Vadera’s prints, collages, sculptures, videos, and installations have been exhibited and screened internationally at venues such as: Queens Museum, MoMA, the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, Asia Society, Aga Khan Museum, Bhau Daji Lad Museum, and the Maraya Art Centre.

In parallel, Vadera has worked as a curator, programmer, and writer on projects that focus on art as a catalyst for cultural change.

Vadera completed his undergraduate education at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto and the Cooper Union School of Art in New York. He received his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University. He has lectured at: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Yale University; Cornell University; Pratt Institute; Indian Institute of Technology; Tufts University; Brooklyn College; and Montclair State University. Vadera is currently the Assistant Professor in Intersectional, Feminist and Decolonial 2D and 4D Image-Making Practices at Concordia University in Montreal.

Jaret Vadera currently lives and works between Montreal and New York.

EDUCATION

MFA, Yale University School of Art, Painting and Printmaking, 2009, New Haven, CT, US

Cooper Union School of Art, Fine Art Mobility Program, 1999, New York, NY, US

Ontario College of Art and Design University, AOCAD in Fine Art, 1999, Toronto, ON, CA

EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS

2023
Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia, US
Proposals for a Memorial to Partition
Curator: Murtaza Vali

2022
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna, AT
Hungry for Time: An Invitation to Epistemic Disobedience
(Curators: RAQS Media Collective)

apexart, New York, NY, US
Kafala: Migrant Labor in the Arabian Peninsula
(Curator: Clark Clark)

2021
Essex Flowers Gallery, New York, NY, US
Eyeshadow
(Curator: Karen Azoulay

Lakereen, Mumbai, MH, IN
THE DAWN OF AQUARIUS: The New Beginning [online]
(Curator: Arshiya Lokhandwala)

South Asia Institute, Chicago, IL, US
Diasporic Rhizome [online]
(Curators: Faisal Anwar, Ambika Trasi, and Brendan Fernandes)

Royal Society of Canada, Ottawa, ON, CA
Engaging Creativities [online]
(Curators: Tamara Harkness, Sarah Piché, and Alice Ming Wai Jim)

UNTITLED Miami, FL, US
The Ties that Bind
(Curator: Alaina Simone)

2020
Mui Ho Fine Arts Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, US
Ascent

Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts, Montreal, QC, CA
(pre)existing conditions [online]
(Curators: Tamara Harkness, Sarah Piché, and Alice Ming Wai Jim)

Ethnocultural Art Histories Research,
Concordia University, QC, CA
HEAR US NOW! [online]
(Curator: Alice Ming Wai Jim) 

Mui Ho Fine Arts Library, Cornell University
Ascent

2019
Queens Museum, New York, US
Queens International: Volumes
(Curators: Sophia Marisa Lucas and Baseera Khan)

VIDEODROME PARIS at TICK TACK, Antwerpen, BE
The Charon Cycle
(Curator: Prisca Meslier)

Herbert Johnson Museum, Ithaca NY, US
CAF 2019

2018
Columbia University, New York, US
Unleashing
(Curators: Livia Alexander and Isin Ono)

Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, IN
Beyond Transnationalism: The Legacy of Post Independent Art from South Asia
(Curator: Arshiya Lokhandwala)

Solo Exhibition
Project for Empty Space, Newark, US
where the ocean meets the sky
(Curators: Jasmine Wahi and Rebecca Jampol)

Solo Exhibition
Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, US
aliens, dead zones, and beyonders
(Curator: Scott Andresen)

AIFACS Gallery / Raza Foundation, New Delhi, IN
Beyond Transnationalism: The Legacy of Post Independent Art from South Asia
(Curator: Arshiya Lokhandwala)

2017
Asia Society Museum, New York, US
Lucid Dreams, Distant Visions
Curators: Boon Hui Tan, Lawrence-Minh Bui Davis, and Jaishri Abichandani

Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, CA
Here: Locating Canadian Contemporary Artists
Curator: Swapnaa Tamhane

Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, Asheville, US
Crafted Strangers
Curators: Quizayra Gonzalez and Cass Gardiner

Solo Exhibition
12G, Philadelphia, US
the closer i get, the further i find
Curators: Aisha Z.Khan and Atif F. Sheikh

