Suzanne Jackson
Born 1944, St. Louis, Missouri;
Solo Exhibitions
2023 | ‘Somethings in the World’, Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Milano , Milan |
2022 | ‘Listen' N Home’, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago |
‘In Nature's Way...’, The Modern Institute, 14–20 Osborne Street, Glasgow | |
2019 | ‘News!’, Ortuzar Projects, New York, New York |
‘Five Decades’, Jepson Center, Telfair Museums, 207 W. York St. Savannah, Georgia | |
‘Holding on to a Sound’, O-Town House, Los Angeles | |
2015 | ‘Suggestions From Nature’, Temporary Agency , Ridgewood, New York |
2013 | ‘Birdmusic’, Indigo Sky Gallery, Savannah, Georgia |
2012 | ‘Suzanne Jackson’, Local 11 Ten, Savannah, Georgia |
2010 | ‘Lighter than Usual’, Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History, Danville, Virginia |
2009 | ‘Southern Shapes and Surfaces’, Phillip J. Hamilton Gallery, Savannah State University, Savannah, Georgia |
‘Suzanne Jackson’, Robert Ferst Center for the Arts, Georgia Tech University, Atlanta, Georgia | |
‘Suzanne Jackson’, Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg, West Virginia | |
2008 | ‘Beyond the Image’, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, Virginia |
‘Suzanne Jackson and Peter Hoss’, Albany Art Museum, Albany, Georgia | |
2007 | ‘Suzanne Jackson Monoprints: The Colored Garden’, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, California |
2005 | ‘Suzanne Jackson: Monoprints and Drawings’, Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia |
2002 | ‘Suzanne Jackson: A Drawing’, La Minime's Galerie, La Rochelle, France |
2001 | ‘Suzanne Jackson’, Café Metropole, Savannah, Georgia |
1999 | ‘Suzanne Jackson / Michael Rich’, Galerie Lumiere, Savannah, Georgia |
1986 | ‘Suzanne Jackson’, Black Like Me Gallery, San Francisco, California |
1985 | ‘Suzanne Jackson’, Sargent Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, California |
1984 | ‘Suzanne Jackson / Tom Corn’, Fashion Moda, South Bronx, New York |
‘Little Images’, Ingber Gallery, New York, New York | |
‘Suzanne Jackson: Recent Paintings’, Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, California | |
1981 | ‘Suzanne Jackson’, Exhibit A Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia |
1979 | ‘Suzanne Jackson’, Robert's , Venice, Los Angeles, California |
1978 | ‘Suzanne Jackson’, Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, California |
1976 | ‘Suzanne Jackson: Paintings and Drawings’, Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, California |
1974 | ‘Suzanne Jackson’, Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, California |
1972 | ‘Recent Paintings and Drawings’, Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, California |
‘Suzanne Jackson: Drawings and Paintings’, Fresno Art Center, Fresno, California | |
‘Suzanne Jackson: Paintings’, Haggin Art Galleries, Pioneer Museum, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California | |
‘Suzanne Jackson’, San Jose Art League, San Jose, California |
Group Exhibitions
2023 | ‘Re-Materialized: The Stuff that Matters’, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan |
‘Tennessee Triennial for Contemporary Art’, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville | |
2022 | ‘Joan Didion: What She Means’, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (Curated by Hilton Als) |
‘Just Above Midtown: 1974 to the Present’, MoMA, New York | |
‘Amalia Mesa-Bains: Venus Envy, Chapter I and Madrinas y Hermanas (Godmothers and Sisters)’, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco | |
2021 | ‘You've Come A Long Way Baby: The Sapphire Show’, Ortuzar Projects, New York, New York |
‘Now Is The Time: Recent Acquisitions to the Contemporary Collection’, Baltimore Museum, 10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, Maryland | |
‘I Know Where I'm Going - Who Can I Be Now’, The Modern Institute, 14–20 Osborne Street, Glasgow | |
‘I Know Where I'm Going Who Can I Be Now’, The Modern Institute, 14–20 Osborne Street, Glasgow | |
‘Off the Wall’, Mnuchin Gallery, New York, New York | |
2020 | ‘Winterfest: An Exhibition of Arts and Crafts’, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen |
‘Stars of Everything: Dial World, Part II’, David Lewis Gallery, New York, New York | |
2019 | ‘Entanglements’, Laney Contemporary, Savannah Georgia |
‘Denying The Calendar, The Wrinkles and Lines of The Body’, Grice Bench, Los Angeles, California | |
‘Please Recall To Me Everything You Have Thought Of’, Morán Morán, Los Angeles, California | |
‘Life Model: Charles White and His Students’, LACMA, Los Angeles | |
2018 | ‘West by Midwest’, MCA, Chicago |
‘Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power’, Brooklyn Museum | |
2016 | ‘Reflections of the Self: Selections from the Permanent Collection’, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, California |
2012 | ‘Places of Validation, Art & Progression’, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, California |
