Discipline Category: Visual Arts and Photography

Through the lens of his Métis heritage and a deep-rooted connection to the land, Jason Lee explores the intersection of adventure and visual art. Based in Manitoba, his work is a record of a journey—one that involves trekking to hidden waterfalls, navigating backcountry rivers by canoe, and traversing frozen northern lakes by snowmobile. Jason’s photography serves as an invitation to witness the extraordinary scale and raw majesty of the Manitoba landscape in its most authentic, enduring form.

Taanshi! Bre dishinikashoon.

I am an emerging interdisciplinary artist currently based in Manitoba, Canada. I am a proud two-spirit, Red River Michif being with an overactive imagination, a wild sense of humour, and a taste for chaos that leads my work in any direction it pleases. That’s what keeps it fun!

I seek out rich colour and texture in the mediums I work with. These are featured alongside naturally-sourced materials (such as raw and live-edged wood) and found objects. Often, my choice of materials holds subconscious intention for the project to come.

I love to work intuitively with a focus on experience in the immediate present. This particular approach allows me to be more viscerally in-touch with the ideas that arise while I’m in the act of physically creating. In this way, I consider art-making a deeply personal ritual, where I’m deliberately engaging in conversation with my spirit, surroundings, experiences, and roots. I am always finding profound connections through my artworks.

My broader goals involve exploring the crossroads of paint, design, and conceptual art through experimentation. I am actively seeking new ways to harmonize my eccentric fields of interest in order to reach for more ambitious -- and powerful -- projects.