Tomashi Jackson
Lives and works in Cambridge, MA and New York City, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Silent Alarm, Pilar Corrias, London
Across the Universe, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, PA
Across the Universe, Tufts University Art Galleries, Boston, MA
2023
Across the Universe, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
2022
SLOW JAMZ, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
2021
The Land Claim, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY
Brown II, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2020
Love Rollercoaster, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
2018
Interstate Love Song, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA
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
2023
Narrative as Reality: Constructing an Identity, Martin Museum of Art, Baylor, US
Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (forthcoming)
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
Multiplicity, Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
2022
What Is Left Unspoken, Love, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Working Thought, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
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
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
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
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
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
Give and Take: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Re:Framed, Re: Art Show, Brooklyn, NY
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
Fever Grass (A Benjamin Menschel Fellowship Exhibition), The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2008
Drawing Atmosphere, Super Front Architectural Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY
2007
For All We Know, The Cooper Union New York, NY
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
Lead Facilitator, Harlem School for the Arts, New York, NY
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
2023
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum’s Rappaport Prize, 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