2011 | ‘Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980’, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Exhibition traveled to MoMA PS1, Queens, New York; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
2010 | ‘Why Go Anywhere Else?’, Center of Contemporary Art, Petrović Castle, Podgoncia, Montenegro, Exhibition traveled to Modern Gallery, Budva, Montenegro; Kod Homena Gallery, Kotor, Montenegro; Gallery Josip Bepo Benković, Herceg-Novi, Montenegro; O3ONE Art Space, Belgrade, Serbia; Cvijeta Zuzorić Art Pavilion, Belgrade, Serbia; Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia. |
‘Normal Editions Workshop Collaborative: Prints, 1976—2008’, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, Pennsylvania | |
2009 | ‘Gallery 32 & Its Circle’, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California |
2005 | ‘African American Artists in Los Angeles: A Survey Exhibition’, Charles Luckman Fine Arts Complex, California State University |
2000 | ‘The Right to Be’, Ely House Museum, New Haven, Connecticut |
1989 | ‘The Sixties: A Cultural Awakening Reevaluated, 1965 - 1975’, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, California |
1985 | ‘California Black Women Artists’, Museum of African American Art, Los Angeles, California |
1981 | California African American Museum, Los Angeles, California |
‘Forever Free: Art by African-American Women 1962-1980’, Center for Visual Arts, Illinois State University, Normal Illinois , Exhibition traveled to Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina; The University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, Maryland; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana. | |
1978 | Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery |
1977 | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC |
1975 | ‘Selected Visions, Black Expressions: Charles White, Suzanne Jackson, William Pajaud’, Haggin Art Galleries, Pioneer Museum, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California |
1974 | ‘Synthesis’, Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York, New York |
‘Directions in Afro American Art’, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York | |
‘West Coast ’74: The Black Image’, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, California, Exhibition traveled to Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California. | |
1973 | ‘Black Mirror’, Womanspace Gallery, Los Angeles, California |
‘Blacks U.S.A. 1973’, New York Cultural Center, New York, New York | |
‘Diana Bates Edwards, Suzanne Jackson, Mary O’Neal’, De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California | |
‘Art of Black Americans, '73’, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California | |
1971 | ‘Black Untitled II/Dimensions of the Figure’, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland |
1970 | ‘Sapphire Show: You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby’, Gallery 32, Los Angeles, California |
‘Two Generations of Black Artists’, Fine Arts Gallery, California State College, Los Angeles, California | |
1968 | Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, California |
Bibliography
Press
2023 | Rhea Dillon: Artist‘s Favourites, Spike, 76 20/07/2023 |
2021 | McCullough, Barbara : ‘Suzanne Jackson’, Bomb Blog, 19/10/2021 |
Thomas, Alexandra M.: ‘A Landmark Show of Black Women Artists Gets a Second Life’, Hyperallergic.com, 27/07/2021 | |
Scott, A.: Rediscovering A Revolutionary Gallery Show of Black Women‘s Art, The New Yorker, 03/07/2021 | |
2020 | Jackson Suzanne: ‘Mary Lovelace O’Neal by Suzanne Jackson’, Bomb Magazine, 28/09/2020 |
‘The Artsy Vanguard 2020’, Artsy, 20/09/2020 | |
Miller, M. H.: ‘Black Gallerists and Artists’, The New York Times Style Magazine, 13/04/2020 | |
2019 | Smith, Melissa: ‘We Had to Do It For Ourselves‘: Legendary Gallerist and Artist Suzanne Jackson on Why the Art World Has Never Gotten Her Story Right, artnet, 20/11/2019 |
Felsenthal, Julia: ‘An Artist Who Makes Paintings Without a Canvas’, The New York Times Style Magazine, 19/11/2019 | |
Quinn, Chase: ‘The Paradoxes of Gallerist and Artist Suzanne Jackson’, Frieze, 27/09/2019 |
Exhibition Reviews
2021 | Valentine, Victoria L.: ‘Black Female Artists Who Got Their Start in 1960s and 70s are Focus of Two Group Exhibitions in New York’, Culture Type, 31/07/2021 |
Hopkins, Zoë: You‘ve Come a Ling Way, Baby: The Sapphire Show, The Brooklyn Rail, 13/07/2021 | |
‘Your Concise New York Art Guide for’, Hyperallergic.com, 13/07/2021 | |
Loos, Ted: ‘A Supernova Still Glows 51 Years Later’, The New York Times, 16/06/2021 | |
Financial Times, 10/06/2021 | |
Loos, Ted: A Rare Spotlight on Black Women‘s Art Still Shines After 51 Years, The New York Times, 06/06/2021 | |
2020 | Adamson, Glenn: Suzanne Jackson‘s Ethereal Acrylic Hangings Connect Autobiography and Abstraction, Art in America, 17/02/2020 |
Heinrich, Will: ‘What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries’, New York Times, 09/01/2020 | |
‘Suzanne Jackson Ortuzar Projects’, The New Yorker, 06/01/2020 |
Publications
2022 | Suzanne Jackson: Five Decades, Telfair Museums, Savannah, Georgia |