Born in Houston, TX, 1980. Lives and works in New York, NY.
EDUCATION
2019
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME
2016
MFA, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2012
MS, MIT School of Architecture and Planning, Cambridge, MA
2010
BFA, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Silent Alarm, Pilar Corrias, London, United Kingdom
2023
Minute By Minute, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO; Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA (2024); Tufts University, Medford, MA (2024); Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX
2022
The Great Society, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
SLOW JAMZ, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
2021
Platform: Tomashi Jackson, The Land Claim, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY
Brown II, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2020
Tomashi Jackson: Love Rollercoaster, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
Forever My Lady, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Time Out of Mind, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
2018
Interstate Love Song, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA
2016
The Subliminal Is Now, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
2014
Love Economy: Emerging Visions of the African American Experience, Michigan State University, Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, East Lansing, MI
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Form and Feeling, curated by Ashton Cooper, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Century: 100 Years of Black Art at MAM, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
2023
Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American College, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN
Narrative as Reality: Constructing an Identity, Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University, Waco, TX
2022
What Is Left Unspoken, Love, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Working Thought, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
The New Bend, curated by Legacy Russell, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, traveled to Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, CA in 2022; Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, UK in 2023
Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
A Species of Theft, Gallery 400, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL
2021
Encounters: Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY
New Light: Encounters and Connections, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Now Is The Time, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Off the Record, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Light, curated by Rico Gaston, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
2021 Texas Biennial: A New Landscape, A Possible Horizon, San Antonio and Houston, TX
2020
States of Mind: Art and America Democracy, Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, TX
Majeure Force, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Young, Gifted, and Black: The Lumpkin Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art, Lehman College Gallery of Art, Bronx, NY
Slowed and Throwed: Records of the City Through Mutated Lenses, Contemporary Arts Museum
Houston, Houston, TX
2019
Great Force, The Institute for Contemporary Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Rosebud, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
cart, horse, cart, curated by Michael Goodson, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
Hold On Hold Me, curated by Kenny Rivero, Charles Moffett Gallery, New York, NY
Whitney Biennial, curated by Rujeko Hockley and Jane Panetta, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Hinge Pictures: Eight Women Artists Occupy the Third Dimension, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
2018
The Strangeness Will Wear Off, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
New Suns, Pararmo Galeria, Guadalajara, Mexico
Nine Moments for Now, Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & American Art, Hutchins Center, Harvard, Cambridge, MA
Take Up Space, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
What We Make, Richard M. Ross Museum, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH
Cosmic Traffic Jam, Zevitas Marcus, Los Angeles, CA
Form Shapes Language, Morán Morán, Los Angeles, CA
Surface of a Sphere, Klowden Mann Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Give and Take: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Re:Framed, Re: Art Show, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Jane Cavalier and Nicole Kaack)
The Legacy of the Cool: A Tribute to Barkley L. Hendricks, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2017
On Documentary Abstraction, ArtCenter/South Florida, Miami Beach, FL
Souvenirs: New New York Icons, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, NY
Immigrancy, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
Say It Loud: Art, History, Rebellion, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI
In the Abstract, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
2016
Double Dip, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2015
“Tools for Remediation (Red76 Artist Collective),” Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Art in Odd Places 2015: RECALL, New Museum, New York, NY
RESPOND, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
2014
History Design Studio, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Living As Form, Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
The Measure of All Things, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA
2013
Ex•ile, El Rincon Social, Houston, TX
2012
Bring Your Own Beamer, Knockdown Center, Queens, NY
Art in Odd Places 2012: MODEL, New York, NY
Bruceforma, Performance Dome, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY
2011
Experience Economies 4: A Chamber Play, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2010
The Brucennial/ Bruceforma 2, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York, NY
Going Under, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2009
Liberating Landscapes, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Fever Grass (A Benjamin Menschel Fellowship Exhibition), The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2008