2016
CTRL+ALT: Imagined Futures
Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, New York, US
Curators: Adriel Luis, Lawrence Bui-Davis and Kālewa Correa

Filipino American Museum, New York, US
Dystansia
Curator: Edwin Ramoran

FILE: Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo, BR
FILE Video Art 2016
Curator: Fernanda Albuquerque de Almeida

A Space Gallery, Toronto, CA
Bayan
Curator: Vicky Moufawad-Paul

5 Andersen / Residency Unlimited, New Rochelle, US
Beneath Our Feet on and the Surface of Things
Curator: Livia Alexander

2015
Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, AE
Accented
Curator: Murtaza Vali

August Fröhls, Mönchengladbach, DE
Object Manipulating Economy / Economy Manipulating Object
Curators: Aman Sandhu & Swapnaa Tamhane

False Alternatives
Gallery Veda / Hyatt, Chennai, IN
Curator: Meenakshi Thirukode

Drexel University, Philadelphia, US
12Gates Video Art Fest
Curators: Ayza Akhtar, Sonali Gulati,
Bakirathi Mani, Sa'dia Rehman, and Atif F. Sheikh

2014
Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Reading List: Artists’ Selections from the MoMA Library Collection
Curators: Lori Salmon and Rachael Morrison

Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, IN
Video Art Series
Curator: Gayatri Sinha / Critical Collective

William Patterson University Gallery, Wayne, US
Doublebind
Curator: Kristen Evangelista

Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, US
Know Who You Are At Every Age
Curators: Q_RAIDER and BDGRMMR

Sunaparanta Goa Center for Arts, Panjim, IN
Translucent Video Art Festival
Curator: Kanchi Mehta

2013
Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Abstract Currents: An Interactive Video Event
Organizers: PopRally

FD ZONE | Films Division of India, Mumbai, IN
100 Years of Experimentation: A Retrospective of Indian Cinema and Video
Curators: Ashish Avikunthak & Mortimer Chatterjee

WAA, Mumbai, IN
Translucent Video Art Festival
Curator: Kanchi Mehta

The Gateway II, Newark, US
Etiquette For Lucid Dreaming
Curators: Meenakshi Thirukode, Jasmine Wahi, and Rebecca Jampol  

2012
Solo Exhibition
Bose Pacia Gallery, New York, US
Transparent Studio - Artist-In-Residence

Local Project, New York, US
DysTorpia
Curators: Gabriel Roldós & Arlan Londoño

Outpost, New York, US
DysTorpia
Curators: Gabriel Roldós & Arlan Londoño

2011
EFA Project Space, New York, US
Prolonged Engagements
Curator: Erin Sickler

First Canadian Place Gallery, Toronto, CA
50 Years of Art: Looking Back at the Future
Curator: Jennifer Rudder

2010
Project 88, Mumbai, IN
Form and Phenomenon
Curator: Heidi Fichtner

Tilton Gallery, New York, US
Else
Curators: Derrick Adams and Jack Tilton

Aicon Gallery, New York, US
Malleable Memory
Curator: Nitin Mukul

Religare Arts, New Delhi, IN
Ballard Estate
Curator: Gitanjali Dang

2009
Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, US
Back, Forth and Round About
Curator: Thomas Erben

P.P.O.W Gallery, New York, US
Young Curators, New Ideas II
Curator: Megha Ralapati

Triple Candie, New York, US
Eye World
Curators: Emily Cheng and Michelle Loh

Thomas Erben / Seven Art / Travancore Palace, New Delhi, IN
Moment as Monument
Curators: Thomas Erben and Aparajita Jain

2008
Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, US
Exploding the Lotus
Curators: Jaishri Abichandani and Jane Hart

2007
Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, US
Emerge 8
Curator: Rocio Aranda-Alvarado

New York Arab and South Asian Film Festival, New York, US
Transfixed: Experimental Video Program
Curator: Yamini Nayar

2006
Queens Museum of Art, New York, US
Everything All at Once - Queens International
Curators: Jaishri Abichandani and Herb Tam

2005
Solo Exhibition
Paved Art + New Media, Saskatoon, CA
It’s not an easy thing to meet the maker…
Curator: Timothy Dallett

Solo Exhibition
Department of Canadian Heritage, Toronto, CA
Archive
Curator: Jennifer Rudder

