Jason Coughlin

I hope that by posting my art on this site art lovers find renewed interest in my work and times. It is difficult but rewarding to catalog years of art made prior to the digital age and remain thoughtful without becoming nostalgic.

Born Bayshore, Long Island NY 1967. BA Architecture NYIT. I became a US Peace Corps volunteer in Tchad Africa after attempting to break into Hollywood set design and construction. Young and idealistic, making the world a better place became my artistic life goal.
Upon my return from Africa, I moved to the nascent art community of Williamsburg Brooklyn in 1997. I sublet in a commercial building on Broadway and Bedford next to the Williamsburg bridge. My studio was also a gallery where I hosted numerous group and solo exhibits. I was part of the vanguard of pioneering DIY artists seeking affordable spaces to live and work in NYC. The only other galleries at the time in the rough and tumble neighborhood were Pierogi (with it’s file drawers)and the Williamsburg Art and Historical Society (WAH) diagonal across the intersection from me. Local bands like Soul Coughing & Simon and the Bar Sinisters were building followings. Rancid were laying down tracks at Coyote studios.
In the pre-intern...

self taught artist. BA Architecture NYIT.

**Incomplete and non chronological. Exhibitions of special note-Drawings in the Williamsburg Art and Historical Society; Paintings exhibited in the Hecksher Museum of Art group shows.

Daffodil Hill Art Fair, Caumsett State Park

“Clotheslines” J. Coughlin Fine Art, Huntington

Open Gallery, group show Northport

Artrium, group show Melville

Kevin Corcoran Gallery, Huntington

Flower Hill Art Fair, Huntington

Open Gallery, group show Northport

Artrium, group show Melville

The Cup, Wantagh

About Glamour, group show Williamsburg

Cool Beanz, St. James

Artists Space, group show SOHO

Organization of Independent Artists, group show New York, NY

Make a Wish Foundation Silent Auction,
Roslyn
Open Gallery, group show

Northport
Organization of Independent Artists,

group show New York, NY
Artists Space,

group show SOHO


Cool Beanz, St. James


About Glamour, group show Williamsburg


The Cup, Wantagh


Open Gallery, group show Northport


“Clotheslines” J. Coughlin Fine Art, Huntington

Open Gallery, group show
Northport
Artrium,
group show
Melville
Kevin Corcoran Gallery,
Huntington
Atrium, Mellville

Hecksher Museum of Art,
Juried Show

W.A.H. Auction , Williamsburgh

Infusion 3 , Levittown

W.A.H. Salon , Williamsburg...