Bio
Katherine Jackson is a Brooklyn-based artist who works with drawing, glass and light. Her work has been exhibited extensively in museums, galleries, colleges & universities, and public spaces in New York City, elsewhere in the US, Rome, Berlin, and Venice. Two of her large/scale long term public exhibitions celebrated the centennials of two iconic New York structures, the New York Public Library and the Manhattan Bridge. She was awarded a grant to place a 6 month exhibition addressing immigration in NY's Tenement Museum. A recent installation was included in both the Venice Architectural Biennale 2021, and the Venice Art Biennale 2022.
Exhibitions
2024 Among Friends, Metaphor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Group show.
2024 War, Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY. Group show.
2024 American Dream, Raynham Hall Museum, Oyster Bay, NY, Group show
2023 Paperwork, Space 776, New York, NY. Group show
2023 Among Friends, Equity Gallery, New York, NY. Group show
2022 Small Works, Royal Society of American Art, Brooklyn, NY. Group show.
2022 Not Even Home Will be With You Forever, Field Projects, New York, NY. Group show
2022 Detachments, Space 776, New York, New York. Group show.
2022 Directions/Into the Woods, Upstate Art Weekend, Lexington House, Lexington, NY. Group show.
2022 Personal Structures, Art Venice 2022, Venice Italy, Group show
2021 Haptic/Somatic: Art & Technology, Buley Gallery, Southern Connecticut State, University, New Haven, CT, Group show
2021 Time Space Existence, Architecture Venice 2021, Venice, Italy. Group show
2021 Proximity and Distance, Kunstraum, LLC, Brooklyn, NY. Group show
2020 Radical Women: Seeing Red, Odetta Harlem, New York, NY. Group show
2020 Turner's Patent Yellow ,Odetta Harlem New York, NY. Group show
2019 Illuminated, Odetta Gallery, New York, NY. Two person show.
2019 Sense of Place, 1GAP Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Group Show.
2019 Among Friends/Entre Amigos, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center, NY. Group Show.
2019 TEXT, Park Place Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Group Show.
2019 Newark Artists, Index Gallery, Newark, NJ. Group show.
2019 Artscience, Park Place Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Group show
2019 Material Lamentations,, Art, Grief, and the Land, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA. Group show.
2018 "Little Oil" on display. Novado Gallery, Jersey City. NJ.
2018 "How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea" (Shakespeare), Kehler Liddell Gallery, New, Haven, CT. Group Show.
2018 Among Friends, Brooklyn, NY. Group Show
2017 -18 The Big Small Show, The Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ. Group Show.
2017 Contour, Velvet Lounge, Brooklyn, NY, Group Show.
2017 Instances of an Expanded Limbo, www.changeartconcept.com, Rome, Italy. Group show.
2017 Seeking Space, Beyond Studios, Brooklyn, NY, Group show.
2017 Under the Same Sun: Democratic Spaces, Main Gallery, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ. Two person show.
2017 Focus on the Flatfile, Points of View, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY., Group show.
2017 Violence Transformed: Under Seige, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, Medford, MA, Group show.
2017 Text and Image, Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn NY. Group show
2016-7 The Big Small Show, The Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ. Group show.
2016 Trump Dada, The Rosemont Jazz Club, Brooklyn, NY. Group show.
2016 Children of Bellevue, 121 Varick St. New York, NY. Group show.
2016 Seeking Space: Making the Future!, David & Schweitzer Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Group show.
2016 Post Prelude, The Rosemont Jazz Club, Brooklyn NY. Group Show
2016 Gun Violence, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Group Show
2016 Mapping Spaces: Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY.Group Show
2016 Art + Science, Westchester Atrs Council, White Plains, NewYork. Group show.
2015 Art + Science, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh New York. Group show.
2015 Old Tech New Tech, Central Booking Artspace, New York, New York, Group show.
2015 Season X, Osilas Gallery, Concordia University, Bronxville, New York. Group show.
2015 Arts in Bushwick, Ten Eyck Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Group Show
2015 Mirror Totem, Permanent public art commission, Interface, New York, New York. Solo show.
2014-5 Paperazzi, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, New York. Group show.
2014-5 Ex Situ, Centotto Artspace, Brooklyn, New York. Group show.
2014-5 (L)Inked, (NYFA funded collaborative drawing project), Miranda Fine Arts, Port Chester, New York. Group show.
2014 The City as Subject, Westbeth Gallery, New York, New York. Group show.
2014 STEAM at Regeneron, Regeneron Headquarters, Valhalla, New York. Group show.
2014 STEAM: Art at the Core, Westchester Arts Council, White Plains, New York. Group show.
2014 Time and Again, Central Booking Artspace, New York, New York. Group show.
2014 Paperazzi, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, New York. Group show.
2013 Illuminators, OK Harris Works of Art, New York, New York. Group show.
2013 Out of Context, Manhattan Marymount College, New York, New York. Group Show.
2012 Central Booking in Berlin, K-Salon, Berlin, Germany. Group Show.
2012 Zu Mir Oder Zu Dir, Kunstraum Tapir, Berlin, Germany. Group Show.
2011/12 Storylights, 5th Avenue Reading Room, Art Wall on Third, Art in the Windows, Mid-Manhattan Library, New York, NY. Solo show.
