Jay Hall hails from the Great Lakes region of the Midwest. After a brief stint in New England after college, he headed west and settled in Phoenix, AZ where he has been involved in the art community for many years. He is currently focusing on his own work out of The Suncrest Building, a creative cooperative home to other artists, tinkerers and makers of things. Jay has experimented with many mediums including monoprinting, painting, photography, paper making, serigraphy, ceramics and digital art/printing. His influences are numerous, diverse and fluid citing his mom, Robert Rauschenberg, John Chamberlain, Anselm Kiefer, Richard Serra, Stephen J. Gould, Camille Paglia, Frank Gehry, Wayne Coyne, Frank Stella, Thomas Sowell, Peter Greenaway, Abraham Lincoln and Elvis - both of them.
Jay has a BS in Geology with emphasis on Art History from Beloit College, WI. He has participated in numerous shows in Phoenix, AZ, Santa Fe, NM and STL, MO.
"It's hard to put your finger on only a few people, events and seemingly unimportant interactions. You get older, experience different things, forget stuff and make new discoveries all the time that couldn't have happened without an earlier piece of the puzzle. If someone asked me my 10 favorite songs now, the list would look a lot different than ten years ago. In art, I don't believe you’re 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 creation's path will not be a straight line. The process, like wisdom, is a series of incomplete, interconnected exercises; learning more by failure than by 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
GALLERIES
The Corazon Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
{9} The Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Untitled Fine Art, STL, MO
K Newby Gallery, Tubac, AZ