Curriculum Vitae

Jason Schwartz
(416) 871 – 6967
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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 “Holocaust Remembered” The Museum Kitchener, On., Canada, October 2015
Exhibits “The Human Cost Of Terror” Jacob’s Lounge, Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre, Toronto, Canada, 2006
Exhibits “The Human Cost of Terror” Holy Blossom Temple, Toronto, Canada, December 2006

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