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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 Brooklyn Museum Artists Show, Brooklyn, NY. Group Show
2024 4Heads (Rockaway Portal), New York, NY. Group Show.
2024 Volta Art Fair, New York, NY

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.

Email   kathrjax@gmail.com

Tel    617-875-0509

435 South 5th Street # 2

Brooklyn, NY 11211

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