Originally trained as a painter, Jakob Dwight was drawn to digital
software as an opportunity to explore the transformative impact of digital media on
painting and the painterly perspective. Inspired by the opiated, meditative quality
of the screen-based televisual space, the artist employs multiple media including
painting, drawing, digital photography, collage and smartphone apps to explore the
contemporary modes of image-making and viewing, and the televisual art experience
itself. Dwight’s work has been presented internationally, including in Amsterdam,
Los Angeles, Berlin, Atlanta, Vienna, and New York. He has exhibited in Kassel,
Germany as part of the Kreuzberg Pavillon at dOCUMENTA (13), 2012. In the same year,
he was awarded the Harvestworks New Works residency in New York. In 2010, Dwight was
invited to attend GlogauAIR artists’ residency in Germany, and in the following
year, 2011, he was awarded a United States artist’s residency. As part of the
Aesthetics & Therapeutics Lab, a collectively run platform developed to initiate
installations and experiments in immersive art and healing, Dwight has installed a
multi-sensory environment at Vortex Immersion Media Dome in LA in 2014. He was
commissioned by the Seattle Art Museum to create new work for the Disguise: Masks
and Global African Art exhibition at UCLA’s Fowler Museum, which traveled to the
Brooklyn Museum, New York in April 2016.
