ARYEL RENÉ  JACKSON

They/Them 





BFA The Cooper Union for the Achievement of Science and Art Video, Photography and Animation 

MFA The University of Texas at Austin Transmedia and Print

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture 2019

Royal College of Art Exchange Program 2018






SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024   Resonant Landscapes: Sci-fi Narratives and Historical Echoes  Ivester Contemporary | Austin, TX | September 2024

2023    What it means: iterations of a welcoming place HOST Series, The Contemporary Austin – Jones Center | Austin, TX | September 28, 2023 – January 2024

2022    Remember This House: A global story Artpace | San Antonio, TX | March–May 2022 

             A Welcoming Place Women & Their Work |Austin, TX | January–March 2022 

2021    A way back home IDEA Lab, UT Austin’s Black Studies|Austin, TX |October 2021–March 2022 

            We are the [Hackers], Baby, [Hackers] are we in collaboration with Michael J. Love Big Medium | Austin, TX | October 2021–January 2022

            Descendance Jacob Lawrence Gallery | Seattle, WA | January-February 2021

            Doubt & Imagination Dallas Contemporary |Dallas, TX | January-March 2021 

2019    Video Series New Museum |New York, NY | Sept – Dec 2019

2017    The Origin of the Blues  RISD Museum | Providence, RI | July 2017 – Feb 2018

             The Blues Data Crop  Wave Hill | Bronx NY  | Sept – Oct 2016

            Focus: Ariel Jackson The Studio Museum in Harlem | Harlem NY |   March – June 2016







TWO PERSON EXHIBITION


2022     Woven Land Ruiz Healy Art Gallery |Lina Puerta |New York, NY | July - September 2022






RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2023     The Buoyancy Show Sam Fox School and Des Lee Gallery | St. Louis, MO | April 22, 

2023   This Place We Once Remembered Wave Hill | Bronx, NY | April – August 2023

2022   Tending Land Digital Arts Resource Centre (Formerly SAW Video) | Ottawa, ON, Canada | March - August 2022

2021    Screen House Baltimore Museum of Art | Baltimore, MA | August 2021

              A New Landscape, A Possible Horizon 2021 Texas Biennial Ruby City | Austin, TX | August 2021–January 2022 

              Reimagining Monuments University of South Florida | Tampa, FL | Jan 2021 – March 2021

2020    Dear Future... University of Northern Colorado | Greeley, CO | August - December 2020

              Another Country Terrault Gallery | Baltimore, MD | March - April 2020

2019    Make America What America Must Become Contemporary Art Center | New Orleans, LA |Sept 2019 – Jan 2020  

            In Practice : Other Objects SculptureCenter | New York, NY | Jan – March 2019








RECENT RESIDENCIES | FELLOWSHIPS | AWARDS | GRANTS


2025    International Studio & Curatorial Program | Brooklyn, NYC | March – May

2024    Artist-in-Residence Program Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts | Omaha, Nebraska | September – November

2023    Artprize | Grand Rapids 

2022    International Artist-in-Residence Artpace | San Antonio | 2021-22

              Tito’s Prize Big Medium | Austin, TX | 2021-22

2020    Jacob Lawrence Legacy Residency | Jacob Lawrence Gallery |Seattle, WA

              Black Art Matters ATX Grant | Austin Creative Alliance | Austin, TX 

              Six Square Support Grant Six Square | Austin, TX 

              Black Spatial Relics Micro Grant Black Spatial Relics | Philadelphia, PA 

2019    Momentary AIR Program Crystal Bridges Museum | Bentonville, AR | September - October

              IdeasCity New Orleans Residency New Museum | New Orleans, LA | April 






RECENT SCREENINGS | PERFORMANCES 


2023    (RHY)PISTEMOLOGY (OR, TO KNOW THROUGH THE RHYTHM) Ground Floor Theatre /Fusebox Festival | Austin, TX |April 12-13th

2022    An Evening with Ariel René Jackson Museum of Modern Art |New York, NY | May 9th |Screening & Panel

2020    Bentonville Forecast  Crystal Bridges Museum /The Momentary| Bentonville, AR | June 19th | Screening & Panel





SELECT PRESS | PUBLICATION


2022       Do Black and Hispanic People Feel Welcome in Austin? by Michael Agresta | Texas Monthly     

2021       Ariel René Jackson and Michael J. Love imagine a Black futurist family archive  by Kaila Schedeen | Sightlines 

                Justice Delayed: “Make America What America Must Become” at the CAC New Orleans by Kristina Kay Robinson Art in America’s ARTnews | Review 

                Representation, ‘the blues,’ and a bit of theory by Hunter Bos | The Daily | Seattle Washington University

                Ariel René Jackson on the ‘Detective Work’ of telling truthful stories by Lise Ragbir Hyperallergic | Interview

2020       A View From the Easel During Times of Quarantine by Alisa Wouk Almino | Article 

                A Q&A with Ariel René Jackson The Momentary | Interview 

2019       ‘First Look: Ariel René Jackson’ Art in America | Magazine 

2018       Original Language Catalog by Natasha Marie Llorens feat. ‘Cogitations on Surviving Language’ by Ladi’Sasha Jones | CUE Art Foundation | Catalog | September 

                ‘Monuments for a New Era’ New York Times | Art Opinion