Jason Waskey

Contemporary figurative artIst Jason Waskey is  a Seattle based artist who paints and sketches the world around him, and especially the people in it.

Waskey was born in Washington D.C. in 1970, raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and trained as an artist first at Parsons School of Design in New York City, and then received his B.F.A. from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

He has filled a variety of jobs in the arts field including art director for both a newspaper and a comic book company, and an instructor for the Art Institute of Seattle.

Jason's paintings have been exhibited nationally and internationally in both group and solo gallery exhibitions. His art has been seen in numerous publications, including a graphic novel that he co-authored.