White Box, New York, US
Night Shift

Queens Museum of Art, New York, US
Fatal Love - South Asian American Art Now
Curators: Jaishri Abichandani and Prerana Reddy

2004
South Asian Visual Arts Centre / Gallery 401 / CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto, CA
Interscapes
Curators: Farheen HaQ and Cyrus Irani

PH Gallery, New York, US
Re:Construct
Curator: Tomoko Ashikawa

chezTGN, New York, US
Miraculous: Contemporary Exvotos Paintings
Curator: Trong G. Nguyen

2003
Centre de Diffusion en Art Subversif, Montreal, CA
Archive

A.W.O.L. Gallery, Toronto, CA
Whole

Yeditepe University, Istanbul, TR
International Symposium of Interactive Media Design

2002
Solo Exhibition
Cultural Foundation of Corsica, Ajaccio, FR
Erosion
Curator: Hervé Lalli

Two-Person Show
Kabat Wrobel Gallery, Toronto, CA
Light

SOF Art House, Toronto, CA
Stir

2001
Solo Exhibition
A.W.O.L. Gallery, Toronto, CA
Standard

BOOKS AND CATALOGS

where the ocean meets the sky
Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ, 2018

Beyond Transnationalism:
The Legacy of Post Independent Art from South Asia, AIFACS Gallery / Raza Foundation, New Delhi, IN, 2018

the closer i get the further i find, Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia, 2017

Lucid Dreams, Distant Visions, Asia Society Museum, New York, 2017

HERE: Locating Contemporary Canadian Artists, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, 2017

Crafted Strangers, The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design, Asheville, 2017

Dictionary of the Possible, Shifter, New York, 2016

FILE: Video Art, FILE SÃO PAULO, Brazil, 2016

ACCENTED, Maraya Art Centre, 2015

The Gulf – HIGH CULTURE / HARD LABOR, edited by ANDREW ROSS, Or Books, 2015

Doublebind: Art of the South Asian Diaspora, William Patterson University Gallery, 2014

Younger Than Jesus / Artist Directory: The Essential Handbook to a New Generation of Artists, The New Museum, NY. Phaidon Press, 2009, 494.

Eye World, Triple Candie, NY, 2009, 65.

Emerge 8, Aljira, Center for Contemporary Art, NJ, 2007, 62, 83, 90.

Queens International 2006: Everything All at Once, Queens Biennial Vol. 3, Queens Museum of Art, 2006: 79

Fatal Love – South Asian American Art Now, Queens Museum of Art, 2006: 15, 59.

ARTICLES, REVIEWS, AND INTERVIEWS

Proposals for a Memorial to Partition, Aruna D’Souza, 4Columns, 09.29.23

“Raqs Media Collective’s recent exhibition in Vienna speaks against hunger for time,” Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi, Stir World, December 5, 2021

“On Multivalent Imagemaking,” Interview with Samia Henni
Journal of Architecture 12, Cornell Press, 2021

“The art of satire,” Ayesha Majeed, Art & Culture, The International News, April 18, 2021

“COVID-19 and Equity: Rethinking Cities, Pedagogy, and Race,” AAP News, Patti Witten, June 13, 2020

Q&A WITH ARTIST & EDUCATOR JARET VADERA,
Diana McClure, Duggal Art Scene, 20 July 2020

Emergency Mode: Artist Jaret Vadera on Crises and Adaptable Art Practice, AAP News, By Patti Witten, June 13, 2020

“Mapping Technology,” Jennifer L. Wholey Lehman, Cornell AAP News Magazine, Fall 2019

“Beyond Transnationalism,” Amita Kini-Singh, Art Radar, September 2018

“Foreign returned: Between expatriate and repatriate in Mumbai,” Balamohan Shingade, Artlink Magazine, September 2018

Home and Belonging..., Hindustan Times, Riddhi Doshi, April 13, 2018

Lucid Dreams and Distant Visions: South Asian Art In The Diaspora, Art Asia Pacific Magazine, Diana Seo Hyung Lee, September 2017

Art In The Era of Identity Politics, Art Asia Pacific Magazine, Bharti Lalwani, September 2017

HERE: Locating Contemporary Canadian Artists, ARTFORUM Magazine, Murtaza Vali, September 2017

