1677 Lawrence Ave.
Memphis Tn., 38112
901-728-6626
jjacksn2@memphis.edu
education
1977, B.F.A., Painting, Memphis College of Art
1980, M.F.A., Painting, Cornell University
1973-5, Art, Rhodes College
1974, Painting, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture
HONORS/AWARDS
Tchg. Asst. Fellowship, Painting, Cornell University, 1979-80
AR. Arts Council Mural Grant, Ceramics, Arkansas Arts Council, 1981
Artist in Residence Grant, Painting/Art History, Arkansas Arts Council, 1980-83
Arts Alliance Grant, Painting, Mid American Arts Alliance, 1982
Artists Grant, Painting, Artists Space, 1987
Teaching Fellowship, General Ed. (Art), Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1991
NEA Visual Artists Fellowship, Painting, Arts Midwest/NEA, 1992
Teaching Fellowship, General Ed. (Art), Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1994
Sabbatical Leave, Painting/Art History, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1997
Award Honorarium and Exhibit, Painting, First Tennessee Bank, Urban Art Commission, 2004
Rochefort-En-Terre painting Residency, Brittany, France, Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, 2005
Tennessee Arts Commission, Individual Artists Painting Fellowship, Tennessee Arts Commission, 2005-6
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
R. Duane Reed Gallery
7513 Forsyth
St. Louis, MO. 63105
314-862-2333
R. Duane Reed Gallery
529 West 20th Street
New York City, New York, 10011
212-462-2600
web: RDuaneReedGallery.com
WORK IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Mitchell Museum at Cedarhurst, Mt. Vernon, IL
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Stevens Inc., Little Rock, AR
Bucknell University, Bucknell, Pa
American General Finance Co., Evansville, IN
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tn.
Millikin University, Decatur, IL.
Bristol Myers Squibb Co., Evansville, IN
Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana
EXHIBITIONS
1977 Artist’s Biennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA., 1977
One Person Exhibit, Etcetera Gallery, Memphis, TN., 1977
Finger Lakes Exhibit, Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY, 1980
Group Exhibit, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1980
23rd Annual Delta Exhibit, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR., 1980
Memphis: Six Artists,@ Group Exhibit, Memphis Brooks Art Gallery, Memphis, TN., 1981
24th Annual Delta Exhibit, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR., 1981
One Person Exhibit, Southeast Arkansas Art Center, Pine Bluff, AR., 1981
One Person Exhibit, Ellis Library Gallery, Arkansas State University, 1981
Group Exhibit, Nornberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO., 1982
“Visions ‘83”, Traveling Exhibit funded by the Mid-America Arts Alliance, Oct. 82-Dec. 83
Three Person Invitational, Clough Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN., 1983
Group Exhibit, ArtSpace, Buffalo Arts Commission Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1983
New Dimensions, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1984
Albright-Knox Western New York Invitational, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1984
Group Exhibit, P.P.O.W., New York City, NY, 1984
Group Exhibit at “The Saint,” New York City, NY, 1984
1984 Artists Biennial, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY, 1984
Indigestion, Group Exhibit, P.P.O.W., New York City, NY, 1984
East Village At the Centre, Group Exhibit, Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal, Canada, 1985
Albright-Knox Western New York Invitational, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1985
Out of Context, Group Exhibit, Piccadilly Gallery, London, England, 1985
Group Exhibit at “The Palladium”, New York City, NY, 1985
One Person Exhibit, P.P.O.W., New York City, NY, 1985
New Work, Group Exhibit, P.P.O.W., New York City, NY, 1985
“The Best and The Brightest From the East Village and Soho”, Moosart Gallery, Miami, FL, 1986
“Art of the East Village”, Group Exhibit, Lafayette College, Easton, PA., 1986
Zurich Art Fair, Zuspa-Hallen, Zurich, Switzerland, 1986
Albright-Knox “Western New York Invitational”, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1986
Gallery Artists, P.P.O.W., New York City, NY, 1986
Red Tape Benefit Exhibit, E.M. Donahue Gallery, New York City, NY, 1987
