Ayana V. JACKSON
Introduction
Ayana V. Jackson's work examines the complexities of photographic representation and the role of the camera in constructing identity. Using performance and studio-based portraiture, her practice can be seen as a map of the ethical considerations and relationships involved between the photographer, subject and viewer. With a particular interest in the 19th and early 20th century representation of black bodies, Jackson steps into the world of her reference materials as a way to question the role, the history of photography and fine art played in the construction of race and gender stereotype. Through her portraits and photo montages, "Jackson gives us an imperfect, unfulfilled, virtual journey. She is in search of the grail of being while bound to the rack of non-being. It is this sense of constantly losing the ground beneath one's feet, this unerring sense of dancing in a void, which gives Jackson's art its profound melancholy." Ashraf Jamal
Born in the US, based between Johannesburg, New York and Paris, Jackson was a laureate for the 2014 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow for Photography, and the recipient of the 2018 National Black Arts Festival' s Fine Art and Fashion Award and has received grants from the Marguerite Casey Foundation, Inter America Foundation, US State Department as well as the French Institute, the latter supporting her participation in the 2009 Bamako African Photography Biennial. She has exhibited her work in association with the Blachere Foundation, the University of South Africa (UNISA), the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Newark Museum, Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Art (MoCADA), the Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (Marrakech) , and the Philadelphia African American Museum.
Public art exhibitions include, "The Space Between Us", in association with the Ifa Gallery (Berlin/ Stuttgart) and Round 32 of Project Rowhouses in Houston's 3rd ward (USA). Her photography has been featured in publications including the exhibition catalogue for "Poverty Pornography & Archival Impulse" produced as a collaborative effort between her Paris and Johannesburg galleries (2013) as well as the exhibition catalogue for her series "African by Legacy, Mexican by Birth" (produced in collaboration with writer/filmmaker Marco Villalobos in 2006). Academic journals include "Transition Magazine" (Hutchins Center, Harvard University), "n.paradoxa", "Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society" (Columbia University) and the Massachusetts Review. Jackson has also been featured in art reviews such as Art South Africa, Art + Auction, Camera Austria, Afrique in Visu, Proximo Futuro/Next Future (Gulbenkian Foundation), Dutch based ZAM magazine, and the New York Times Lens Blog.
Video of the exhibition "Intimate Justice in the Stolen Moment"
Biography
Ayana V. Jackson, born in 1977
She lives and works in New York and Johannesburg
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
- Take Me to the Water, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Chicago, USA
- Dear Sarah, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, USA
2018
- Intimate Justice in the Stolen Moment, baudoin lebon, Paris France
2017
- Intimate Justice in the Stolen Moment, Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, RSA
2016
- Dear Sarah, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Seattle, WA Future-Past - Imperfect - Gallery Momo, RSA
2015
- Archival Impulse, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Seattle, WA Archival Impulse, Galerie Capazza, Nancy, France
2014
- Archival Impulse & Poverty Pornography, Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
- Archival Impulse, Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa
2013
- African by Legacy, Mexican by Birth, Consulate General of Mexico, Los Angeles,CA
- Distant Selves, Galerie Sho Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
- Projection Surface, Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa
- African by Legacy, Mexican by Birth, Angkhor Photo Festival, Cambodia
- Looking Glass Self, Peter Hermann Gallery, Berlin, Germany
- 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: InsItuto Universitario de Barlovento, Higuerote, Venezuela
- Biblioteca Virgilio Barco, Bogota Colombia UNAN-Leon, Leon, Nicaragua
- Museo del Hombre, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
- Photo Basel online, with baudoin lebon & Gowen Contemporary, Basel, CH
- Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
- L'antichambre, acte 2 : Le Banquet, with baudoin lebon, Hôtel La Nouvelle République, Paris, FR
2019
