AYANA V JACKSON
AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY ARTIST
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
I
AYANA V. JACKSON
b. United States; based between New York, Paris, and Johannesburg
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Los Hilos Invisibles Son Los Lazos Más Fuertes, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Mexico City, MX
From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC
2019 Paris Photo, Mariane Ibrahim, Paris, France
Take Me to the Water, Mariane Ibrahim, Chicago, IL
Dear Sarah, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI
Untitled Art Fair, Mariane Ibrahim, San Francisco, CA
2018 InDmate JusDce in the Stolen Moment, Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
2017 Dear Sarah, Mariane Ibrahim, SeaOle, WA
2015 Archival Impulse, Mariane Ibrahim, SeaOle, 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, US Department of State: Instituto Universitario de Barlovento, Higuerote, Miranda, Venezuela
Viajes Personales, Biblioteca Virgilio Barco, Bogotá, Colombia Viajes Personales, UNAN-Leon, Leon, Nicaragua
Viajes Personales, Museo dele Hombre, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
2004 African by Legacy, Mexican by Birth (Series 1), Inter-America Foundtion/ National Council of La
Raza/Inter-Agency Consultation on Race in Latin America, Washington, DC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Framing the Female Gaze: Women Ar<sts and the New Historicism, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx NY Black Venus, Somerset House, London, UK
Black Venus, Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
2022 Black Venus, Fotografiska, New York, NY
La Vie en Rose, Mariane Ibrahim, Chicago, IL
Art Basel, Mariane Ibrahim, Basel Switzerland
The Armory Show, Mariane Ibrahim, New York, NY
2021 True Pictures? Contemporary Photography from Canada and the USA, February Sprengel
Museum, Hanover, Germany
J’ai Deux Amours..., Mariane Ibrahim , Paris, France
2020 Riffs and RelaDons: African American ArDsts and the European Modernist Tradition, The Phillips
Collection, Washington, DC
What Does Democracy Look Like?, Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia Chicago, Chicago, IL
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, Seatle, 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, Seatle, 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, Atlanta, USA
A ConstellaDon, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Being and Becoming: ComplexiDes 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, SeaOle, 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
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2022 Alturas Foundation, San Antonio, TX
2018 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow
Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C
2013 Ifitry, Essaouira, Morocco
2012 Cité International des Arts, Paris, France
2010 Gallery Momo/Goethe-Ins<tut, Johannesburg, South Africa
Light Works, Syracuse, NY
2009 Cité International des Arts, Paris, France
2006 The Bakery Photographic Collective, Portland, ME
COLLECTIONS
CCS Bard College Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, US
Fondation Blachere, Apt, France
Museum of African Contemporary Art Al-Maaden, Marrakech, Morocco
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
National Museum of African Art Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA, US
The JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, New York City, NY, US
The Montclair Museum, New Jersey, US
The Mott Collection, Flint, MI, US
The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, US
The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, US
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, US