Jason Wright is an arts educator and artist based in Vancouver, Canada.

Jason has taught with the University of Regina, Arts Umbrella, and the Vancouver School Board and has been a Kwantlen Polytechnic University faculty member since 2017. He has participated in numerous art education initiatives including the Vancouver Biennale/Liceo Boston Open Borders project in Bogota, Columbia, Vancouver’s Big Draw Festival, Art in the Park (through the Arts Council of New Westminster), KPU’s Paris Field School, and Arts Umbrella’s Summer Teen Intensive (with the CAG and SFU).  Jason has presented his art education research with the National Art Education Association, the International Society for Education through Art World Congress, (most recently in Canakkale, Turkey in 2023), and the College Art Association (most recently in Chicago in 2026). His research and writing have appeared in Art Education, The International Journal of Art Education, Geist, and the anthology publication, Canadian Culinary Imaginations.

 Jason received a BFA in Visual Arts from Simon Fraser University, a BEd in Art Education from UBC, and an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Regina. Jason’s research interests include repetition and ritual in contemporary drawing, the pedagogical turn in contemporary art practice, amateurism and skill, food culture, and the comic voice. Jason has participated in numerous artist residencies including The Arteles Center (Finland), the Ottawa School of Art, Heima Artist Residency (Iceland), and Greywood Arts (Ireland), and has received multiple BC Arts Council and Canada Council grants to support his art practice.

Jason has come to Caetani to begin work on a new drawing/writing project and is excited to be here!