Jay Walker — (1982/TEXAS)

Born in 1982 in Sweeney, Texas, Jay Walker possessed a childhood compulsion to create that was honed by his mother, an art teacher, and his father, a photographer. After earning his undergraduate degree at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and his MFA at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), he spent 19 years in Philadelphia developing a studio practice rooted in material experimentation.

Walker’s career is defined by a desire to invert and expand traditional methods. Moving from figure drawing to painting clothing without the body, he began using tape to create hard lines, eventually realizing the tape itself could be the medium. This sparked the "Plaid Shirt Project," a global street art series spanning 50 countries, and immersive installations covering walls, windows, and even vehicles. His large-scale tape and vinyl works have been featured in exhibitions internationally and in major public installations for organizations, corporations, and universities.

Now living and working on a remote ranch near Goliad, Texas, Walker has shifted from ephemeral installations back to creating individual works with the Prismatic Polygon series. Utilizing a visual language of personal archetypes—hearts, hands, skulls, life jackets, and patterns—he explores vibrant, hard-edged abstraction. This current body of work represents the latest link in a continuous chain of antitheses, evolving from his early practice of figure drawing through years of radical shifts in medium and space.”