Jared Packard is an artist and curator whose practice moves between studio-based work and collaborative exhibition-making. His paintings and installations use material processes—raw canvas, fragmentation, and stitching—to explore how identity is constructed through contradiction, vulnerability, and performance. Packard’s paintings embrace stigma and flaw as poetic modes of constructing self, examining the politics of identity performance in relation to queerness, visibility, and undetectability—not as fixed conditions, but as states that move between exposure and opacity. His curatorial work extends these concerns into shared space, bringing together artists whose practices interrogate systems of power, visibility, and cultural production.
Alongside his studio and curatorial practice, Packard works as a program and operations manager, developing and producing exhibitions, public programs, and events that bring artists, ideas, and audiences into meaningful engagement. His work is grounded in collaboration—supporting artists through production, dialogue, and project development—and in building the conditions for ambitious, artist-centered work to take shape.
Alongside his studio and curatorial practice, Packard works as a program and operations manager, developing and producing exhibitions, public programs, and events that bring artists, ideas, and audiences into meaningful engagement. His work is grounded in collaboration—supporting artists through production, dialogue, and project development—and in building the conditions for ambitious, artist-centered work to take shape.