Jeffrey Mason
Born 1961, New Brunswick, NJ
Living in Cranford, NJ

Education
1988          MFA, Painting, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 
1984          BS, Art Education, Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina

Awards and Honors
2011         Individual Artist Fellowship, New Jersey State Council on the Arts
1998        Geraldine R. Dodge Fellowship, Artist/Educator Grant
1997        Teacher of the Year Award, ESC of Morris County NJ
1991        Governor’s Teacher Recognition Award, ESC of Morris County NJ
                 Honorable Mention, New Jersey Educators as Artists,
                 Glassboro State College, NJ
1990        Purchase Award, Kansas 15th Annual Small Painting Drawing, and Print
                 Competition, Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS
                 Purchase Award, 22nd Washington and Jefferson National Painting Show
                 Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, NJ
                 Honorable Mention, First Annual New Jersey Small Works Show, Demarest, NJ   
                 Purchase Award, Kansas 13th National Small Painting, Drawing, and Print
                 Exhibition, Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS

Selected Exhibitions
2007       New Jersey Arts Annual, The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
                 Lateral Attitudes, with Tom McGlynn, Ruth Root, James Sienna, Merrill Wagner, 
                 and Stephen Westfall, Raritan Valley Community College, North Branch, NJ
2006        Solo Exhibition, Ben Shahn Gallery, William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ
1999        Aljira National Five, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
                 Making and Teaching Art About Ideas, The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
                 Natural Expressions, Jeffrey Mason and Sally Swenson, Rabbet Gallery, New
                 Brunswick, NJ 
                 Emerging Artists ’95, The Painting Center, New York , NY  
                 Solo Exhibition, Raritan Valley Community College, North Branch, NJ
1993        Small Drawings, B. Beamesderfer Gallery, Highland Park, NJ
1992        5 Painters, Serena Bocchino, Christopher Koep, Jeffrey Mason, Carrie Nixon- 
                  Wood,and Kathy Schulz, Raritan Valley Community College, North Branch, NJ
1991        Ellarslie Open, Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ
                 New Jersey Art Educators as Artists, Glassboro State College, NJ
                 Solo Exhibition, Intermission Gallery, John Harms Art Center, Englewood, NJ
                 Solo Exhibition, Vincent Visceglia Gallery, Caldwell College, Caldwell, NJ
1990        New Jersey Painting Today, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ
                 The Halpert Biennial, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
                 Solo Exhibition, Members Gallery, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
1989        12th Annual Tri-State Juried Exhibition, Middlesex County Museum  
                  Piscataway, NJ
1988        3rd Annual Exhibition of Miniature Art, Del Bello Gallery, Toronto Canada
                  Red Clay Survey, A Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Southern Art,  
                 
Huntsville Museum of Art, AL
                  Dimension ’88, National Sculpture Competition, Lenexa, KS
                  Galex 22, National Juried Art Exhibition, Galesburg, IL
1987         National Graduate Drawing Competition, Oshkosh, WI
                   24th Annual National Painting Drawing, and Print Exhibition,
                  
Winston-Salem, NC

 Teaching Experience
1989-18     Art Teacher, Park Lake School, Rockaway, NJ
1990-          Adjunct Professor, Raritan Valley Community College, North Branch NJ