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SUZANNE JACKSON

SUZANNE JACKSON

Biography

Suzanne Jackson (b. 1944, St. Louis) first moved westward with her parents to San Francisco, after which the family continued north to Yukon Territory. She came of age in the remote natural environment of pre-statehood Alaska, later returning to the Bay Area to study painting and theater at San Francisco State University, and dance at the Pacific Ballet. She settled in Echo Park in 1967, where she worked as an artist and teacher, and attended Charles White’s drawing class at Otis Art Institute. Jackson engaged a community of artist and activist peers—including David Hammons, Timothy Washington, Alonzo Davis, Dan Concholar, Senga Nengudi, George Evans, Gloria Bohanon, Betye Saar, and Emory Douglas—through Gallery 32, which she ran from her studio in the Granada Buildings near McArthur Park from 1968 to 1970. Her first solo exhibition in Los Angeles was held at the Ankrum Gallery in 1972.

Jackson works in Savannah, Georgia, where she has lived since 1996. She is a 2019 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant and was recently the subject of a major retrospective exhibition and monograph, Five Decades, organized by the Jepson Center for the Arts, Telfair Museums, Savannah (2019). She has exhibited solo projects at O-Town House, Los Angeles (2019), Danville Museum of Fine Arts, Danville, Virginia (2010), and Fashion Moda, New York (1984). Her work has featured in institutional surveys and historic exhibitions including Life Model: Charles White and His Students, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2019); West by Midwest, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2018–19); Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, Brooklyn Museum, New York (2018–19); Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2011–13); Gallery 32 & Its Circle, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles (2009); Synthesis, Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York (1974); Directions in Afro American Art, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca (1974); and Black Mirror, Womanspace Gallery, Los Angeles (1973). 

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Works

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Suzanne Jackson, El Paradiso, 1981-84

Suzanne Jackson, Hers and His, 2018

Suzanne Jackson, Lizzie and Me with Friends, 2005

Suzanne Jackson, Swim-Wildlife Refuge, 2008

Suzanne Jackson, Talk, 1976

Suzanne Jackson, Then, to be Alone, 2018

Exhibitions

You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby: The Sapphire Show
Exhibition
You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby: The Sapphire Show
Gloria Bohanon, Suzanne Jackson, Betye Saar, Senga Nengudi, Yvonne Cole Meo, Eileen Nelson June 8 – July 31, 2021
Suzanne Jackson
Exhibition
Suzanne Jackson
News! November 20, 2019 – January 25, 2020

Art Fairs

Frieze Los Angeles 2022
Art Fair
Frieze Los Angeles 2022
Suzanne Jackson February 17 – 20, 2022

Press

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SUZANNE JACKSON IN LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS

What is L.A. Art? by Perwana Nazif

Spring 2022

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SUZANNE JACKSON RECEIVES 2022 JACOB LAWRENCE AWARD IN ART

ADMINISTERED BY THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS

4/19/2022

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SUZANNE JACKSON, CARRIE MAE WEEMS, KARA WALKER, RALPH LEMON, ET AL. ON FAITH RINGGOLD IN INTERVIEW MAGAZINE

ASK ME ANYTHING: HOW AND FROM WHERE DO YOU LOOK AT THE STARS?

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SUZANNE JACKSON FEATURED IN ARTSY

THE 10 BEST BOOTHS FEATURED AT FRIEZE LOS ANGELES 2022 BY CATHLEEN WAGLEY

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SUZANNE JACKSON AT FRIEZE LA FEATURED IN ARTNEWS

BY MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN

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SUZANNE JACKSON & 2021 FCA BENEFIT FEATURED IN VOGUE

106 ARTISTS UNITE FOR A COMMON CAUSE BY MARLEY MARIUS

December 10, 2021

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SUZANNE JACKSON INCLUDED IN 17TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION TO BENEFIT THE FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS

Curated by Sonia Louise Davis at Greene Naftali Gallery

December 9, 2021

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Suzanne Jackson named 2021 Anonymous Was a Woman Awardee

Anonymous Was a Woman Names 2021 Winners, Expands Award Program by Tessa Solomon

November 9, 2021

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"The Negro Artist's Dilemma" Revisited

Suzanne Jackson in conversation with Lorraine O’Grady and Shinique Smith on the legacy of Romare Bearden’s 1946 essay, for the Gibbes Museum of Art