- Photo Basel, with baudoin lebon, Basel, CH
- Smart to the Core: Embodying the Self, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA
- American African American, Phillips, New York, USA
- Corps ou âme, Gowen Contemporary, Geneva, CH
2018
- In Their Own Form, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
- New Feelings, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland Oregon
- The Photography Show by AIPAD, with baudoin lebon, New York, USA
- Africa Is No Island, Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden, Marrakech, Morocco
- The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, USA
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Nine Moments for Now, The Cooper Gallery, Cambridge, USANot A Single Story, NIROX Sculpture Park, Krugersdorp, South AfricaAll Power: Visual Legacies of the Black Panther Party, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, USA
2017
- Arts of Global Africa, Newark Museum, New Jersey, USA
- Art Paris Art Fair, with baudoin lebon, Grand Palais, Paris, FR
- The Photography Show by AIPAD, with baudoin lebon, New York, USA
- Back Stories, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Seattle, USA
- Transparency Shade/Seeing Through the Shade, Projects + Gallery, St. Louis, USA
- What Do They Call Me ?, Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, RSA
2016
- In Context 2016: Africans In America/Black Portraitures III, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, RSA
- African Forecast: Fashioning Contemporary Life, The Spelman College Museum, Atlanta, USA
- Being and Becoming: Complexities of the African Identity, University of South Africa, RSA
2015
- A Constellation, The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York City, US
- Something Else, Off Biennale Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
2014
- Warm Heart From Africa, Primae NocIs Gallery, Lugano, CH
- Névralgies I – Carte blanche à Myriam Mihindou, Galerie Maïa Muller, Paris, FR
- Casablanca Biennale,Casablanca, Morocco
- Michael Steinberg at 33 Orchard Gallery, New York, New York
2010
- New African Photography, Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa
- ECO, SEGAW, ECHO, XIANG, Project Row Houses Round 32, Houston, Texas
- The Mothership has Landed, Rush Arts, New York
2009
- Bamako Encounters / 8th African Photography Biennial, Bamako, Mali
2008
- The Shoot Out : A Lonely Crusade, Homage to Jamel Shabazz,The George and Leah McKenna Museum of African- American Art
2007
- Post Millennial Black Madonna Paradise/ Inferno, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporic Art (MoCADA) and Skylight
2006
- The Shoot Out, African American Museum, Philadelphia, USA
2005
- Visualized Rhythm, organized by Peter Hermann Gallery for The Africa FesIval, Potsdam, Germany Assembly International, Tara Herbst and Nicolas Siepen for KultursIpung des Bundes, Berlin,Germany
2004
- El Negro Mas Chulo: African by Legacy, Mexican by Birth, A Gathering of the Tribes Gallery, New York
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
- 2018 - Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
- 2017 - National Black Arts Festival Fine Art & Fashion Award, Atlanta, USA
- 2014 - New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for Photography, NY, USA
- 2013 - Ifitry, Essaouira, Morocco
- 2012-13 - Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR
- 2010 - Gallery Momo/Goethe-Institut, Johannesburg, South Africa
- 2010 - Light Works, Syracuse, NY
- 2009 - Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR
- 2006 - The Bakery Photographic Collective, Portland, USA
public collections
- The Studio Museum, Harlem, NY, NY
- The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
- Princeton University Art Museum, New S
- Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden, Marrakech, Morrocco
- Fondation Blachere, Apt, France
- The Wedge Collection, Toronto, Canada
- The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA
- The Mott Collection, Flint, USA
- The JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, New York, USA
- World Bank Collection, Washington DC, USA
- Alcatel Lucent Foundation, New Jersey, USA
- University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria, South Africa
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, USA
- Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, USA
- Hessel Museum of Art, NY, USA
Exhibitions
Art fair
PHOTO BASEL
Publication
editor : Baudoin Lebon
public price : 20 €
artistes : Ayana V. Jackson
auteur : Ayana V. Jackson et Achille Mbembe
editeur : Baudoin Lebon
langue : Français / Anglais
pays : France/ Afrique du Sud
format : 21 x 21 cm
reliure : carré collé cousu