About Jim

Jim Frazer studied painting with Fairfield Porter while an undergraduate at Amherst College, after which he studied photography with John McWilliams while in graduate school at Georgia State University in Atlanta. With colleagues from Georgia State, he helped to start Nexus, a non-profit photography gallery that later became The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. He was the first photographer to have a solo exhibit at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, and his hand-colored photographs of Southern landscapes were widely collected and exhibited both regionally and nationally. In 1999, he moved with his family to Salt Lake City. After that move, he branched out from photography to a diverse practice that focused on mixed media works and collaborative installations. His newest work, though not appearing photographic at first glance, is nevertheless photo based, deriving from images of details taken from the natural world.

Reviews And Mentions:

15 Bytes, the online e-zine published by Artists of Utah has published several articles about my work over the years:

Jim Frazer: The Explorer in Mind – Artists of Utah’s 15 Bytes

What’s New: In 2018, Jim Frazer Hopes to Call Attention to Things That Have Been Overlooked – Artists of Utah’s 15 Bytes

In Wood or on Paper, Jim Frazer’s Glyphs Leave an Important Message – Artists of Utah’s 15 Bytes

Still Here: Jim Frazer – Artists of Utah’s 15 Bytes

Jim Frazer – Artists of Utah’s 15 Bytes

Here are two other online magazines that featured interviews with me:

Meet Jim Frazer – CanvasRebel Magazine

Life & Work with Jim Frazer of Sugarhouse – Voyage Utah Magazine

I was invited to address the 2023 Wallace Stegner Symposium at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney School of Law to speak about an artist’s perspective on the crisis facing the Great Salt Lake. Here is a video of my presentation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPaRqWxbK_c

This is a post about a webinar “Magnetic Magic” I gave in 2025 for the American Bookbinders Museum in San Francisco.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1ABhsdhuV3/

You can access this and many other excellent recorded webinars here:

https://bookbindersmuseum.org/recorded-webinars/

This article examines the work of a number of artists, myself included, who have been making work that references the marks made by bark beetles. https://www.deephistoriesfragilememories.com/lost-in-the-gallery-ips-typographus-in-contemporary-art/

The Minnesota Center for Book Arts post images of all the entrants work for the MCBA Prize. This shows my book San Juan, which didn’t win the prize but was acquired by the Kohler Art Library at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Jim Frazer, “San Juan” – The MCBA Prize

Collections:

My work has been collected by a number of museums and libraries around the country over many years. These are links to the online records from those collections:

Smith College Museum of Art

Patsiliga Creek near the Flint River, in Georgia

gelatin silver print hand colored in oil and colored pencil, 1982

Wassau Island (Pine)

gelatin silver print hand colored in oil and colored pencil, 1982

Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chattahoochee, Looking West

gelatin silver print hand colored in oil and colored pencil

Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts

Rocktown near Lafayette, Georgia

gelatin silver print hand colored in oil and colored pencil, 1984

Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia