txt/call: 808.321.8643
jason@jasonmatias.com
Exhibitions
Art Basel, Miami 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023
Southampton Art Show, NY Fall 2020
Design Center of The Americas, FL 1/1/20-4/1/2020
Sotheby’s Art House, Hamptons, NY 9/6/19
Speaker: TEDx Tacoma “Beautiful Things That Are Gone”
Art Expo New York 2018, exhibiting the Aria Collection
Sotheby's Realogic "Park House Pop-up" February-March 2018
CAESAR’S PALACE, LAS VEGAS SUMMER 2016
Black Box Portrait Exhibit in Portland 2016
Edmonds Art Festival Juried Art Exhibit August 2015
RAW Rising Feb 2013
Honolulu Night Market Exhibition at CoXist Studio Jun 2013
Featured in Exposure 2013 exhibition in NY, NY by See.Me
Honolulu Photographer of the Year Exhibition December 2013
RAW Spectrum in NYC “Guest Exhibition” April 2014
AWARDS & PUBLICATIONS
Speaker: TEDx Tacoma “Beautiful Things That Are Gone”
2019 Best of Bellevue Award - Artist Category
Five Honorable Mentions in 2017 International Monochrome Awards in Landscape and Architecture.
One Gold and four Bronze awards in 2017 International Pano Awards.
Two Gold and one bronze awards in 2016 International Pano Awards.
Honorable Mention in 2016 International Monochrome Awards in Landscape.
Finalist in 2016 HIPA AE International Photography Competition in Black and White.
COMMISSIONED BY HAWAII PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION TO CREATE “HERO IMAGE” TO PRESENT TO PRESIDENT OBAMA. JANUARY 2014
“Lets Talk Landscape Photography” presentation at the University of Iowa March 2014
HONOLULU PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2013
Finalist for USA Photographer of the Year, November 2013
Everyday Hero of Humanity Award 2013.
Produced and Directed “eXposure: A Juried Photography Exhibit at Kakaako” at CoXist Studio with a national panel of jurors for 10 artists and 80 pieces of work. May 2013
Published in Print
NakedThoughts Self Published 2020
ART BUSINESS NEWS MAGAZINE TOP ARTISTS TO WATCH OUT FOR: SUMMER 2015
White Horses: Winterfel (Australia)
innov8 Magazine Mar/Apr2013. (Hawaii)
Halekulani Living V4 issue 1, Volume 4 Issue 2 (Hawaii)
Published in Online
ABC News: Author Feature 2020
Entrepreneur.com: Action and Ambition 2020
KOMO News: Artist of the Week 2020
Authority Magazine: 2020, 2021
Speaker: TEDx Tacoma “Beautiful Things That Are Gone” (see talk above) 2020
FStoppers: How to Make $60,000 in One Year Selling Fine Art Photographs January 18, 2018
Huffington Post March 24, 2016
SPACE.COM 101 BEST NIGHT SKY PHOTOS OF 2015 BY STARGAZERS (WILD HORSES)
THE WEATHER CHANNEL EDITORS’ CHOICE DECEMBER 2014, 2015
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EDITORS’ CHOICE TRAVELER PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST, JULY 2015
National Geographic “Islands” Assignment June 26, 2015
National Geographic “Cities in Black and White” May 2017
National Geographic Daily Dozen 10/02/2014, 06/10/2015, 05/2017
Outdoor Photographer Magazine Photo of the Day 01/15/2015
Veteran • Artist • Speaker • author
I’m Jason—ex-bomb builder (USAF) turned artist, author, and firm believer that your walls should make you feel something.
I’m originally from New York, but the military threw me into extremes I never knew existed—and after that, going back just didn’t feel right. Since then, I’ve called Hawaii, Alaska, Nevada, the Pacific Northwest, and soon, Arizona home.
These days, I build stillness. I wait for the light, the silence, the story in the scene. I believe in making art, not just taking photographs. Every piece holds more than just the light that entered the lens—there’s intention, creativity, patience, and presence poured into each frame.
My style? I call it comfortable isolation—a quiet moment suspended in time. I chase compositions that transport you. Somewhere quieter. Somewhere you can breathe.
Some collectors say my work feels like a portal. Others say it grounds them. I love hearing both—because that’s the point. Art should do something. It should shift your energy when you walk into the room. It should invite you to slow down, reflect, and feel a little more human.
You can explore available 1-of-1s and limited editions here on the site. And if you’re looking for something more personal, I curate custom collections based on your taste, space, and story.
Thanks for being here. I hope you find something that speaks to you.
Comfortable Isolation in photographs is a product of growing up as an outsider and growing into being a loner. But it is also a perception/representation of an important component of growth that society seemingly allows to slip away. Our character grows as the conversations we have with ourselves develops. The inner dialog where we battle our demons and mold our beliefs occurs in our moments of solitude. We have fewer and fewer moments of solitude as the outside world both crashes through the barriers of our attention and is invited into our minds as a deliberate distraction from our inner monolog. I’ve been creating these solitary places/spaces in my photographs to represent this dynamic. Pieces like Edge of Solace, Solitude (and the rest of the Lonely Boat Series), Adrift (below), and others.
Personification
Finding Nature in my photographs is largely due to luck combined with the opportunity to be out there and ready for it. I am looking for signs of life in my photographs. In Dance, the crowded trees curve in dance-like positions while also maintaining that clear pathway for your thoughts. Like a labyrinth, it’s a moving meditation at home in a live forest. It took me quite awhile to find a forest that was both moving and clear. There are also images like Guardian with its multitude of faces (15) and its story of protection on the North Shore of Hawaii. Her, (pictured below), with its woman beneath the red waves, as if they were bed sheets. Pacing the Sun, with its bird in the waves. Wild Horses, with the stallion before the stars.
Beyond...
As I mentioned in the introduction, this aesthetic is evolving into an entirely new image. Below is the image, The Mountain. She is the first of my Human Landscapes or Bodyscapes. Again, it is about finding nature personified but in a more deliberate way. I have plans to use both male and female models in more aesthetic, artistic, painterly, and visually pleasing ways than what I have seen in the past.
Aria Collection
The Aria Collection is body of work of fine art nudes. Only, they’re not really nude photography. Its a blend of contemporary and renisaince portraiture intended to tell a story about relationships, both internal and interpersonal. The abstractions in each represent the difference between perception and self-perception and each peice is named after a piece of music.
For a more personal statement on Why I Create Art, check out my blog post, Why I Create.
