Jay Bailey was Battle Born in Reno, Nevada in the year 1976. He has a BA in Fine Art from the University of Nevada in Reno, undertook post-baccalaureate studies at the San Francisco Art Institute and has his MFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

His work is a figurative approach to depicting the human animal in all of its grace and monstrosity. As a product of the western United States, he employees an iconic language that invokes the culture and history of the west, as well as, a western approach to storytelling and myth. Known for its violent and sexual energy, his work is a visceral assault on the conventions of power, the individual, and freedom.

He has worked on an independent horror comic book, record art and layout, band merchandise design, web site design, and illustration. He has worked for large design firms at the height of the Internet Bubble and has worked independently as an artist and designer. He's drawn in the midnight hours in Mexican cemeteries. He's walked the bone-filled sewers of Paris. He's toured the dirtiest clubs of the United States with grindcore bands. He has shown work in group and solo shows in both America and abroad. He has also taught general and advanced drawing, figure drawing, painting, watercolor, and digital photography classes at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

He currently lives in Las Vegas, Nevada with his wife, daughter, and their two dogs.

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