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Jasper Lee is an artist from central Alabama who makes videos, installations, music & sound art.
Themes running through his work include media & alchemy, experimental ethnography and com-
munity building through collaboration. His work with the moving image has included composing
scores for feature films, directing music videos and making art films which have screened at festivals
internationally including Cosmic Rays Film Festival and Stockholm Experimental Film Festival. His
work with sound has included building instruments, performing in groups as a multi-instrumentalist,
creating radio art broadcasts, sound installations, foley sound effects, field recordings and studio
engineering for an array of projects. His work has been exhibited at art centers including The Mint
Museum, The Wiregrass Museum of Art, Vinegar Contemporary, The Ackland Museum, Nova Cinema
Brussels and the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts. He is a performer and organizer of experi-
mental music in Birmingham, where he leads the label Sweet Wreath.
jasperleestudio@gmail.com
instagram: @vernal.scuzz
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Two Centuries Later, Vulcan Materials Gallery, ASFA, Birmingham, AL (upcoming)
2021 Cobweb Codex, Coleman Center for the Arts, York, AL
2020 Cobweb Codex, Vinegar Contemporary, Birmingham, AL
2019 A Word from Water to You, Utilities Included, Chapel Hill, NC
2016 Déjà Vu Blues, SHIFT Birmingham Museum of Art Satellite Space, Birmingham, AL
Group + Collaborative Shows
2024 Sweet Wreath Speaks!, Radio Art Festival, Railroad Park, Birmingham, AL
2024 QiPO Fair, Temoskali, Mexico City, Mexico
2023 If The Creek Don’t Rise, The Bakery, Atlanta, GA
2023 EXM Now, Gallery 130, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
2022 Alabama Triennial, Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, Birmingham, AL
2022 Limestone Almanac, Basement, Chapel Hill, NC
2021 Spectral Acquaintances, Sweet Wreath, Irondale, AL
2021 Work from Home, (with Melissa Yes), UAB Solar House, Birmingham, AL
2020 Mingle Mangle, Stephen Smith Gallery, Fairfield, AL
2020 Space, Vinegar Contemporary, Online Exhibition, Birmingham, AL
2020 B20: Wiregrass Biennial, Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL
2019 Burned County Data, East Village Arts, Birmingham, AL
2019 Introducing, AIRBNB X Vinegar, Birmingham, AL
2019 Treeline, (with Vinegar), Moss Rock Festival, Birmingham, AL
2019 Coined in the South, The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
2019 On the Way to the Moon, True Turn Festival, Tulsa, OK
2019 Sacred Wasteland, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
2019 Under the Rug, The Fruit, Durham, NC
2018 Anti-Nostalgia, The Carrack, Durham, NC
2018 Visions Provisions, Alcott Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
2018 Of Diabase In Time, COOP Gallery, Nashville, TN
2017 Clocks For Seeing, John and June Alcott Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
2017 Louisiana Biennial, LA Tech University School of Design, Ruston, LA
2015 flusnoix :: flusdrawxing, The Grocery Gallery, Northport, AL
2014 The Wind in the Wood, (with Leah Hamby), Elsewhere Museum, Greensboro, NC
2012 Anomalous: A Look into Alternative Processes in Art, Art Folk Gallery, Birmingham, AL
2012 El Dia de los Muertos, Bare Hands Gallery, Birmingham, AL
2011 Haunted Heartland (w/Kathleen Hairston), University of Montevallo Gallery, Montevallo, AL
2011 Not About Beauty, Space One Eleven, Birmingham, AL
2009 Everything Must Go, Century Plaza, Birmingham, AL
Awards and Residencies
2024 Sweet Wreath Speaks! Vol. 2, Alabama Humanities Alliance Grant
2023 Verdant Fund Grant, Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile, AL
2023 Performance Grant, British Columbia Arts Council, Victoria, B.C., Canada
2021 Artist Residency, Coleman Center for the Arts, York, AL
2020 Alabama Prize, B20: Wiregrass Biennial, Awarded by curator Jackie Clay
2020 Artist Residency, Space, Vinegar Contemporary, Birmingham, AL
2019 Artist Residency, Utilities Included, Chapel Hill, NC
2017 Teaching Fellowship, UNC Chapel Hill, NC
2015 Artist Fellowship Grant, Alabama State Council on the Arts
2014 Artist Residency, Elsewhere Museum, Greensboro, NC
Selected Radio Art Broadcasts
2023 House of Goo, Substrate Radio, Psychic Tuesday Show, Birmingham, AL
2022 In the Form Of, WFMU 91.1 Jersey City, NJ
2018-19 Staff DJ at WXYC 89.3FM Chapel Hill, NC
2018 Mirror Water Mind, WCSB 89.3FM Cleveland, Ohio
2017 Seasonal Séance, Soundart Radio 102.5FM, Devon, UK
2014 Engineer at Birmingham Mountain Radio 107.3FM, Birmingham, AL
2012 WTCH, pirate radio broadcasts on 1000AM, Montevallo, AL
Screenings
2023 Music as Vision: An Exploration of Sound and Image, Nova Cinema, Brussels, Belgium
2023 Primeval Currents: Part 1, Sidewalk Film Festival, Birmingham, AL
2023 Primeval Currents: Part 1, Bloomsday Film Festival, Dublin, Ireland
2022 Pan Pan Medico and May Day, Hexennacht Festival, Victoria B.C., Canada
2020 Silver in the Churn, Open Spaces: Rudnik Festival of Innovative Cinema, Rudnik, Serbia
2020 Silver in the Churn, Sidewalk Film Festival, Birmingham, AL
2020 Silver in the Churn, Stockholm Animation and Experimental Film Festival, Stockholm, Sweden
2020 Silver in the Churn, Holywood Serbia International Film Festival, Mutanj, Serbia
2020 Silver in the Churn, Berlin Revolution Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
2019 Silver in the Churn, Portland Unknown Film Festival, Portland, OR
2019 Silver in the Churn, The Fruit, Durham, NC
2019 Land Rearranged, Cosmic Rays Film Festival, Chapel Hill, NC
2018 Birth Chart, Of Diabase In Time, COOP Gallery, Nashville, TN
2018 Birth Chart, Cosmic Rays Film Festival, Chapel Hill, NC
2017 Déjà Vu Deluge, Sidewalk Film Festival, Birmingham, AL
2017 Déjà Vu Deluge, Sound of Silent Film Festival, Chicago, IL
2017 Déjà Vu Deluge, Sound of Silent Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Performances
2024 Vernal Scuzz, WFMU Broadcast, Jersey City, NJ
2023 Silica Gel, Hexxenacht Festival, Victoria B.C., Canada
2022 Silica Gel, Icebox Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2021 Silica Gel, High Desert Soundings, Joshua Tree, CA
2017 Jasper Lee/Gilded Milk, Rhizome, Washington D.C.
2015 Gathering Among Stars, collaboration w/Ma Li, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
2013 McNeil Street Pumping Station New Music Festival, Shreveport, LA
2010 Improvisor Festival 30th Anniversary, Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA
2009 Improvisor Festival, Bare Hands Gallery, Birmingham, AL
Press
B20: Wiregrass Biennial
Impose Magazine
Tiny Mix Tapes
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