Jax Ohashi
About Jax
Jax Ohashi (b. 1997, Fairfax, Virginia) is a multidisciplinary artist who creates work that centers on gender, healing, humor, and speculative design. As a trans man with a background in product design and anthropology, his art aims to examine and present the possibilities of being transgender in an understandable way.
His work explores a topic that many viewers have misconceptions about by creating speculative products and spaces. He seeks to bring together communities that many assume are disparate with the power of art and design.
All we have are our semantics. If you don’t like yourself, then who should? The most important tool in any studio is a pencil.
- GMU Stearns Center Faculty Capacity Building Grant / 2024-25
- GMU College of Visual and Performing Arts Outstanding Graduate Award / 2022-23
- VisArts Next Gen 11.0 / 2023
- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 2022-23 Graduate Fellow
- Graduate High Impact Grant / Spring 2021
- GMU School of Art GTA position / 2019-current
- Tim Wood Memorial Chrysalis Award / 2019
B.F.A., Industrial Design - Rochester Institute of Technology
M.F.A., Sculpture - George Mason University