Drawing Atmosphere, Super Front Architectural Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY
Publication-Schmublication, The Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
2007
For All We Know, The Cooper Union New York, NY
2001
Soul on Rice: A Two-Woman Exhibition, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND RESIDENCIES
2022
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art + Swoon International Artists Residency, Swoon Art House, Boulder, CO
2021
Artist-in-Residence, The Watermill Center, Watermill, NY
Visiting Lecturer, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2019
ARCAthens Visual Art Fellow, Athens, Greece
Resident Artist at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME
Adjunct Professor of Sculpture, Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY
2018
Adjunct Professor of Painting, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Adjunct Professor of Drawing, Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY
2017
Adjunct Professor of Painting, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI Assistant
Professor, Studio for Interrelated Media, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA
2016
Adjunct Professor of Drawing, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA
Visiting Artist & Guest Critic, New York University, New York, NY
Game Recognize Game: Artists and Athletes Speaker Series, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2015–16
Guest Critic, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
Appointed Teacher’s Assistant, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2011-13
Video Editor for Otto Piene and Elizabeth Goldring, Boston, MA
2011
“The Uncertainty Principle” by Bernard Burke, Live Play Reading, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
TalkDraw@MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Artist in Residence, The Buckley School, Sherman Oaks, CA
2009
Curator, Fever Grass (A Benjamin Menschel Fellowship Exhibition), The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2008
Curator, Drawing Atmosphere, Super Front Architectural Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY
Everything There and Not There, The Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
Curator, Publication-Schmublication, The Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
Lead Facilitator, Harlem School for the Arts, New York, NY
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
2023
Rappaport Prize, deCordova Sculpture Garden and Museum, Lincoln, MA
2022
Roy R. Neuberger Prize, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
2020
Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant
2019
Andy Warhol Foundation Grant Recipient for Support for a Single Exhibition at the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, summer 2020
2016
Toby Devan Lewis Prize 2016, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2015–16
Blair Dickinson Memorial Scholarship, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
2015
Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
JUNCTURE: Art and Human Rights Law Fellowship, Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT
2012
MIT Office of the Dean of Graduate Education, Graduate Student Life Grant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
2011
MIT Office of the Dean of Graduate Education, Diversity Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
MIT Council for the Arts, Project Grant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
2010-11
MIT Presidential Tuition Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
2010
Richard Lewis Bloch Memorial Prize, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2008
Benjamin Menschel Fellowship for Creative Inquiry, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2005
Full-Tuition Scholarship, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Glenstone Museum, Potomac, MD
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY
Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL
Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
PUBLICATIONS
2024
Gale, Nikita, et al. Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe. Rizzoli, 2024
2021
Erni, Corinne, Tomashi Jackson, Eric N. Mack, and Kelly Taxter. Tomashi Jackson: The Land Claim. Parrish Art Museum, 2021.
Hunt, Courtney and Michele Jennings. My Work Is Work: Artistic Research Practice and Knowledge Creation in the Work of Carmen Winant and Tomashi Jackson. Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America. Volume 40, Number 1, Spring 2021. Pages 33-51.
2020
Sarra, Janis and Cheryl L. Wade. Predatory Lending and the Destruction of the African-American Dream. Cambridge University Press, 2020. Cover by Tomashi Jackson.
Rachel Vogel, ed. Tomashi Jackson: Brown II. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 2020.
Antwaun Sargent, ed. Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists. Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2020.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024
Maya Pontone, “Tomashi Jackson Layers History to Reveal Contemporary Injustice,” Hyperallergic, January 23
2023
Aruna D’Souza, "Artists of Color Ask: When is Visibility a Trap?" The New York Times, October 26
Bindu Bansinath, ”The Guggenheim Goes Dark: A group of artists on the perils of being seen,” New York Magazine, October 23 - November 3
Ikechúwú Onyewuenyi, “Grief has its own abstract language. Tomashi Jackson shows you how,” Los Angeles Times, September 29
Editors, ”Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage September 15–December 31, 2023," The Tennessee Tribune, September 19, 2023.
Emma Glassman-Hughes, “Somerville-based painter and multimedia artist Tomashi Jackson awarded Rappaport Prize by deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum,” The Boston Globe, August 24
Eden Lane, “Two modern artists with very different works find a commonality in their message,” CPR News, August 18
Zoe Stockwell, "Check Out the Latest Summer Exhibitions from Denver MCA," 303 Magazine, June 22
Isaac Vargas, “MCA Denver's summer exhibitions investigate the histories of Black and Indigenous identities, now on display until September 10,” Denverite, June 16
2022
"The Artist's Way: 24 Hours in the Creative Life," The New York Times Style Magazine, April 24.
2021
Parsons-Thomason, Lian. "The Evolution of Brown." Radcliffe Magazine, November 23.