Distant Visions and Lucid Dreams, Julian A. Jimarez Howard, Whitehot Magazine, July 2017

Bringing the hyphen to the nation, The Globe and Mail, Kate Taylor, July 28, 2017

Lucid Dreams: Art of the South Asian Diaspora, Karen Pennar, Voices of NY, June 27, 2017

Lucid Dreams and Distant Visions, Art Review, The New Yorker, July 24, 2017

Another take on Canada at the Aga Khan Museum, Murray Whyte, Toronto Star, July 30, 2017

Fatal Love: Where Are We Now?, Tausif Noor, Art Asia Pacific Magazine, July 21 2017

What Makes a Canadian Artist?, Leah Sandals, Canadian Art Magazine, July 20, 2017

Strike a Pose, The Globe and Mail, April 12, 2017

The Future is Behind Us: The Work of Jaret Vadera, Diana McClure, Art In America, Nov. 2016

Artist Jaret Vadera On Creativity & Inspiration, Interview with PLASTIC, OBEAHH, June 27, 2016

Interview with Jaret Vadera, Charu Maithani, Proprioception, March 2016

New Poetics of Translation: An Interview with Jaret Vadera, Carla K. Stewart,
Breach Magazine – Issue 1: Decolonial Aesthetics, June 2015

Exhibition Review, Accented, Kareem Estefan, IBRAAZ, July 2015

Decoding Images, Hema Vijay, Deccan Herald, November 30, 2014

Of Butterflies, Dead Pixels, and Other Ideas, The New Indian Express, October 18, 2014
Art in the Context of Larger Ideas, The New Indian Express, October 20, 2014

Future Greats 2014, Naeem Mohaiemen, ArtReview Asia, Autumn & Winter Issue, 2014

Feeling the Doublebind, Deborah Frizzell, Depart Magazine, Issue 17, 2014

Profile / Interview, Shiba Kurian, Deccan Chronicle, September 8, 2014

Mapping Images, Swapnaa Tamhane, artVarta, Issue 1. 2013: 54-57

Transparent Studio: Interview with Jaret Vadera, Anita Sharma, Bose Archives, January 14, 2012

Blockgame, Zeenat Nagree, Time Out Mumbai, December 10–23, 2010

ELSE at Tilton Gallery, Diana McClure, DaWire, October 18, 2010

Art Review: Else, Holland Cotter, New York Times, September 24, 2010

Public art in Mumbai: Talking Civic Sense, Gitanjali Dang, CNN Go, May 27, 2010

/Younger Than Jesus / Artist Directory, The New Museum, NY. Phaidon Press, 2009

Review: Young Curators, New Ideas II, Kim Levin, ARTnews, October 2009

Young Curators, New Ideas II, Joseph Wolin, Time Out NY, Aug 20-26, 2009

Once In A Blue Moon, Zehra Jumabhoy, Art India - August 2009

Young Curators on the Art of New Ideas, Teri Duerr, NY Art Beat, August 2009

Diaspora Art, Sharmistha Ray, MW Magazine India, August, 2009

Beyond Boundaries, Ekatmata Sharma, The Pioneer, Tuesday August 25, 2009

Azaad Art, Ishita Sharma, Midday, August 17, 2009

Back, Forth and Round About, David Rothenberg, Evil Monito Magazine, March 2009

Art + Culture: Jaret Vadera, Diana McClure, CultureServe.net, September 2008

Queens International, Kate Lowenstein, Time Out New York, January 2007

Fatal Love, Priya Malhotra, Asian Art News Magazine, November / December 2005

In-Between, Splotches - Visual Pulse 014, February 2005

After a Glimpse Over the Top, Delve Magazine - volume 02, issue 06, January 2004

60 Second Interview: Jaret Vadera, Olly Farshi, Defunktion.net, November 2003

Metro Morning, Interview with Natasha Ramsahai, CBC Radio Toronto, July 11, 2003

Journal TV, Interview w/ Marie Francoise Stefani, FR3 Mediteranee, August 2, 2002

