Jason Rafferty

Jason Rafferty is a painter and draftsman based in Asheville, NC. A recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, he holds a BFA degree in painting from UNC Asheville and has pursued classical training in drawing and oil painting in the US and France since 2010. He has studied at Studio Escalier in Paris and Argenton-les-Vallées, France, the Fine Arts League of the Carolinas, and apprenticed with the landscape painter John Mac Kah. His artwork has appeared on the Travel Channel and can be found in private collections across the US and internationally.

Jason has exhibited regularly in group and solo exhibitions in the Southeast US since 2012. In 2016 he was commissioned to create artwork for the Oscar-winning film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, directed by Martin Mcdonagh. His work was selected as an alternate for the XL Catlin Art Prize exhibit in 2018, a highly competitive US survey of the best student figurative artwork with jurors from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the MoMA, the Whitney, and Gagosian Gallery. He was selected to be a featured emerging artist at Four Bridges Art Festival in Chattanooga, TN in 2017, and in 2016 was invited to the Winter Show at Greenhill Art Center, a annual survey of t...

2019: BFA, University of North Carolina at Asheville, Painting. 2009-2011, 2016-2019.

Ongoing: Association / Apprenticeship with professional landscape painter John Mac Kah, Riverview Station, 191 Lyman St., Asheville, NC. 2012-present.

Copying and intensive study at numerous museums in US & Europe after various masters. 2008-present

2012 - 2015: Study of figure drawing and painting at Studio Escalier. Winter at the Louvre 2012, Paris, Fr. (8 weeks), Summer Intensive 2013, Argenton-les-Vallées, Fr. (12 weeks), Summer Intensive 2014, Argenton-les-Vallées, Fr. (12 weeks), Spring in Paris 2 Figure Drawing 2015, Paris, Fr. (4 weeks).

2012 Workshop studies with professional artists Nicholas Raynolds, Rebecca King and Ben Long IV in Asheville, NC.

2009 - 2012: Fine Arts League of the Carolinas, classical approaches to drawing.

Solo:

2019: "Mythic Images", Asheville NC, April 19-30, 2019. Highsmith Gallery, UNC Asheville.

2014: "Art of Jason Rafferty: Second Solo Exhibition", Metro Wines, Asheville, NC. November 1, 2014 - January 2, 2015.

2012: “Art of Jason Rafferty: Two Dispositions”, Izzy’s Coffee Den, Asheville, NC. July 2012.

Group (recent):

2019: "Rites of Passage", Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH.

2019: 52nd Annual UNC Asheville Juried Student Art Exhibition. RAMP gallery, Asheville NC. March 1-16, 2019. (Third place award, Juror: Hayden Wilson)

2019: BUMP: A Color-Focused Popup Exhibition, The Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design, Asheville, NC. (Juror: Mary Lube)

2018: 16th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Grace Centre Gallery, Mills River, NC, Nov. 3, 2018 - January 8th, 2019. (Best in Show award, Juror: Virginia Derryberry)

2018: New Forms: Juried Student Exhibition, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Oct. 27 - Dec. 8. (Juror: Beth Cavener)

2018: Of Valley and Ridge, Invitational Exhibition benefitting the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation. Zealandia Castle, Asheville, NC, Oct. 26 - 28, 2018.

2018: Horizon Art Productions Inaugural Exhibit, Invitational Exhibition, Rosewood Cultural Center, Rosewood, NC. Augu...