Klett, Maddie. "Tomashi Jackson with Maddie Klett." The Brooklyn Rail, October.
Wells, George. "Collector George Wells on How His Gift to Morehouse College Raises Hope for Future Generations." ARTnews, October 28.
Walsh, Colleen. "Creating art from Radcliffe Archives." The Harvard Gazette, September 27.
David Carrier, "Tomashi Jackson Rediscovers Long Island's Beleaguered Past,” Hyperallergic, September 15.
Karen Rosenberg, "Tomashi Jackson on the Hidden Histories of Land Dispossession in the Hamptons." Artful, August 5
Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, "Artist Tomashi Jackson Uncovers the Hidden Histories of
Indigenous, Black, and Latinx People in the Hamptons." ARTnews, July 26.
Hilarie M. Sheets, ”Tomashi Jackson Harvests Histories From the Land of Plenty,” The New
York Times, July 8.
Liza Mullett, "The Out East Revival of Hamptons Art,” Cultured, July 2.
Natalie Haddad, “Four Artists Recall a Year to Forget,” Hyperallergic, January 2.
2020
Natalie Haddad, “Tomashi Jackson’s Many Shades of Voter Suppression,” Frieze, December 30.
Justin Kamp, "Tomashi Jackson and Kahlil Robert Irving are among Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant recipients,” November 4
Amarie Gipson, "Project: Tomashi Jackson," Artforum, Print October/November.
Vivian Chui, “Artist Tomashi Jackson Mines the Manifold Histories of Systemic Inequality,” Cultured Magazine, October 21.
Nancy Gilson, "Visual Arts: Voting is timely topic of powerful Wexner Center for the Arts exhibition," The Columbus Dispatch, October 18.
Valentina Di Liscia, "Artists Like Jeffrey Gibson and Carrie Mae Weems Encourage Voting
With New Billboards," Hyperallergic, October 14.
Tessa Solomon, "Tomashi Jackson’s Powerful Art Reckons with America’s Present and
Overlooked Histories," ARTnews, September 28.
Casey Lesser, "The Artsy Vanguard 2020: Tomashi Jackson," Artsy, September 11.
Mark Segal, "The Art Scene 08.06.20: Video Projections at Parrish," The East Hampton Star, August 6.
Sarah Cascone, "Editors’ Picks: 17 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From a Peek Into MoMA’s Film Vault to the Parrish Reopening," artnet news, August 4.
Zoë Lescaze, "12 Artists On: The Financial Crisis," T: The New York Times Style Magazine, July 21.
Dan's Arts & Entertainment Team, "Parrish Art Museum Receives NEA Grant for ‘Tomashi Jackson: The Land Claim,’" Dan's Papers, June 12.
Maximiliano Durón, Claire Selvin, Tessa Solomon, "ARTnews in Brief: Night Gallery Now
Represents Tomashi Jackson—and More from May 29, 2020," ARTnews, May 29.
Artnet News Staff Writers, "Art Industry News: Night Gallery Represents Tomashi Jackson," artnet News, May 29.
Sharon Mizota, "Review: Hank Willis Thomas, Tomashi Jackson and a different kind of color theory," Los Angeles Times, February 6.
“Tomashi Jackson Presents Forever My Lady @ Night Gallery in Los Angeles," Autre, January 22.
2019
Weber, Jasmine. “In Richmond, Tracing the ‘Great Force’ of American Racism.” Hyperallergic, December 19.
“New ICA exhibit, ‘Great Force,’ to include late Free Press founder.” Richmond Free Press, October 4.
Goldstein, Carol. “A Buyer’s Guide to the Whitney Biennial: What You Need to Know About the Exhibition’s Brightest Rising Stars.” Artnet news, May 22.
Davis, Ben. “The 2019 Whitney Biennial Shows America’s Artists Turning Toward Coded Languages in Turbulent Times.” Artnet news, May 20.
Cotter, Holland. “The Whitney Biennial: Young Art Cross-Stitched With Politics.” The New York Times, May 16.
Carrigan, Margaret. “Whitney Biennial aims to focus on artists but – as protests mount – it cannot escape politics.” The Art Newspaper, May 13.
Loos, Ted. “Why These 4 Whitney Biennial Artists Art Making Waves; Galerie visits Tomashi Jackson, Wangechi Mutu, Samuel Basawule, and Lucas Blalock in their studios.” Galerie Magazine, May 10.
