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