Jason Engelund is a San Francisco-based artist whose work in painting and photography explores the intersections of psychological and physical landscapes, creating what he terms meta-landscapes that investigate themes of perception, landscape and transformation.

Engelund’s photographic work focuses notably on the sun as a conceptual and metaphorical basis of source of light, while his paintings are inspired by his research in philosophy and explore the emotive power of color and symbol to visually narrate humane ideals in abstract compositions.

Jason Engelund’s artwork is held in the permanent collection of the Museum of Photographic Arts at the San Diego Museum of Art and his artworks have been represented by Kopeikin Gallery Los Angeles, Ideel Art Paris, London, Sobu Oakland and Themes and Projects San Francisco as well as art fairs and galleries in New York City, France, and India.

Engelund was awarded the Individual Artist grant by the Sustainable Arts Foundation. Following his residency south of Paris, Engelund recently exhibited works in France.

Engelund created and developed programming for the arts to address real world needs. As a founding member of the CCA Center for Art and Public Life he developed partnerships with community organizations to place artists, architects, writers and designers to work in collaborative projects towards issues of social justice, education and civic engagement. He created the center’s grant program facilitating arts and Social Justice Projects across the globe. Crayola awarded Engelund a grant to support arts education for his program "Contemporary Voices in Arts Education".

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