Jason Campbell, working under the diminutive [ell], is an artist and spatial designer, leveraging archival processes, performance, spatial theory, and sculpture. With interest and training in architecture and photography, Campbell tends to spaces and materials marked by 'productive tensions,' the dualities and incongruent narratives found in everyday life.

Campbell has exhibited in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, and Chicago with work currently on display at the Chicago Cultural Center -- a contribution to the 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial. He is a 2025 Graham Foundation grant awardee and a 2024 Building Design + Construction 40 under 40 honoree. He has taught undergraduate and graduate advanced option studios at UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design, where his studios prioritized the immaterial and narrative structure of decommissioned and derelict objects, spaces, and the productive tension between seemingly incompatible ideas.

Ongoing inquiries delve into:

the collection and performance for acts of care, self-conditioning, and the space of introspection - an ongoing project that is currently reimagining a 250lbs. shattered tempered car glass collection swept from the streets of Oakland, CA. - the Society for Care and Maintenance;

and HOME PRODUCTIONS: reconstructions of the post-colonial home through memory, photograph, archival processes, and perspectival drawing technique – including works acquired by the Smithsonian NMAAHC digital archive, and commissioned for the 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial.

Seeking space to feel deeply...a resonance between the quiet, the rational and the unhinged.

Here, there is no singular interest or type. Obsessions surface unknowingly, yet this flow aims to arrange disparate parts that typically exist in tension - what we thought wouldn't fit, wasn't possible, wouldn't make sense, or what we weren't ready for.