Jason Moran
Photo courtesy of the artist
Hear from Jason Moran, a jazz pianist, composer, and performance artist who is deeply invested in reassessing and complicating the relationship between music and language. His extensive efforts in composition, improvisation, and performance are all geared toward challenging the status quo while respecting the accomplishments of his predecessors. Moran’s partnerships and music making with venerated and iconic visual artists is extensive. He has performed and recorded with jazz masters, and his work with his trio, the Bandwagon, has resulted in a profound discography.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jason Moran (b.1975) earned his degree from the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with Jaki Byard. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2010 and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022. Moran is the artistic director for Jazz at the Kennedy Center and a curator at the Park Avenue Armory. He currently teaches at the New England Conservatory. Recent institutional solo exhibitions include Jason Moran: Black Stars: Writing in the Dark at Mass MoCA (2022–24); Bathing the Room with Blues at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (2021–22); and Jason Moran at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2018), and additional venues. Group exhibitions include the Whitney Biennial, the Venice Biennale, and Soft Power at the San Francisco Museum of Fine Art. In 2023, Moran curated the inaugural permanent exhibition, Here To Stay, at the Louis Armstrong Center in Queens, New York.
Sponsors
This program is presented by the Society for Contemporary Art and made possible with the support of Guy-Karim and María Christina Caland Puymartin.
