Tomashi Jackson: Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Visiting Artist Lecture
Tomashi Jackson will deliver the Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Visiting Artist Lecture as part of the Sam Fox School’s Public Lecture Series at WashU.
About Tomashi Jackson
Tomashi Jackson combines practices of painting, printmaking, and sculpture with archival research in areas of public infrastructure policy. The work interrogates intersections between formal languages of visual art and political languages driving histories of segregation, voting rights, education, transportation, labor, and housing in the United States. Considering color as both chromatic and social, Jackson’s work embraces compositional abstraction to investigate the interaction of color and its impact on the perceived value of human life in public space.
Jackson’s solo museum exhibitions include “Across the Universe,” organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, and traveling to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Tufts University Art Galleries in Medford, Penn., and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; “SLOW JAMZ” at the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, N.Y.; “The Land Claim” at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, N.Y.; and “Love Rollercoaster” at The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, among others.
Her work was included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial and has been featured in group exhibitions at Kettle’s Yard at the University of Cambridge, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; High Museum, Atlanta; Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, among others. She is the recipient of the 2023 Rappaport Prize, the 2022 Roy R. Neuberger Prize, and the 2020 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant.
Her work is included in many public collections, including those of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; The Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; the Perez Art Museum, Miami; the Studio Museum, Harlem, New York; The Baltimore Museum of Art; The High Museum in Atlanta, Georgia; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Maryland; and the Tufts University Art Galleries. She lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her work is exhibited and represented by the Tilton Gallery, New York City; Night Gallery, Los Angeles; and Pilar Corrias Gallery, London.
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