Jason Hanasik
Jason Hanasik is an American artist, filmmaker, curator, and essayist. His investigations focus primarily on trauma, reintegration, addiction, the military experience, and human rights.
His work has appeared at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, in The Los Angeles Times, Routledge’s academic journal Critical Military Studies,and screened at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, IDFA, DOC NYC, the Camden International Film Festival, and on Gap’s screens worldwide.
Hanasik’s thesis film, “How to Make a Pearl” was a finalist for the 2017 Student Academy Award, nominated for the IDA’s David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award, and acquired by The Guardian’s Documentaries Division for online distribution in 2018.
Hanasik has served as an advisor to students in the graduate program in Fine Arts at California College of the Arts, taught photography classes at the ASUC Art Studio at UC Berkeley, and was the first Global Storyteller for Gap. In 2016, Hanasik served as the first intern in 360 video at The Los Angeles Times.
As a lecturer, Hanasik has delivered talks on his work and other artist’s artistic practice at SFMoMA and various colleges and universities nationwide. Hanasik’s first photography monograph, “I slowly watched him disappear” debuted at Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair in 2015 and is in the collection of Stanford University and the Rhode Island School of Design.
Hanasik has a Master of Journalism from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, a Master of Fine Arts from California College of the Arts, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts Summa Cum Laude from the State University of New York at Purchase.
EDUCATION
MJ-UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
MFA-California College of the Arts
BFA Summa Cum Laude- State University at Purchase
REPORTING INTERESTS
Arts, Gender/Sexuality, Health, ScienceMEDIA PLATFORMS
Audio Journalism, Documentary, Multimedia, Photojournalism