Curriculum Vitae
Jason Keiser
Born 1978 in East Chicago, Indiana, USA
Lives and works in Goshen, Indiana, USA
Education and Memberships
1997-2002 Bachelors Degree in Painting and Drawing
Grace College, Winona Lake, Indiana
Faculty Mentor Professor Timothy W. Young
2016-2017 Transition to Teaching-Secondary Visual Arts
Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana
Faculty Mentor Doctor Suzanne Ehst
An Associate Member of the Hoosier Art Salon
Selected Exhibitions
2026 Group Exhibition, “102nd Hoosier Art Salon” Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, IN
2025 Juried Exhibition, 47th Annual Elkhart Regional Juried Show, Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN
2024 Solo Exhibition, Village Art Gallery, Valparaiso, IN
2024 Juried Exhibition, 46th Annual Elkhart Regional Juried Show, Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN
2024 Art Show, Art’s on the Millrace, Goshen, IN
2024 Juried Exhibition, Michiana Annual Arts Competition, Box Factory for the Arts, Saint Joseph, MI
2024 Group Exhibition, “Around the Bend”, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN
2024 Group Exhibition, Cass County Regional Gallery Exhibit, Cassopolis, MI
2023 Juried Exhibition, 45th Annual Elkhart Regional Juried Show, Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN
2022 Juried Exhibition, 44th Annual Elkhart Regional Juried Show, Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN
2022 Art Show, Art’s on the Millrace, Goshen, IN
2021 Group Exhibition, Cass County Regional Gallery Exhibit, Cassopolis, MI
Awards
2025
Winner: Best in Show. Arts on the Millrace, Goshen, IN
2022
Winner: Scott & Kristin Mereness Purchase Award for Welcome to Warren Dunes. Midwest Museum of American Arts, 44th Annual Elkhart Regional Juried Show, Elkhart, IN
2022
September Featured Artist: Pan-O-Ply; Story & Art of Michiana Magazine
2022
Winner: People’s Choice Award. Arts on the Millrace. Goshen, IN
2017
Winner: Mayor’s Art Council Scholarship Winner, Goshen, IN
Artist Bio
Based out of Goshen, Indiana, Jason Keiser has been exploring the art and beauty of landscapes since the 2020 lockdown. Initially inspired by local landscapes, he has since explored parts of the American West through commissioned works and personal travels. Jason works primarily with oil paints, charcoal and ink.
Jason has a bachelor’s degree in Painting & Drawing. He is a 2021 People’s Choice award winner and 2025 Best in Show winner at the Arts on the Millrace in Goshen, IN. He has had work accepted for several Juried Shows at the Midwest Museum of Art in Elkhart, IN. He has exhibited at the Box Factory for the Arts in Saint Joseph, MI, the Around the Bend Salon Show at the South Bend Museum of Art and most recently the 102nd Hoosier Salon Show at the Indiana State Museum in Indianapolis, IN.
He is a teacher of the arts, husband and the father of 2 sons and a daughter.
Artist Statement
My passion for landscape painting and drawing first began during the spring of 2020. During the global shutdown, I used my extra time to explore a part of Art that I had never tried before. I became intrigued by landscape painting. As the outside world was gripped with fear and uncertainty I was inspired to use Art of the landscape to capture the beauty of the natural world. I wanted my work to serve as a reminder to others and myself as to how truly beautiful this world is during a time of anxiety and uncertainties.
The goal of my landscape work is not to capture a scene in a hyper-photo realistic manner. Although my work is representational of a scene, my focus is more on the experience and sensations that compelled me to capture that moment in time. Nearly all of my artworks are taken from a personal experience within nature. Within each of those moments there was something that had inspired me to pause and document the experience. Sometimes my interest was attracted to the glow of sunlight, the colors or textures within the scene or objects, and sometimes it was simply the majesty or memories of a moment. My work is completed through photographic references as well as ‘en plein air’, or ‘in the open air’ paintings.
I view the work of a landscape painter as something similar to a gardener. Just as a gardener shapes and refines the beauty of a natural environment I strive to do that through each of my paintings. As humans, we are often struck by the beauty of a sunset, the majesty of a mountain range or the rhythmic crashing of ocean waves. In these moments we connect our spirits to the divine and find beauty in the wild chaos of nature. My goal as an artist is to capture these experiences not just through the grandeur of a mountainscape, but also through the common, everyday scenes that wait for the eye and hand of an artist to reveal.