Un artist en vogue, Emmanuelle Peretti, CORSE-MATIN, July 27, 2002

Visual Voice, Interview with Christine Hirtescu, CIUT 89.5 fm, July 4, 2002

Rising Sun, Robert McNeil, Dojo Magazine, June 2002

After a Glimpse Over the Top, Wegway Magazine, April 2002

Jaret Vadera, MyBindi.com, February 2002

Media to Medium, Interview with Lydia Workman, CIUT 89.5 fm, December 13, 2001

Artists draw on spiritual side, Andrea Raymond, North York Mirror, June 11, 2001

Artists bring distinct style-, Olga Herrmann, The Scarborough Mirror, Jan 19, 2001

Contemporary Art 2001, Andrea Raymond, Surface and Symbol, December 2000

Contemporary Art 2000, Andrea Raymond, Surface and Symbol, December 1999

AWARDS AND HONOURS

2021
Visual Arts, Explore and Create Grant
Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, CA

2019
Watts Prize for Faculty Excellence,
Cornell University, Ithaca US

Cornell Council for the Arts, Arts Grant, Ithaca, US

2018  
Artist Grant, Cornell Council for the Arts, Ithaca, US

2017
Alserkal Artists-In-Residence, Dubai, UAE

2016-17
PES Artist-Researcher in Residence,
Gateway Project Spaces, Newark, US

2014
Artist Research Fellowship, DakshinaChitra, Chennai, IN

2013-14
Keyholder Residency
Lower East Side Printshop, New York, US

2013
The Balcão Residency, Goa, IN

Canada Council for the Arts, Visual Arts Section, Travel Grant, Ottawa, CA

2012
Transparent Studio Residency, Bose Pacia, New York, US

2009
Alice Kimball English Fellowship, Yale University, New Haven, US

2006
Emerge 8 Fellowship - Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, US

2002
Toronto Arts Council Artist Grant, Toronto, CA

Kathryn Minard Mixed Media Award, Toronto, CA

2001
Tyndale Award, Toronto, CA
Latcham Gallery Award, Toronto, CA

1999
Aboveground Drawing and Painting Award, OCAD University, Toronto, CA

LECTURES, SYMPOSIUMS, & PANELS

2022 
Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival, PA, US 
Asian Futurisms

Artist Talk 
Concordia University, Montreal, QC, CA 
On Asian Diasporic Futurisms, and Fugitive Manilamen 

2021 
Artist Talk 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, US 
On Slow Images, and Multivalent Objects  

Artist Talk  
The Power Plant, Toronto, ON, CA 
alien/alien
Field Trip: Jaret Vadera in conversation with Josh Heuman 

Artist Talk 
Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC, CA 
On Multivalent Storytelling 

Public Conversation 
Concordia University, Montreal, QC, CA 
On Diasporic Aesthetics: Jaret Vadera and Tairone Bastien 

Public Conversation  
The Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn, NY, US 
On the Third Space: Jasmine Wahi, Jaret Vadera, K. Desireé Milwood 

Artist Talk 
Tufts University, Boston, MA 
On Image-Making, and Image-Breaking  

Panel Chair 
College Art Association Conference, New York, NY, US 
Art, Techne, and Cultural Change 
Panelists: Heather Hart, Cristóbal Martínez, Kamal Sinclair, and Marlon Barrios Solano
New Media Caucus

Panelist  
College Art Association Conference New York, NY, US 
Critical New Media Art Resources 
Panelists: Livia Alexander, Rashin Fahandej, Avery Forbes, Darija Medic, and Jaret Vadera
New Media Caucus 

2020
Artist Talk 
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, US 
Asian American Studies Program Lecture Series
Multi-Positionality and Cultural Production 

2020
Artist Talk
Code-Switching and Fugitive Image-Making
Concordia University, Montreal, QC, CA

Artist Talk
Jaret Vadera in Conversation with Atif F. Sheik
12Gates, Philadelphia, PA, US

2019
Public Conversation
The Power Plant / OCAD University, Toronto, ON, CA
What we found after you left
Artists in Conversation Series
Naeem Mohaiemen and Jaret Vadera

Artist Talk
Concordia University, Montreal, QC, CA
on shadows, double negatives, and unreliable narrators

Artist Talk
Aliens, Code-Shifters, and Rude-Mapping
South Asia Program Lecture Series
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, US

2018
Public Conversation
Anti-Imperialism, Jeepney Moon Dreams, and Tito Deadpan
Conversation with Emmy Catedral
Pilipinx American Library / Wendy’s Subway, Brooklyn, NY, US

