Jason Reblando
Assistant Professor of Photography
Wonsook Kim School of Art

Office
CVA Center For The Visual Arts 202b
Office Hours
Monday 12:00-1:00
Office Phone
Email
Website
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Research
Biography
Jason Reblando is a recipient of a U.S. Fulbright Fellowship and an Artist Fellowship Awards from the Illinois Arts Council. His photos are collected in the Library of Congress, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. His monograph New Deal Utopias was published in 2017.
Current Courses
ART 335.001 Advanced Photography
ART 176.001 Arts And Society: Visual Arts
ART 235.001 Black and White Darkroom Photography
ART 236.001 Digital Photography
ART 351.001 Special Projects: Photography
ART 333.001 Topics In Advanced Photography
Teaching Interests & Areas
Analog and digital photography
Historical photographic processes
Bookmaking
Lighting
Documentary practices
Research Interests & Areas
Portraiture
Landscape
Planned communities
Migration and diasporic communities
MFA Photography
Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
BA Sociology
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA
Faculty Development Grant
Wonsook Kim School of Art
2024
Creative Activity Initiative Award
University Research Council
2023
Creative Activity Initiative Award
Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts
2023
Hahnemuhle Award
The Print Center, Philadelphia
2023
Honorable Mention
SF Camerawork
2023
Director's Prize
Center for FIne Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado
2023
Faculty Development Grant
Wonsook Kim School of Art
2023
Critical Mass Top 50
Photolucida
2022
Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize Finalist
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
2020
Illinois Arts Council Agency Visual-Based Art Fellowship (Photography)
Illinois Arts Council Agency
2020
U.S. Fulbright Scholar Fellowship to the Philippines
U.S. Department of State
2015
Grants & Contracts
Faculty/Staff Research and Travel Funds. Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts. Illinois State University. (2026)
Deans Faculty Professional Development and Travel Award Program. Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts. Illinois State University. (2023)
Judy Sigunick Fellowship in Visual Arts. Ragdale Foundation. Private. (2023)
Pre-Tenure Faculty Research Grant. Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts. Illinois State University. (2023)
Scholarship. Review Santa Fe. Other. (2023)
Short Term Fellowship. Huntington Library. Private. (2023)
Faculty Development Support. Wonsook Kim School of Art. Illinois State University. (2022)
Gwen and Ted Crowley Endowment Fund. Wonsook Kim School of Art. Illinois State University. (2022)
Pre-Tenure Faculty Research Grant. Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts. Illinois State University. (2022)
Faculty Development Grant. Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts. Illinois State University. (2021)
Performances and Exhibits
Halo Halo Project: An Exhibition of Contemporary Filipino American Art and Culture
Jason Philip Reblando
Harold Washington Library Center. October 2 2025 - January 15 2026
Jason Philip Reblando
Harold Washington Library Center. October 2 2025 - January 15 2026
Home and Away
Jason Philip Reblando
Illinois State Museum. March 15 2025 - September 1 2025
Jason Philip Reblando
Illinois State Museum. March 15 2025 - September 1 2025
Society for Photographic Education Members Show
Jason Philip Reblando
Society for Photographic Education. March 6 2025 - March 28 2025
Jason Philip Reblando
Society for Photographic Education. March 6 2025 - March 28 2025
This Is Captured Paper
Jason Philip Reblando
Wichita State University. January 30 2025 - March 14 2025
Jason Philip Reblando
Wichita State University. January 30 2025 - March 14 2025
Archive Lives
Jason Philip Reblando
Ctrl+P Contemporary Art Bienniale (online). December 2024
Jason Philip Reblando
Ctrl+P Contemporary Art Bienniale (online). December 2024
Balikbayan | Homecoming, Filipino Perspectives on the Philippine Collections (online)
Jason Philip Reblando
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. May 2024
Jason Philip Reblando
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. May 2024
La Ruta: Walter Benjamin's Last Passage
Jason Philip Reblando, Joanne Diaz
Ball State University. February 2024 - February 2024
Jason Philip Reblando, Joanne Diaz
Ball State University. February 2024 - February 2024
Ragdale Foundation Fellowship Alumni Exhibition
Jason Philip Reblando
Ragdale Foundation. October 2024
Jason Philip Reblando
Ragdale Foundation. October 2024
The Curated Fridge, Autumn 2024 Show
Jason Philip Reblando
The Curated Fridge. August 2024 - December 2024
Jason Philip Reblando
The Curated Fridge. August 2024 - December 2024
Unbound13!
