Jason Kofke understands a culture through images of what has been abandoned, discarded, or abrogated. He uses art as salvage ethnography to attribute meaning to events and artifacts of the past. His projects empathize with communal historical experiences and attempt to make sense of the present through a re-exploration of a common history. 

Kofke is a recipient of a 2015 ELEVATE (Atlanta) Award, a 2011 Artadia Grant and a 2009 Idea Capital Grant. He has been awarded residencies at The Canadian Wilderness Residency Program in Yukon, Canada, La Wayaka Current Desert Residency in the Atacama Desert, Chile, WAAW Analog Extreme residency in the Sahara of Mauritania, Farm Studio Residency in Rajasthan India, The Creative Project in Atlanta, Georgia, The Arctic Circle Project in Svalbard, Norway, Old School Residency in Gorna Lipnitsa, Bulgaria, Milkwood Residency in the Czech Republic, ARCUS Project in Moriya, Japan, Odysseys Residency in San Ramon, Costa Rica, Long Stories Project in Perm, Russia, ArtPrint Residence in Barcelona, Spain, Living Walls Conference in Atlanta, USA, the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, China, and the Elizabeth Foundation in New York City, USA.

Biography: artist's website.