Mitter, Siddartha. “The Whitney Biennial Called. How Will They Answer?” The New York Times, May 9.
Norman, Lee Ann. “Eight Women Visual Artists Use Duchamp’s Provocation as a Springboard.” Hyperallergic, May 3.
Cascone, Sarah. “Editor’s Picks: 18 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World, Frieze Week Edition.” Artnet news, April 29.
Bookhardt, Eric D. “Art Review: ‘Hinge Pictures: Eight Women Artists Occupy the Third Dimension.’” Gambit, April 22.
Hamilton, William L. “Displaced Artists Open a New Front at the Brooklyn Army Terminal.” The New York Times, April 22.
Mena, Kelly. “Noted Artist Tomashi Jackson’s Work Highlights KCP’s Real Estate Scandal Series At The Whitney.” Kings County Politics, April 15.
2018
“Burnaway’s Best of 2018,” December 28.
Fitzpatrick, Kyle Raymond. “Stories Told via Sculpture, Large-scale Installations and More,” August 6.
Whitley, Zoe. “Black art: Do-it-yourself, do-it-right-now.” Financial Times, April 27.
Laster, Paul. “What to See at the Armory Show, Volta, NADA, and the Independent.” Galerie, March 5.
Martinique, Elena. “VOLTA NY 2018- A Place for Creative Discovery.” Widewalls, February 26, 2018.
Sirlin, Deanna. “Review: Tomashi Jackson prays for Atlanta transit in “Interstate Love Song.” Arts ATL, February 12.
Brodeur, Michael Andor. “Stoke of Genius.” The Boston Globe, January 22.
Goyanes, Rob. “On Documentary Abstraction.” The Miami Rail, January 19.
Mufson, Beckett. “Legacy of the Cool: A Tribute to Barkley L. Hendricks.” Vice, January 19.
2017
Uszerowicz, Monica. “Using Abstraction as a Political Tool.” Hyperallergic, November 29
Rakes, Rachel. “Notes on Abstraction, Politics, and Arts of the Real.” Contemporary Art Stavanger, October 10
Estape, Taylor, “The Best Free Events in Miami This Week.” Miami New Times, September 25
Rodney, Seph, “How to Embed a Shout: A New Generation of Black Artists Contend with Abstraction.” Hyperallergic, August 23
McQuaid, Cate. “How Modern was Grandma Moses?” The Boston Globe, July 20
Kinsella, Eileen. “Here’s What Sold at the Armory Show’s VIP Preview Day.” Artnet news, March 2
Kinsella, Eileen. “Gallery Hopping: Last Chance To See Tomashi Jackson at Tilton Gallery.”Artnet news, December 30
2016
Puleo, Risa. “The Linguistic Overlap of Color Theory and Racism.” Hyperallergic, December 14
Walker, Julie. “16 Artists Who Made Sure Black Lives Mattered at Art Basel Miami Beach.” The Root, December 5
Steinhauer, Jillian. “Reflections from Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter.” Hyperallergic, September 15
James, Ashley. “Vibrating Boundaries.” Double Dip, edited by Ashley James and Sarah Robbins, Yale School of Art, 2016, p. 56 – 61.
Tabin, Sarah. “YUAG Explores Art and Human Rights.” Yale Daily News, March 11
Kirwin-Taylor, Ivan. “Game Recognize Game.” The Yale Herald, March 4
Stein, Sarah. “Black Leaders Talk Sports, Art.” Yale Daily News, February 29
Beer, Tea. “Event Explores Intersection of Art and Athletics.” Yale Daily News, February 17
McCoole, Veena. “Thesis Show Highlights Painting and Printmaking.” Yale Daily News, February 10
2015
Black History Mini Docs: History Made Presents Tomashi Jackson
2014
Lewis, Caleb M. "Living As Form" Combines Art and Activism." The Harvard Crimson, February 11
2012
Fisher, Cora. “Rhythm and Blues: Tomashi Jackson.” Bomb Magazine, October 31
Holland, Christian. “Tomashi Jackson’s Invisible Labor.” dis/patches, October 12
Erickson, Ruth. “Innovate or Die-Boston.” Art Papers, May/June
2004
Briscoe, Daren. "Community Unveiled in Mural.” Los Angeles Times, April 25