Curriculum Vitae
Jason Schwartz
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Education
B.F.A., York University Toronto, Canada 1992
Maine Photographers Workshop, Camden, Maine; One week course with Mary Ellen Mark, Summer 1996
SOLO SHOWS
Exhibits “The Human Cost of Terror”, Old City Hall, The Hague, Netherlands, February, 2004
Exhibits “The Human Cost of Terror”, Toronto Centre for the Performing Arts, November, 2003
Exhibits “Travels” at Pikto, The Distillery, July 2003
Exhibits “Fragments- Portraits of Survivors” at the Florida Holocaust Museum, September 2001
Exhibits “The Ghosts That Haunt Us- Portraits of Holocaust Survivors” at the Florida Holocaust Museum, St.
Petersburg . Florida January through April, 1999
Exhibits “The Ghosts That Haunt Us- Portraits of Holocaust Survivors” at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery
-Hart House, Toronto, 1997
Exhibits “The Ghosts That Haunt Us- Portraits of Holocaust Survivors” at the Loggia Gallery- Koffler
Centre for the Arts , Toronto, 1996
Exhibits “Written On Our Faces” at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem Fall 1995 through May
1996
GROUP SHOWS
MEMBERS’ SHOW
The Tampa Gallery of Photographic Arts, Tampa, Florida, September, 2001
TWELVE HEADS FOR KATU
the Blue Monkey Cafe Restaurant, Toronto, March, 1996
TRAVELS
the North York Public Library in Toronto, June,1995
TRAVELS
The Bald Photographer Gallery in Toronto, February,1995
GROUP SHOW
Morrow Gallery, Toronto, May, 1992
GROUP SHOW
with Kathleen Finlay and Marla Young at York University Faculty Lounge, April,
1992
York University’s IDA Gallery, 1992
GRANTS
CANADA COUNCIL GRANT:
The Israelis – a photo-documentary on Israeli society, 1999
ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL EXHIBITION GRANT:
The Ghosts That Haunt Us – Portraits of Holocaust Survivors, 1997
ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL GRANT:
The Ghosts That Haunt Us- Portraits of Holocaust Survivors, 1994
COMMISSIONS
commissioned by the Florida Holocaust Museum, the third largest Holocaust museum in North America, to photograph
115 Holocaust survivors in Southwest Florida and document their stories, resulting in the exhibition of Fragments,
Portraits Of Survivors. September 2001
COLLECTIONS
Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, St. Petersburg Florida
OneFamily Fund, Toronto, Canada
The Tampa Gallery of Photographic Arts, Tampa, Florida
PUBLICATIONS
Publishes “The Ghosts That Haunt Us- Portraits of Holocaust Survivors” (Seven Oaks Press Inc.) in 1997 featuring an introduction by
renowned American Photographer Arnold Newman
The Human cost of Terror, The Federation for the Defence of Democracies, Februrary 2004
Camera Canada entitled “The Essentials” (Autumn issue 1991)
Awards
The Florida Holocaust Museum’s (The FHM’s) highest honour, The Loebenberg Humanitarian Award during the Museum’s virtual To Life event, February 2022
Stephen Cooper Award, November, 1996
Kodak Award of Excellence, December 199