason Philip Reblando.
Ragdale Foundation. July 2023 - August 2023
Pre-Tenure Faculty Research Grant
Jason Philip Reblando.
Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts. July 2023 - June 2024
Scholarship
Jason Philip Reblando.
Review Santa Fe. November 2023 - November 2023
Short Term Fellowship
Jason Philip Reblando.
Huntington Library. December 1 2023 - December 31 2023
Faculty Development Support
Jason Philip Reblando.
Wonsook Kim School of Art. March 2022 - March 2022
Gwen and Ted Crowley Endowment Fund
Jason Philip Reblando.
Wonsook Kim School of Art. 2022 - 2023
Pre-Tenure Faculty Research Grant
Jason Philip Reblando.
Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts. July 2022 - June 2023
Faculty Development Grant
Jason Philip Reblando.
Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts. July 2021 - June 2022

Performances and Exhibits

Halo Halo Project: An Exhibition of Contemporary Filipino American Art and Culture
Jason Philip Reblando.
Harold Washington Library Center. October 2 2025 - January 15 2026
Home and Away
Jason Philip Reblando.
Illinois State Museum. March 15 2025 - September 1 2025
Society for Photographic Education Members Show
Jason Philip Reblando.
Society for Photographic Education. March 6 2025 - March 28 2025
This Is Captured Paper
Jason Philip Reblando.
Wichita State University. January 30 2025 - March 14 2025
Archive Lives
Jason Philip Reblando.
Ctrl+P Contemporary Art Bienniale (online). December 2024
Balikbayan | Homecoming, Filipino Perspectives on the Philippine Collections (online)
Jason Philip Reblando.
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. May 2024
La Ruta: Walter Benjamin's Last Passage
Jason Philip Reblando, Joanne Diaz.
Ball State University. February 2024 - February 2024
Ragdale Foundation Fellowship Alumni Exhibition
Jason Philip Reblando.
Ragdale Foundation. October 2024
The Curated Fridge, Autumn 2024 Show
Jason Philip Reblando.
The Curated Fridge. August 2024 - December 2024
Unbound13!
Jason Philip Reblando.
Candela Books + Gallery. May 2024 - August 2024
97th Annual International Competition (online)
Jason Philip Reblando.
The Print Center. January 2023
Camera Obscura at ISU Horticulture Center
Jason Philip Reblando.
ISU Horticulture Center. September 2023
Field Notes
Jason Philip Reblando.
Review Santa Fe. November 16 2023 - November 19 2023
Field Notes
Jason Philip Reblando.
Griffin Museum of Photography. April 2023 - June 2023
Forecast 2023 (online)
Jason Philip Reblando.
SF Camerawork. April 2023
Images Do Not Represent Us, They Create Us: The Image and its Transforming Power (online)
Jason Philip Reblando.
The Image Conference Pop-Up Exhibition at the Fourteenth International Conference on The Image. November 2023
Imminent Existence
Jason Philip Reblando.
Photographic Center Northwest. March 2023 - June 2023
More Than Lumpia
Jason Philip Reblando.
Epiphany Center for the Arts. October 2023 - November 2023
Traces
Jason Philip Reblando.
University of Louisville. August 2023 - October 2023
f22 Pop Up Exhibition
Jason Philip Reblando.
f22 Fine Art Prints. April 2023 - April 2023
2022 Critical Mass Top 50
Jason Philip Reblando.
Photolucida. 2022 - 2022
30th Annual Emerald Coast National
Jason Philip Reblando.
Mattie Kelly Arts Center Galleries, Northwest Florida State College. 2022 - 2022
44th Annual National Art Exhibition, Small Works
Jason Philip Reblando.
Harper College. 2022 - 2022
97th Annual International Competition (online)
Jason Philip Reblando.
The Print Center. 2022 - 2022
Canal by Canal
Jason Philip Reblando.
Grand Valley State University. July 2022 - December 2022

Magazine/Trade Publication

Field Notes
Jason Philip Reblando.
Fraction Magazine, (161), (2022)

Other

Cerbere
Jason Philip Reblando, Joanne Diaz.
Indianapolis Review, (2022)
Contact Sheets
Jason Philip Reblando, Joanne Diaz.
Cream City Review, (2022)
EXPOSURE 2022!
Elin Spring.
What Will You Remember?, (2022)
‘Exposure 2022′ takes photography to unexpected places
Mark Sweeney.
The Boston Globe, (2022)
FOCAL POINT Live: : Artists Xyza Cruz Bacani and Jason Reblando
Asha Iman Veal.
Museum of Contemporary Photography / PHotoEspaña, (2022)
FOCAL POINT podcast: Artists Xyza Cruz Bacani and Jason Reblando
Asha Iman Veal.
Museum of Contemporary Photography / PHotoEspaña, (2022)
Jardin de Walter Benjamin
Jason Philip Reblando, Joanne Diaz.
About Place Journal, (2022)
La Ruta Walter Benjamin
Jason Philip Reblando, Joanne Diaz.
Allium, (2022)
Negative
Jason Philip Reblando, Joanne Diaz.
Laurel Review, (2022)
The Origins of a Border
Jason Philip Reblando, Joanne Diaz.
Tupelo Quarterly, (2022)

Presentations

This Is Captured Paper
Jason Philip Reblando.
Connoisseur Series, Wichita, KS, January 30, 2025
Archival Research and Artistic Projects: Library and Creative Practitioners in Conversation
Jason Philip Reblando, Deirdre de la Cruz, Yumi Janairo Roth, Emmanuel David, Josh Garrett-Davis, Francis Estrada, Liza Posas.
64th Annual Conference Western History Association, Kansas City, MO, October 25, 2024
Field Notes: Reframing Colonial Photography in the Philippines
Jason Philip Reblando.
Images Do Not Represent Us, They Create Us: The Image and its Transforming Power, Online, November, 2023
Field Notes
Jason Philip Reblando.
Barbara Bullitt Christian Memorial Lecture in Photography, Louisville, KY, October, 2023
Field Notes: Reframing Colonial Photography in the Philippines
Jason Philip Reblando.
Photography's Frameworks, Online, October, 2023
Fulbright and Field Notes
Jason Philip Reblando.
AsiaConnect, Normal, IL, September, 2023
Field Notes
Jason Philip Reblando.
Field Notes, Online, May, 2023
Field Notes
Jason Philip Reblando.
Altered Images, Online, April, 2023
Field Notes
Jason Philip Reblando.
Critical Distance, Online, October, 2022
Field Notes
Jason Philip Reblando.
PRC Nights, Online, September, 2022
Engaging with Photographs in University Galleries Permanent Collection
Jason Philip Reblando.
Experiencing Images: How the Visual Shapes Our World, Normal, IL, March, 2022
Discussing Chasing Ice, documentary of environmental photography of James Balog
Jason Philip Reblando.
The Green Screen: A Climate Change Film Series, Normal, IL, March, 2022
Art, Work, Grants
Jason Philip Reblando, Melissa Pinney, Aimee Beaubien.
Filter Photo Festival, Chicago, IL, September, 2021
La Ruta: Walter Benjamin's Last Passage
Jason Philip Reblando.
Artist Talk, Online, December 4, 2020
Home and Away
Jason Philip Reblando.
Thursday Night Photo Talks, Online, October 15, 2020
Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Awarded Projects in Arts in Asia
Jason Philip Reblando.
College Art Association, Chicago, IL, February, 2020
New Deal Utopias
Jason Philip Reblando.
Christ College Symposium, Valparaiso, IN, February 6, 2020