Artist Talk
where the ocean meets the sky
In conversation with Jasmine Wahi
Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ, US

Artist Talk
The Poetics of Entropy
Architecture, Art, and Planning Lecture Series
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, US

2017
Keynote Panel
DOUBLE DUTY: Agency and Cultrual Production, Asia Society, New York, US
Swati Khurana, Jaret Vadera, Asha Ganpat, Allan deSouza, and Naeem Mohaiemen. Moderator: Anuradha Vikram

Panel – Canadian Artists: Being HERE
Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, CA
Babak Golkar, Sukaina Kubba, Dawit L. Petros, Nep Sidhu, and Jaret Vadera
Moderator: Swapnaa Tamhane

Symposium Presenter
Embedded, Embedding: Artist Residencies, Urban Placemaking and Social Practice
Jaret Vadera in conversation with Gia Hamilton
The New School / Parsons, New York, NY, US

Reading
Speak Out, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, NY, US

2016
Reading
"I don't need your heroes"
Soapbox Responses, The High Line, New York, NY, US

Panel
Imagined Futures, Nerds of Color Salon, Smithsonian APAC, New York, NY, US

Artist Talk / Panel Discussion
BAYAN, A-Space Gallery, Toronto, ON, CA

2015
Artist Talk
Artist-Research, Visual Culture, The New School / Parsons, New York, NY, US

Co-Presenter with Yamini Nayar
Legibility, Dictionary of the Possible Series
The New School / Shifter Magazine, New York, NY, US (Organizers: Avi Alpert and Rit Premnath)

Reading and Closing Remarks
Reading Rizal: What Tomorrow Brings
Bowery Poetry Club and the Filipino American Museum, New York, NY, US

Lecture and Panelist
Knowledge Maketh a Bloody Entrance:
An Intersection of Visual Art and Literature,
NYU / Fordham University / Filipino American Museum, NY, US

Artist Talk – Art Forum Lecture Series, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, US

2014
Artist Talk
On Butterflies, Dead Pixels, and Other Spaces
Discussion led by Meenakshi Thirukode and Mathangi Krishnamurthy
Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, IN

Panel
Flatland: This World / Other Worlds
Sadanand Menon, and Jaret Vadera moderated by Meenakshi Thirukode
U.S. Consulate / Asian College of Journalism / DakshinaChitra Museum, Chennai, IN

Symposium
Artist Talk / Panel Discussion
A Community Exchange: The Socially Engaged Artist and the Public Imagination
Rick Lowe, May Joseph, and Jaret Vadera moderated by Shane Aslan Selzer
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, US

Artist Talk / Panel Discussion
Perspectives on Art and Resistance
Jaishri Abichandani, Naeem Mohaiemen, Yamini Nayar, Jaret Vadera, and Gary Tartakov
Moderated by Balamurti Natrajan
William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ, US

Conversation with Scott Andresen
After Art School
MFA Department, Louisiana State University,
Baton Rouge, LA, US

Co-Organizer
Artist Talks: Will Condry, Victor Davson, Chuck Schultz, and Fausto Sevila
Aljira, Center for Contemporary Art / New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, US

Co-Organizer
Artist Talks: Jerry Gant, Grace Graupe-Pillard, Shaun Leonardo and Mary Valverde
Aljira, Center for Contemporary Art / New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, US

Co-Organizer
Artist Talks: Cicely Cottingham, Rafael Sánchez, Fausto Sevila and Victor Davson
Aljira, Center for Contemporary Art / New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, US

Exhibition / Course-Related Talks
Aljira, Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ, US

2013
Organizer and Panelist
Experimental Video: 1-1=1
Mariam Ghani, Haig Aivazian, and Jaret Vadera moderated by Naeem Mohaiemen
Alwan Film Festival, New York, NY, US

Panelist
Video Art: Experiments in the Gallery
100 Years of Experimentation: A Retrospective of Indian Cinema and Video
Munir Kabani, Sahej Rahal, and Jaret Vadera moderated by Ashish Avikunthak
FD ZONE | Films Division of India, Mumbai, MH, IN

2010
Panelist
Malleable Memory
Vandana Jain, Gisela Insuaste, Nitin Mukul, and Jaret Vadera moderated by Margot Bourman
AICON Gallery, New York, NY, US