Jason Philip Reblando
Candela Books + Gallery. May 2024 - August 2024
Jason Philip Reblando
Candela Books + Gallery. May 2024 - August 2024
97th Annual International Competition (online)
Jason Philip Reblando
The Print Center. January 2023
Jason Philip Reblando
The Print Center. January 2023
Camera Obscura at ISU Horticulture Center
Jason Philip Reblando
ISU Horticulture Center. September 2023
Jason Philip Reblando
ISU Horticulture Center. September 2023
Field Notes
Jason Philip Reblando
Review Santa Fe. November 16 2023 - November 19 2023
Jason Philip Reblando
Review Santa Fe. November 16 2023 - November 19 2023
Field Notes
Jason Philip Reblando
Griffin Museum of Photography. April 2023 - June 2023
Jason Philip Reblando
Griffin Museum of Photography. April 2023 - June 2023
Forecast 2023 (online)
Jason Philip Reblando
SF Camerawork. April 2023
Jason Philip Reblando
SF Camerawork. April 2023
Images Do Not Represent Us, They Create Us: The Image and its Transforming Power (online)
Jason Philip Reblando
The Image Conference Pop-Up Exhibition at the Fourteenth International Conference on The Image. November 2023
Jason Philip Reblando
The Image Conference Pop-Up Exhibition at the Fourteenth International Conference on The Image. November 2023
Imminent Existence
Jason Philip Reblando
Photographic Center Northwest. March 2023 - June 2023
Jason Philip Reblando
Photographic Center Northwest. March 2023 - June 2023
More Than Lumpia
Jason Philip Reblando
Epiphany Center for the Arts. October 2023 - November 2023
Jason Philip Reblando
Epiphany Center for the Arts. October 2023 - November 2023
Traces
Jason Philip Reblando
University of Louisville. August 2023 - October 2023
Jason Philip Reblando
University of Louisville. August 2023 - October 2023
f22 Pop Up Exhibition
Jason Philip Reblando
f22 Fine Art Prints. April 2023 - April 2023
Jason Philip Reblando
f22 Fine Art Prints. April 2023 - April 2023
2022 Critical Mass Top 50
Jason Philip Reblando
Photolucida. 2022 - 2022
Jason Philip Reblando
Photolucida. 2022 - 2022
30th Annual Emerald Coast National
Jason Philip Reblando
Mattie Kelly Arts Center Galleries, Northwest Florida State College. 2022 - 2022
Jason Philip Reblando
Mattie Kelly Arts Center Galleries, Northwest Florida State College. 2022 - 2022
44th Annual National Art Exhibition, Small Works
Jason Philip Reblando
Harper College. 2022 - 2022
Jason Philip Reblando
Harper College. 2022 - 2022
97th Annual International Competition (online)
Jason Philip Reblando
The Print Center. 2022 - 2022
Jason Philip Reblando
The Print Center. 2022 - 2022
Canal by Canal
Jason Philip Reblando
Grand Valley State University. July 2022 - December 2022
Jason Philip Reblando
Grand Valley State University. July 2022 - December 2022
Magazine/Trade Publication
Reblando, J. Field Notes. Leo Hsu and Bree Lamb (EDs). Fraction Magazine (2022)
Other
Reblando, J., & Diaz, J. Cerbere. Indianapolis Review (2022)
Reblando, J., & Diaz, J. Contact Sheets. Cream City Review (2022)
Reblando, J., & Diaz, J. Jardin de Walter Benjamin. About Place Journal (2022)
Reblando, J., & Diaz, J. La Ruta Walter Benjamin. Allium (2022)
Reblando, J., & Diaz, J. Negative. Laurel Review (2022)
Reblando, J., & Diaz, J. The Origins of a Border. Tupelo Quarterly (2022)
Spring, E. EXPOSURE 2022!. What Will You Remember? (2022)
Sweeney, M. ‘Exposure 2022′ takes photography to unexpected places. The Boston Globe (2022)
Veal, A. FOCAL POINT Live: : Artists Xyza Cruz Bacani and Jason Reblando. Museum of Contemporary Photography / PHotoEspaña (2022)
Veal, A. FOCAL POINT podcast: Artists Xyza Cruz Bacani and Jason Reblando. Museum of Contemporary Photography / PHotoEspaña (2022)
Presentations
This Is Captured Paper. Connoisseur Series. Wichita State University. (2025)
Archival Research and Artistic Projects: Library and Creative Practitioners in Conversation. 64th Annual Conference Western History Association. Western History Association. (2024)
Field Notes. Barbara Bullitt Christian Memorial Lecture in Photography. University of Louisville. (2023)
Field Notes. Field Notes. Griffin Museum of Photography. (2023)
Field Notes. Altered Images. Center for Fine Art Photography. (2023)
Field Notes: Reframing Colonial Photography in the Philippines. Images Do Not Represent Us, They Create Us: The Image and its Transforming Power. International Conference On The Image. (2023)
Field Notes: Reframing Colonial Photography in the Philippines. Photography's Frameworks. Photography Network. (2023)
Fulbright and Field Notes. AsiaConnect. AsiaConnect. (2023)
Discussing Chasing Ice, documentary of environmental photography of James Balog. The Green Screen: A Climate Change Film Series. Illinois State University / Normal Theatre. (2022)
Engaging with Photographs in University Galleries Permanent Collection. Experiencing Images: How the Visual Shapes Our World. Illinois State University. (2022)
Field Notes. Critical Distance. 400 West Rich / Society for Photographic Education. (2022)
Field Notes. PRC Nights. Photographic Resource Center, Boston. (2022)
Art, Work, Grants. Filter Photo Festival. Filter Photo Festival. (2021)
Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Awarded Projects in Arts in Asia. College Art Association. (2020)
Home and Away. Thursday Night Photo Talks. Philadelphia Photo Arts Center. (2020)
La Ruta: Walter Benjamin's Last Passage. Artist Talk. Arts + Literature Laboratory. (2020)
New Deal Utopias. Christ College Symposium. Valparaiso University Honors College. (2020)