Jay Daugherty

Jay Daugherty (b. 1985) teaches art history at a posh boarding school for girls in Connecticut, where his most popular class is on the history of Buddhist Art. While viewers need not have any familiarity with this subject to appreciate his abstract surrealist dream worlds, he earned a Master of Philosophy in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies from the University of Oxford and esoteric Buddhist philosophy forms the secret backbone of his oeuvre. In addition to painting, his scholarly writing appears in the peer-reviewed journal Himalaya. Also, he’s been a guest contributor to the Journal of the History of Ideas blog, and he is currently writing a literary fiction novel.

“Lucky Me, Lucky Mud” and “Icarus”

“The Cannibal’s Cantabile,” “The Difference Between an Opera and a Frying Pan,” and “The Number 5 Never Occurs in the Mineral Kingdom”