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A Y A N A  V  J A C K S O N

 

 

Education
 

2005

 

Studied at The Universität der Künste, Berlin, Allemagne

 

1995-1999

 

Spelman College, Atlanta, United States

Languages

 

English

Spanish

French

2010 - present

2010 - present

Selected solo exhibitions
b. United States; based between New York, Paris, and Johannesburg 
2019     Paris Photo, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Paris, France
              Take Me to the Water, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Chicago, IL
              Dear Sarah, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI
              Untitled Art Fair, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018     Intimate Justice in the Stolen Moment, Galerie Baudoin Lebon,                           Paris, France
2017     Dear Sarah, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Seattle, WA
2015     Archival Impulse, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Seattle, WA
              Archival Impulse, Galerie Capazza, Nancy, France
2014     Archival Impulse, 33 Orchard (Curated by Michael Steinburg),
                   New York, NY
2013     Distant Selves, Galerie Sho Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan                            Archival Impulse & Poverty Pornography, Galerie Baudoin Lebon,                       Paris, France
              African by Legacy, Mexican by Birth, Consulate General of Mexico,                     Los Angeles, CA
2010     African by Legacy, Mexican by Birth, Angkhor Photo Festival,                               Cambodia
2008     Looking Glass Self, Peter Hermann Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2007     African by Legacy, Mexican by Birth, Mijares Gallery in                                           Collaboration with UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2006     Viajes Personales, Bluefields Indian and Caribbean University,                              Bluefields, Nicaragua
              African by Legacy, Mexican by Birth, Guadeloupe Arts Center, San                      Antonio, Texas
              Galeria de la Raza, organized by the San Francisco Mexican                                  Museum, San Francisco, CA
2005      Viajes Personales Tour, US Department of State: Instituto                                    Universitario de Barlovento, Higuerote, Venezuela Biblioteca                          Virgilio Barco, Bogotá, Colombia UNAN-Leon, Leon, Nicaragua                      Museo dele Hombre, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
2004       African by Legacy, Mexican by Birth (Series 1), Inter-America                               Foundation/ National Council of La Raza/Inter-Agency                                     Consultation on Race in Latin America, Washington, DC
Selected group exhibitions
2020       Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European                           Modernist Tradition, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC 2019       ARCOmadrid, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Madrid, Spain
                Smart to the Core: Embodying the Self, Smart Museum of Art,                             Chicago, IL
                American African American, Phillips, New York, NY
2018       The Legacy of Lynching, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford, PA                    Nine Moments for Now, The Cooper Gallery, Cambridge, MA
                In Their Own Form, Museum of Contemporary Photography,                              Chicago, IL Not A Single Story, NIROX Sculpture Park,                                        Krugersdorp, South Africa
               New Feelings, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
               Africa Is No Island, Museum of African Contemporary Art Al-                              Maaden, Marrakech, Morocco
                All Power: Visual Legacies of the Black Panther Party,                                              Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
2017
               Transparency Shade/Seeing Through the Shade, Projects +                                   Gallery, St. Louis, MO
               Arts of Global Africa, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
               Back Stories, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Seattle, WA
               Artissima, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Turin, Italy
2016       In Context 2016: Africans In America/Black Portraitures III,                                   Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
                African Forecast: Fashioning Contemporary Life, The Spelman                             College Museum, MARIANE IBRAHIM Atlanta, USA
                A Constellation, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY                        Being and Becoming: Complexities of the African Identity,                                   University of South Africa, South Africa
                1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery,                             London, UK 2015
                1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery,                              New York, NY
                1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery,                              London, UK
                Something Else, Off Biennale Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
                Seattle Art Fair, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Seattle, WA
2014       Warm Heart from Africa, Prima Noctis Gallery, Lugano,                                         Switzerland
                1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Primo Marella Gallery,                                    London, UK
                Névralgies I – Carte blanc à Myriam Mihindou, Galerie Maïa                                  Muller, Paris, France
 
Collections
 
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Museum of African Contemporary Art Al-Maaden, Marrakech, Morocco Fondation Blachere, Apt, France
World Bank Art Collection, Washington, DC
The Wedge Collection, Toronto, Canada
Alcatel Lucent Foundation, New Jersey, US
The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
The Mott Collection, Flint, MI
The JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, New York, NY
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
CCS Bard College Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection (The Bunker)
National Museum of African Art Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
 
Awards & Residencies
 
2018       Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow,
                      Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
2013        Ifitry, Essaouira, Morocco
2012-13  Cité International des Arts, Paris, France
2010        Gallery Momo/Goethe-Institut, Johannesburg, South Africa Light                        Works, Syracuse, NY
2009 Cité International des Arts, Paris, France
2006  The Bakery Photographic Collective, Portland, ME 
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