2011 Color and the Mind’s Eye, Central Booking Art Space, Brooklyn, New York, Group show.
2010 Physics, Central Booking Art Space, Brooklyn, New York. Group Show.
2009 Bridges to Somewhere; windows installation, Hope Lives, The Educational Alliance, New York, New York. Group Show
2009 Le Petit Versailles, Community Garden, New York, New York. Installation.
2008 Outside, Le Petit Versailles, community garden, New York, NY. Installation in group show.
2008 Where Am I Going If Not Toward You?, Tenement Museum, New York, NY. Public art commission, January-June 2008. 2 person show
2008 Fugue, Miranda Fine Arts, Port Chester, New York, four person show.
2008 The Weird Merriment of Fact, Multimedia installation & solo show, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva NY.
2007 Etch A Sketch, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, New York.
2007 Contextual, Osilas Gallery, Concordia College, Bronxville, NY. Four person show.
2006 Break, Multimedia Installation, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont. Solo show.
2006 Peekskill Project, Peekskill New York. Individual and collaborative works.
2006 FINE PRINT, Ramapo College, Mahwah, New Jersey. Four person show.
2006 New Works on Paper, OHT Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts. Four person show.
2005 Undercover, Miranda Fine Arts, Port Chester, New York. Group show.
2005 December, Frisbee Miami (juried exhibition).
2005 Contextual; Concordia University, Ann Arbor Michigan. Three person show.
2005 Two day residency; installation, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont.
2005 Gallery Artists, Miranda Fine Arts, Port Chester, N.Y. Group show.
2004 Black, White and In Between, OH+T Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts. Group show.
2004 Art and Science Exhibit, ALL Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. Group show.
2004 The Peekskill Project, Hudson Valley Center of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
2004 Katonah Museum Exhibition, Valhalla, New York. Group show.
2003 Language, Nature, Symbol; The Poetics of Drawing, Henaine Miranda Gallery, Port Chester, NY. Four person show
2003 Handwriting on the Wall, OH+T Gallery, Boston Massachusetts. Two person show.
2002 Goethe-Institut Inter-Nationes, Boston, Massachusetts. Solo exhibition.
2002 OH+T Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts. Solo exhibition
2001 Invisible Cities, Zero Station Gallery, South Portland, Maine. Solo exhibition
2001 Abstractions: 22 Visions, Wiscasset, Maine. Group show.
2000 Expressions: New Work from the Allston Arts District, Federal Reserve Bank, Boston Group show.
1999 United Airlines Recognizing Talented Students. Boston, Massachusetts. Group show.
1999 Doubly Gifted, Atelier A/E, New York, New York. Group show.
Public Art
2008 Where Am I Going if not Towards You? Tenement Windows Project, Tenement Museum, New York, New York.
Collaborations
2005 (June) Participant, “Knowledge Lab”, Platform of international artists, In Transit, Festival of Dance, Music, & Theater, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin,
Germany.
2001 -- Member, Unwetter , collaborative artists’ group, Berlin, Germany.
Publications
2010 Bridges to Somewhere, The Southwest Review, vol. 95, #s 1&2 (images & text).
2009 The Weird Merriment of Fact, poems by David Weiss, Wolf at the Door Press (cover).
2008 Fulcrum, portfolio of images.
2008 Gnomon, poems by David Weiss, (cover , endpapers), Wolf at the Door Press.
2006, 2005 Seneca Review (covers).
2006 Rereceived Ideas: A Generative Dictionary for Research on Research, (drawing).
2006 Reversion, poems by Richard Fein, BrickHouse Books (cover).
2005 This Carrying Life, poems by Maureen McLane, Arrowsmith Press (cover).
2005 Camus Carnets, Poems by George Kalogeris, Pressed Wafer Press; (cover, drawing suite).
2004 Agni 60 (literary review), featured artist (cover, portfolio of images and text).
2002 “Time is Real,” The Brooklyn Rail, Spring issue. Media
2004 Homes Across America, HGTV, featured artist
Bibliography
"View Inside: Katherine Jackson," Paul D'Agostino, ART (inter) New York, April 9, 2016
“Putting the ‘A’ in STEAM, Susan Hodera, August 21, 2014
“Text Out of Context,” Peggy Roalt, Dart Design Arts Daily, 11 April, 2013
“Fine Print,” Ramapo College Art Galleries, 2006.
“New Works on Paper,” Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, February 18, 2006.
“The Gallery Artists,” D. Dominic Lombardi, The New York Times, April 3, 2005
“Introduction”, Sven Birkerts, Agni 6 0, 2024
“Drawings, Revealing Quirks and Idiosyncracies,” William Zimmer, The New York Times, October 5, 2003
“Obliterature,” Chris Thompson, The Portland Phoenix, August 17-23, 2001
“Abstractions: 22 Visions”, Philip Isaacson, The Maine Sunday Telegram August 12, 2001
“Art from Allston,” Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, December 14, 2000
Continuing Traditions: Doubly Gifted Artists, Visual Imagery and Words, ed., V.B.
Halpert, Atelier A/E, 1999. Catalogue for exhibition
Continuing Traditions: Doubly Gifted Artists, Visual Imagery and Words, Atelier A/E Video, 1999
Awards
2nd best group show in a commercial gallery, 2006, Association Internationale des
critiques d’art, New England chapter.
Teaching Experience
2006-7 Non-resident critic, MFA Program, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
2000 (Spring) Art teacher, after school program, The Pilot School (inner city middle
1998-9 Teaching Assistant, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
school), Dorcester, Massachusetts.
1997 Led 3-day art workshop (under aegis of Grened, a program to further education of Grenada youth), Grenville, Grenada
Assistant Professor of English Literature, Bowdoin College, Brunswick,
Maine Teaching Fellow in English Literature, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Education
Fifth Year Certificate Program, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Diploma, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ph.D. in English Literature. Harvard University, A.B.
