artist statement

I’m interested in the meaning we put into objects and how that shapes how we see ourselves. Over time that meaning becomes value, and value becomes power. I call this accumulated meaning weight. My work traces how weight builds.

I came up as a graphic designer and still think like one, in symbols and systems. Design taught me how meaning attaches to a form, and how little it takes to shift it.

I work across painting, illustration, typography, photography and apparel, and let the idea choose the medium.

Jason Guillard is a visual artist working across painting, illustration, typography, photography and apparel. Rooted in design and material culture, his work explores where meaning sits in everyday things. He began working as a graphic designer in 2012 and has since worked in visual merchandising and art direction.

His murals in Miami and Mexico City include L’Union fait la force (2020) and the identity and mural for Blaxicocina, the first soul food restaurant in Mexico City (2022). In 2022 he showed works featuring Twin, his recurring crowned figure, in a group exhibition with Diaspora CDMX during Mexico City Art Week. In 2024 he won Soho House’s internal t-shirt design contest. His other work includes the drawing series Twin Origin (2018), the digital portrait series X-Ray (2022), and garments taken apart and rebuilt by hand.

He lived in Mexico City from 2021 to 2023. In 2025 he spent four months in Nairobi, documenting travel, studio work and the making of furniture built to his design in a behind-the-scenes series. He completed a short course in fashion business at UAL (2019). In 2026 he launched his house, Guillard Haus, with Mademwazèl I, a limited-edition print. He writes the Substack Taste Level and is based in Miami.