Jason Middlebrook lives and works in Hudson, NY. Born in Jackson, Michigan in 1966, Middlebrook acquired a BFA from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1990 and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in California in 1994. Middlebrook participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York from 1994 to 1995. His work has been exhibited in public institutions including the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Arthouse, Austin, TX; Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO; Museo de Arte de El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL; Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX; New Museum, New York, NY; Palazzo Delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Sienna, Italy; Santa Monica Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, CA; Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC; Wellcome Trust, London, United Kingdom; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Middlebrook received The Joan Mitchell Foundation 2010 Grant, and is currently working on public commissions including the MTA Art for Transit Commission NY. Middlebrook's work is in the public collections of the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Microsoft Corporate Art Collection, Redmond, WA; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; New Museum, New York, NY; Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield, OH; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.