Press
Coverage and exhibitions.
National press on Indigenous art fraud, gallery exhibitions across Canada, and film of Jason carving and restoring poles at his Tsax̱is studio.
"I've been battling Indigenous art fraud for 30 years."
Jason Henry Hunt, writing in Maclean's, 2023"I've been battling Indigenous art fraud for 30 years. It's only getting worse."
Jason's first-person essay on the market for fraudulent Northwest Coast art and why buying directly from artists matters.
Read the essayThe global industry of fake Indigenous art
Jason joined CBC's Unreserved to talk about the global industry of fake Indigenous art and what it takes to push back.
Read the story ·"He spends about a third of his professional life restoring the work his family has made."
Waddington's, Innovation and Restoration"Nephew restoring his uncle's totem poles at Nootka Court"
On Jason's restoration of four Tony Hunt Sr. poles in downtown Victoria, in collaboration with his uncle Richard Hunt.
Read the article"Restoration of Nootka Court totems begins with a family twist"
CHEK's television segment on the Nootka Court project.
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"Innovation and Restoration: A Conversation with Jason Henry Hunt"
The auction house's interview on innovation within tradition and the restoration work that anchors his practice.
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"Fishing reel connects Vancouver Island carver with Royal Family"
The hand-carved PEETZ reel carried Jason's design "Orca, Salmon & Moon" in mahogany, brass and abalone, its abalone moon, in his words from the Sunnylands exhibition catalogue, a "symbol of transformation and a guiding light in the darkness". The City of Victoria chose it as its gift to William and Kate in 2016, decades after his great-grandfather Mungo Martin and grandfather Henry Hunt carved a pole gifted to Queen Elizabeth II in 1958.
Read the articlePEETZ Outdoors celebrates its 90th anniversary
PEETZ marked its 90th year with the PEETZ artist series, in signed and numbered editions of 90, with a portion of proceeds going to salmon conservation.
Read the announcement"Jason Henry Hunt stands as a torchbearer of the Kwagulth artistic tradition."
Stonington Gallery, SeattleExhibitions
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Sunnylands Center & GardensSeptember 11, 2019 to June 7, 2020
"Reach for the Sky: Tradition + Inspiration", Rancho Mirage, California. 52 works pairing the art of Herb Alpert with, for the first time in the United States, three generations of Kwakiutl carving: Henry, Stanley and Jason Hunt.
Exhibition catalogue (PDF) - Stonington Gallery, SeattleAugust 2025
"Jason Henry Hunt: A Solo Exhibition", new work shown at the gallery's Pioneer Square space.
Exhibition page - Stonington Gallery2020
"Jason & Trevor Hunt: Bloodlines", an online exhibition of new work by Jason and his brother Trevor Hunt.
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