Trained as an oil painter at York University in Toronto (BFA) and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA), he is currently working on a suite of paintings based upon research of social and political events of the past and present. Outside the studio, he is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he teaches studio and seminar classes in the Contemporary Practices and Arts Administration and Policy departments. His work is represented in the collections of Todd Oldham, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre and the Doris McCarthy Gallery at the University of Toronto. Recent projects include a solo exhibition at Slow in Chicago, a group drawing survey at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and a four-month research and production residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris funded by the Canada Council for the Arts. Jason Dunda, Mai Dang Lao. Oil on linen, 2016. 30 x 36”