Jay Hall hails from the Great Lakes region of the Midwest. After a brief stint in New England following college, he headed west and settled in Phoenix, Arizona, where he has been involved in the art community for many years. He is currently focused on his own work at the Suncrest Building, a creative cooperative that is home to artists, tinkerers, and makers.
Jay has experimented with many media, including monoprinting, painting, photography, papermaking, serigraphy, ceramics, and digital art and printing. His influences are fluid and diverse, ranging from his mother to Robert Rauschenberg, John Chamberlain, Anselm Kiefer, Ruth Asawa, Richard Serra, Margaret Kilgallen, Frank Gehry, Wayne Coyne, Frank Stella, William Basinski, and Elvis (both of them).
Jay holds a B.S. in Geology with an emphasis in Art History from Beloit College in Wisconsin. He has participated in numerous exhibitions across the country.
"It's hard to put your finger on only a few people, events, or seemingly unimportant interactions that shape who you become. You get older, experience new things, forget others, and make discoveries that could not have happened without finding an earlier piece of the puzzle.
Creating art is very similar. You’re not chasing a ‘magnum opus' but, in fact, on a journey; individual works are stepping stones to the next with backslides and tangents mixed in. You can count on the creative path not being a straight line. The process, like wisdom, is a series of incomplete, interconnected exercises in which we often learn more from failure than from success."
EXHIBITIONS
Art@Suncrest - Group Show, 2010
Drawn To Modernism - Group Show, 2011
Detour The Detour - Group Show, 2012
Potluck | Random Art by 8 Dudes - Group Show, 2015
Tiny Works | Tiny Dances V @ {9} The Gallery - Group Show, 2019
Portland on the Park Collection Show - Group Show, 2019
Artlink's 20th Juried Exhibition - Group Show, 2020
Holiday Art Market Pop Up Gallery - Group Show, 2020
The Aesthetics of Mis(Use), Santa Fe, NM - Solo Show, 2021
Chaos Theory 21 - Group Show, 2021
Chaos Theory 24 - Group Show, 2024
Beaver Creek Art Show, Beaver Creek, CO - 2024
Cottonwood Art & Wine Fall, Cottonwood, AZ - 2024
Carefree Winter Art & Wine Festival, Carefree, AZ - 2025
Carefree Spring Art & Wine Festival, Carefree, AZ - 2025
MAIN ST. Art Festival, Ft. Worth, TX - 2025
Cottonwood Art & Wine Winter, Cottonwood, AZ - 2025
Golden ARTSWEEK 2025, Golden, CO - 2025 - Best 3D
Kimball Arts Festival, Park City, UT - 2025 - Best in Metalworking
Chaos Theory 25 - Group Show, 2025
La Quinta ENCORE 2025 - La Quinta, CA - 2025
Tempe Festival of the Arts Fall - Tempe, AZ - Honorable Mention
Carefree Winter Art & Wine Festival - Carefree, AZ - 2026
Scottsdale Waterfront - Scottsdale, AZ - 2026
Tubac Festival of the Arts - Tubac, AZ - 2026
Oro Valley Art & Wine - Oro Valley, AZ - 2026
Tempe Festival of the Arts Spring - Tempe, AZ - 2026
Carefree Spring Art & Wine Festival, Carefree, AZ - 2026
Laumeier Sculpture Park Art Fair, St Louis, MO - 2026
Art on the Square, Belleville, IL - 2026
Golden ARTSWEEK 2026, Golden, CO - 2026
Cherry Creek Arts Festival, Denver, CO - 2026
Art on the Rockies, Edwards, CO - 2026
GALLERIES
The Corazon Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
{9} The Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Untitled Fine Art, STL, MO
K Newby Gallery, Tubac, AZ