November 17, 2021

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SUZANNE JACKSON INTERVIEWED BY BARBARA MCCULLOUGH IN BOMB MAGAZINE

Fall 2021

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Suzanne Jackson receives the 2021 Murray Reich Distinguished Artist Award

Administered by New York Foundation for the Arts

September 14, 2021

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You've Come a Long Way, Baby featured in Culture Type

Black Female Artists Who Got Their Start in 1960s and 70s are Focus of Two Group Exhibitions in New York by Victoria L. Valentine

July 31, 2021

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You've Come a Long Way, Baby reviewed in Art in America

ASSEMBLAGE AS MEDIUM AND METHOD: “YOU’VE COME A LONG WAY, BABY: THE SAPPHIRE SHOW” AT ORTUZAR PROJECTS by Sinclair Spratley

July 30, 2021

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You've Come A Long Way, Baby reviewed in Hyperallergic

A Landmark Show of Black Women Artists Gets a Second Life by Alexandra M. Thomas

July 27, 2021

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You've Come A Long Way, Baby Reviewed in The Brooklyn Rail

You've Come A Long Way, Baby: The Sapphire Show by Zoë Hopkins

July 13, 2021

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You've Come A Long Way, Baby highlighted in Hyperallergic

Your Concise New York Art Guide for July 2021 by Dessane Lopez Cassell and Cassie Packard

July 13, 2021

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YOU’VE COME A LONG WAY, BABY REVIEWED IN THE NEW YORKER

by Andrea K. Scott

July 5, 2021

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YOU’VE COME A LONG WAY, BABY FEATURED ON THE NEW YORKER’S CULTURE DESK

Rediscovering a Revolutionary Gallery Show of Black Women’s Art by Andrea K. Scott

July 3, 2021

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You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby featured in The New York Times

A Rare Spotlight on Black Women's Art Still Shines After 51 years By Ted Loos

June 16, 2021

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You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby Previewed in The Financial Times

By Melanie Gerlis

June 10, 2021

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Mary Lovelace O’Neal interviewed by Suzanne Jackson in Bomb magazine

Winter 2020

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SUZANNE JACKSON’S GALLERY 32 FEATURED IN FRIEZE MAGAZINE

“Gallery Garden Garage”: A dossier on the history of domestic exhibition spaces in Los Angeles

January/February 2021

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Suzanne Jackson included in "Winterfest" at the Aspen Art Museum

Curated by Saim Demircan in collaboration with Veit Laurent Kurz

December 18, 2020

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Suzanne Jackson included in "Stars of Everything”

Dial World, Part II: a group exhibition at David Lewis Gallery

October 29, 2020

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Suzanne Jackson in Artsy

The Artsy Vanguard 2020

September 20, 2020

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Suzanne Jackson in T Magazine

THE ARTISTS BY M. H. MILLER, FROM THE 2020 CULTURE ISSUE: WE ARE FAMILY

April 13, 2020

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SUZANNE JACKSON MENTIONED IN ARTNET NEWS

ART COLLECTOR PAMELA JOYNER INTERVIEWED BY NATE FREEMAN

April 20, 2020

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Suzanne Jackson in Art in America

Suzanne Jackson's Ethereal Acrylic Hangings Connect Autobiography and Abstraction by Glenn Adamson

February 17, 2020

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Suzanne Jackson reviewed in The New York Times

What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week by Will Heinrich

January 9, 2020

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Walkthrough of Suzanne Jackson: NEWS! with Ashley James and the artist

January 16, 2020 at 7 pm


 

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SUZANNE JACKSON REVIEWED IN THE NEW YORKER

SUZANNE JACKSON BY JOHANNA FATEMAN

January 1, 2020

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Suzanne Jackson interviewed in Artnet News

'We Had to Do It For Ourselves': Legendary Gallerist and Artist Suzanne Jackson on Why the Art World Has Never Gotten Her Story Right by Melissa Smith

November 20, 2019

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SUZANNE JACKSON INTERVIEWED IN T: THE NEW YORK TIMES STYLE MAGAZINE

An Artist Who Makes Paintings Without a Canvas by Julia Felsenthal

November 19, 2019

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Suzanne Jackson featured in Frieze

The Paradoxes of Gallerist and Artist Suzanne Jackson by Chase Quinn

November 15, 2019

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