Artist Talk
Urban Assembly School of Music and Art, Brooklyn, NY, US

2009
Panel Moderator and Organizer
Art, Social Structures, and Cosmopolitan Contexts
Public Discussion with Jaishri Abichandani, Murtaza Vali, and Brendan Fernandes
Yale University School of Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, US

Co-Organizer
Artist Talk: Jaishri Abichandani
Yale University School of Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, US

2008
Artist Talk
Exploding the Lotus
Yamini Nayar, Vandana Jain, Jaishri Abichandani, and Jaret Vadera
Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FL, US

2007
Panel Moderator and Organizer
Concepts, Process and Materials - Things Fall Apart
Carmen Alvarado, Suzanne Broughel, Eddie Chu, Pierre Obando, and Ivan Stojakovic
Rush Arts Gallery and Resource Center, New York, NY, US

2003-7
Exhibition / Course-Related Talks
• 100+ talks to college and high school students, as well as community groups: ParsonsThe New School for Design, Hunter College, Empire State College, Columbia University, School of Visual Arts, Maryland Institute of Art, SoBro
Rush Arts Gallery and Resource Center, New York, NY, US

Panel Organizer
Concepts, Process and Materials Series
• United Black Girls, Believe, Fragmentation of the Self: Smeared, Smudged, Marked and Drawn, God Complex: Images of Power, More or Less: Generating Meaning through Process, Utopian Conquest: Ideal Domination, Recess: Images & Objects in Formation, and Homemade World: Reconstructed Images in Photography
Rush Arts Gallery and Resource Center, New York, NY, US

2006
Artist Talk
It’s not an easy thing to meet the maker…Paved Art + New Media, Saskatoon, SK, CA

RELATED EXPERIENCE

2021-Present
Assistant Professor
Intersectional, Feminist, & Decolonial 2D + 4D Practices
Department of Studio Arts
Concordia University, Montreal, QC, CA
• IMCA 610: Graduate Intermedia Studio
• IMCA 310: Intermediate Video Production Class
• PHOT 300: Photographic Vision: Theory and Practice II

2020-21
Affiliate Assistant Professor
Studio Arts
Concordia University, Montreal, QC, CA

2018-2021
Assistant Professor of Practice, New Media
Department of Art
Architecture, Art, and Planning
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, US
• ART 2701: Art, Culture(s), and Technology
• ART 3799: Hidden in Plain Sight
• ART 3799: Algorithms, Imaging, and Power
• ART 3005: Advanced Practice

2017
Critic ­
MFA Photography
Yale University, New Haven, CT, US
• ART 827: Art, Ethics, and Critical Race Theory

Visiting Instructor
MFA Integrated Practices
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, US
• FA 671: Integrated Practice

Visiting Instructor
Art and Design Education
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, US
• ADE 604: Contemporary Issues in Social Practice

Adjunct Faculty
MFA Studio
Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, US
• ARST 503: Independent Studio

2016
Visiting Instructor
Social Science and Cultural Studies Department
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, US
• SS-512: Art, Culture, and Community Development

Summer Institute Faculty
Asian American Studies
CUNY BMCC, New York, NY, US
• Cultural Production and Transnational / Diasporic Frameworks

Adjunct Faculty ­and Guest Critic
Art History Department and MFA Studio
Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, US
• ARHT 601: Selected Problems in Art History: Contemporary Art & Ideas
• ARHT 590: Modern Philosophies of Art I: Art and Ideas

Lecturer
Fine Arts Department
York College, Queens, NY, US
• FA104: Introduction to Fine Arts
• FA284: Computer Graphics I

Lecturer
Studio Art Department ­
Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, US
• ARTD 2811: Introduction to Digital Art

Panelist
Imagined Futures, Nerds of Color Salon,
Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, New York, NY, US

Artist Talk / Panel Discussion
BAYAN
A-Space Gallery,Toronto, ON, CA

Guest Lecturer
Artist-Research, Advanced Research Seminar: Visual Culture
The New School, New York, NY, US

Reading
I Don’t Need Your Heros,
Soapbox Responses, High Line Art, New York, US

2015
Co-Presenter
Legibility
Dictionary of the Possible Series
Discussion led by Yamini Nayar and Jaret Vadera
Shifter Magazine, The New School, NY, US

