Tomashi Jackson (b. 1980, Houston, TX) received her BFA from Cooper Union; her MS in Art, Culture and Technology from the MIT School of Architecture and Planning; and her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale University School of Art.
Jackson was included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial and was a 2019 Resident Artist at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. In 2026 she was awarded the Wagner Arts Fellowship. She received the de Cordova Sculpture Park and Museum’s Rappaport Prize in 2023 and the Roy R. Neuberger Prize in 2022, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant in 2020.
Works by Jackson are included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Guggenheim Museum, New York; MOCA, Los Angeles; Columbus Museum of Art, OH; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill; Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; and the Studio Museum in Harlem, to name a few,
Her mid-career survey Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe traveled from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Tufts University Art Galleries, Massachusetts; and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Jackson has also presented solo exhibitions at the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase; Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill; Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge; Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus. She has participated in group shows at The Glass House, New Canaan, CT; the Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston; The Guggenheim Museum, New York; Kettle’s Yard at Cambridge University, Cambridge; Institute for Contemporary Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among many others. Jackson lives and works between Cambridge, MA, and New York City.