Jayson Scott Musson is a gorilla in a tie. If he’s not wasting hours upon hours re-watching the cantina shoot-out between Han Solo and Greedo as if it were the Zapruder film, then Jayson Scott Musson is sleeping. If he’s not sleeping then he’s eating. Once he’s done eating, he then takes a small hike into the forest where he digs a hole into the earth so he can have sex with the planet. “I’m trying to make a golem like a Hebrew wizard.” Mr. Musson declares as his reason for this violation of Mother Earth’s sacrosanctity. This is the closest Mr. Musson will ever come in being either a scientist or a father.

Jayson Scott Musson lives in the city of New York, the Big Apple as they used to say, where he sometimes writes, sometimes plays around with his crayons in the production of visually arresting stuffs, and sometimes wonders “How much money can you really make breakdancing on a subway, especially if you have to split your earnings amongst 3 people. It doesn’t seem like a feasible way to make a living... and all that sweat!”

Here’s a more official bio if you’re interested.

And here’s his meager CV if you’d like to see that as well.

JAYSON SCOTT MUSSON

Born in Bronx, NY. Lives in Brooklyn, NY

EDUCATION

2002 BFA in Photography, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2011 MFA, Painting, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

2011 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012

A True Fiend’s Weight, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Halcyon Days, Salon 94, New York City, NY

2011

The Grand Manner, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Neoteny | The Hard Sell, Marginal Utility Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2009

Barack Obama Battles the Pink Robots, The Last Drop, Philadelphia, PA

2008

Too Black For BET, Dazed & Confused Magazine Gallery, London, England

2006

Too Black for BET, Episode II: The Black Boy George, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA

2002

Too Black for BET, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012

Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX

Funny. FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY

Through a Glass, Darkly, Postmasters, New York, NY

First Among Equals, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA

2011

Don’t Get High On Your Own Supply, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL

Change The World or Go Home, Down Stairs at Great Brampton House, Herefordshire, England

I FEEL LIKE I’M DISAPPEARING, GETTING SMALLER EVERY DAY/ BUT WHEN I LOOK IN THE MIRROR, I’M BIGGER IN EVERY WAY, West Galerie, Den Haag, The Netherlands

Reformation, Somerset County Jail, Skowhegan, ME

Mortal Mirror, Bodega, Philadelphia, PA

2010

SYNCOPATION, Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany

2009

Rich Text, Fleisher-Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2008

Disinhibition: Black Art and Blue Humor, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL

2007

Dig, H&F Fine Arts, Mount Rainier, MD

Blood In, Blood Out, 96 Gillespie, London, England

Locally Localized Gravity (performance), Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA

2006

Morgellons, Fleisher-Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia PA

Vernacular Spectacular, Meyerson Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Peer Pleasure 1, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2005

Shy Teeth, The Padlock Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2004

Beaver College, Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2012

It’s a Small, Small World, Family Business, New York, NY

PERFORMANCES AND LECTURES

2012

Tell You What the 80s Like, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

C Magazine CSchool Lecture Series, Drake Hotel, Toronto, Canada

2011

The Dialogue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Ill

Museum of Modern Art, Ft. Worth, TX

University of Cincinnati, OH

Performa 11, Performa Ha!, Manhattan, NY

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

SCREENINGS

2012

VIDEO 2012, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY

2011

Cognitive Dissonance (as Hennessy Youngman), Cottage Home Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2010

Date with Deceit (as Hennessy Youngman), Green Lantern Gallery, Chicago, IL

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Through a Glass, Darkly: Postmasters, New York Times, April 2012

How To Make It In The Art World, New York Magazine, April 2012

Jayson Musson is More Than Hennessy Youngman, Interview Magazine, March 2012

Hennessy Youngman offers Offbeat Art Criticism, New York Times, February 2012

HuffPost Arts Interviews Hennessy Youngman Of Art Thoughtz, January 2012

It’s All Over, Art Forum, January 2012

Biting the Hand That Feeds Them, ArtNews, December 2011

Ali G With an MFA, Art in America. March 2011