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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
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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