Adjunct Faculty
Art History Department­
Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, US
• ARHT 601.01: Selected Problems in Art History: Contemporary Art & Ideas
• ARHT 601.81: Graduate Independent Study

Lecturer
Studio Art Department ­
Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, US
• ARTD 2811: Introduction to Digital Art

Presenter
Reading Rizal: What Tomorrow Brings
Filipino American Museum and Bowery Poetry Club

Presenter and Panelist
Knowledge maketh a bloody entrance: An Intersection of Visual Art and Literature
Maia Cruz Palileo, Rico J. Reyes, Jaret Vadera and Aldrin Valdez moderated by Edwin Ramoran
Filipino American Museum and Fordam University

Artist Talk + Studio Visits
Art Forum Lecture Series
Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, US

Guest Artist Critic
Final Reviews: Issues of Representation
Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto, ON, CA

Visiting Artist Critic
MFA Studio Art Graduate Final Reviews
Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, US

Programmer
Derrick Adams: THE HOLDOUT
Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ, US

Programmer
Michael Paul Britto: Something In The Way of Things
Aljira, Center for Contemporary Art, NJ, US

2014
Artist Talk and Discussion
On Butterflies, Dead Pixels, and Other Spaces
Research and Discussion Lecture Series
Discussion led by Meenakshi Thirukode and Mathangi Krishnamurthy
Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, IN

Panelist
Flatland: This World / Other Worlds
Masum Momaya, Sadanand Menon, and Jaret Vadera moderated by Meenakshi Thirukode
Asian College of Journalism, DakshinaChitra Museum, and the U.S. Consulate, Chennai, IN

Visiting Artist Critic
Campus Art Dubai 3.0, Dubai, UAE

Artist Talk / Panel Discussion / Symposium
A Community Exchange: The Socially Engaged Artist and the Public Imagination
Rick Lowe, May Joseph, and Jaret Vadera moderated by Shane Aslan Selzer
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, US

Artist Talk / Panel Discussion
Perspectives on Art and Resistance
Jaishri Abichandani, Naeem Mohaiemen, Yamini Nayar, Jaret Vadera, and Gary Tartakov
Moderated by Balamurti Natrajan
William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ, US 

Co-Curator
Dream and Reality
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, US

Programmer
Windows on Market Projects
Aljira, Center for Contemporary Art, NJ, US

Programmer
I put this moment here...
Aljira, Center for Contemporary Art, NJ, US

2013
Curator / Programmer
Experimental Video / Art Program
1-1=1
Alwan Film Festival, New York, NY, US

Panelist
1-1=1
Mariam Ghani, Haig Aivazian, and Jaret Vadera facilitated by Naeem Mohaiemen
Alwan Film Festival, New York, NY, US

Artist Talk / Q & A
100 Years of Experimentation: A Retrospective of Indian Cinema and Video
FD ZONE | Films Division of India, Mumbai, IN

2010
Panelist / Artist Talk
Malleable Memory moderated by Margot Bourman, AICON Gallery, New York, US

2009
Co-Curator
Shifting Shapes - Unstable Signs
Yale University School of Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, US

Moderator / Panel Organizer
Art, Social Structures, and Cosmopolitan Contexts
Panelists: Jaishri Abichandani, Murtaza Vali, and Brendan Fernandes
Yale University School of Art Gallery, New Haven,CT, US

Organizer
Artist Talk: Jaishri Abichandani
Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, US

Teaching Assistant
Silkscreen Printing / Art 355b
Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, US

2008
Artist Talk
Exploding the Lotus, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FL, US

Printmaking Studio Monitor
Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, US

2006
Artist Talk
Its not an easy thing to meet the maker...
Paved Art and New Media, Saskatoon, SK, CA

Curator
Ghosts and Machines Exhibition
Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY, US

2004-7
Manager of Exhibitions and Design
Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY, US

2000-2
Communications Specialist / Project Manager
Community Arts Ontario / artsONline, Toronto, ON, CA

1999-2003
Freelance Arts Writer
Surface and Symbol, Toronto, ON, CA

1999-2000
Drawing and Painting Instructor
Cedar Ridge Creative Centre, Toronto, ON, CA

1997
Art Instructor
Regent Park - Youth Centre, Toronto, ON, CA