Jason Isolini (b. 1986 in New York, USA; lives and works in New-York, USA)

Public Core (2023)
transparent chromogenic film. 17 1/4 x 360 in. Edition of 2 + 1 AP
Revival Cages (2023)
aluminum housing, transparent LCD screen, oxygen tank, taxidermy canary, single channel video.200 x 170 x 350 mm - 2 minutes looped

Jason Isolini is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist working across moving image, new media and sculpture. His practice investigates imaging technologies and the infrastructures that quietly shape how we see and navigate the world. Inspired by the idiom “the canary in the coal mine,” used to describe signs of invisible or forthcoming danger, Isolini’s Revival Cages (2023) mimic the air-tight aluminum encasements that would house canaries when they were brought down into underground mines in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In Isolini’s literal media idioms, physical taxidermied canaries pose in reflective mirror dioramas behind transparent LCD screens. Public Core (2023) is a chromogenic film strip over nine meters long that represents a full roll of film. The image was captured in the center of a highway in Wright, Wyoming bordering two of the largest surface coal mines in the world. Treating image making as a form of drawing and continuous movement, Isolini manipulates a panoramic camera to stretch and distort the image in service of a singular seamless moment.

Isolini was featured in 2024 V&A publication Digital Art: 1960s to Now. Performances and presentations include Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (2023); Vector Festival and the Ammerman Center for Art and Technology (both 2022). His work is held in private collections and by Flaxman Library at the Art Institute of Chicago and by the School of Visual Arts Library.

Picture Theory, founded in 2023 by Rebekah Kim, is a New York gallery dedicated to artistic practices that address the defining questions of our time, from shifting cultural narratives to the evolving role of technology and materiality in art. Advancing the careers of emerging artists while stewarding the legacies of historic works and estates, the gallery presents exhibitions and programs that serve as a platform for dialogue between new voices and overlooked histories.