“Jed Jackson: Recent Work”, one person exhibit, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR., 1987
“The Wayward Muse”, 150 Years of Painting in Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1987
One Person Exhibit, P.P.O.W., New York City, NY, 1987
One Person Exhibit, Real Artways, Hartford, CT, 1987
Group Exhibit, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 1987
Three Artist show with Nancy Dwyer and Steve Miller Nina, Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1987
“Annual Juried ‘88”, Selected by Irving Sandler, Queens Museum, Flushing, NY, 1988
“Situations”, Group Exhibition, General Electric, Organized by the Art Advisory Service for Corporate Members, “Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY, 1988
“Homecoming”, New York to Memphis, Group Exhibition, Alice Bingham Gallery, Memphis, TN., 1988
“Twenty in New York”, Group Exhibition, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1988
Workspace ‘89: An Exhibition of Artist’s Working in Queens,@ Jamaica Arts Center, Jamaica, NY, 1989
“Paintings on the Theme of Arcadia” Solo Exhibition, P.P.O.W., New York City, NY, 1989
Art Today, Video Commentary on “Paintings on the Theme of Arcadia” by Robert Pincus-Witten, Vol. 1, No. 2., 1990
“Salon 1990, The Human Figure in New Painting and Sculpture” The New York Academy of Art, New York City, NY, 1990
“Small Paintings”, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 1990
“Delta Exhibit”, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR., 1990
Group Show, P.P.O.W., New York City, NY, 1991
“Realism Today” Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences, Evansville, IN, Purchase Award, 1991
“Southern Illinois Artist’s Biennial”, Mitchell Museum at Cedarhurst, Mount Vernon, IL, Painting award, 1991
“Delta Exhibit”, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR., 1991
“Annual Bi-States Exhibit”, Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, IA, 1991
Three Person Invitational, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA., 1992
Biennial SIU Faculty Exhibit, Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, IN, 1992
Chicago International Art Exposition, MacCormack Place, Chicago, IL., 1992
Solo Exhibition, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL., 1992
“Southern Illinois Artist Biennial”, Mitchell Museum at Cedarhurst, Mount Vernon, IL, 1993
“Delta Exhibit”, Curated by Donald Kuspit, Honorable Mention, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR, 1993
“Selections from the Gallery Collection, Elliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis, MO, 1993
“Arkansas Artists”, Russell Senate Office Building, Washington D.C., Organized by the Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, scheduled through 1995, 1993
“Realism Today”, Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences, Evansville, IN, Purchase Award, 1993
Two Person Exhibit, Jonesboro Sun Gallery, Jonesboro, AR., 1993
SIU-Carbondale Faculty Exhibit, Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences, Evansville, IN, 1994
“Introductions”, R. Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO., 1994
“Drawing Together”, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1994
“Friendly Encounters”, R. Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO., 1994
“Jed Jackson, A New Vision”, Solo Exhibition, Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences, Evansville, IN, Dec. ’94 Jan., 1994
Solo Exhibition, Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO., April, 1995
“Southern Illinois Artist Biennial”, Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, IL, Purchase Award, 1995
Solo Exhibition, Kirkland Fine Arts Center, Millikin University, Decatur, IL. Purchase award, 1995
Solo Exhibition, Quick Fine Arts Center, St. Bonaventure University, St. Bonaventure, NY, 1995
“Delta Exhibit”, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR., 1995
“39th Delta Exhibit”, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR., October - Purchase Award, 1996
“Homecoming, 60th Anniversary Alumni Exhibit”, Memphis College of Art, September, 1996
“Jed Jackson - Valia Oliver”, Marshall Arts, Memphis, TN., March, 1996
“Jed Jackson”, Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO., Feb. 21, 1997
Exhibit at FGM Architecture Offices, Mt. Vernon, IL. ongoing. 1997-present
“41st Delta Exhibit”, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR., Sept. - Oct., 1998
“The Curators Collect” - Included in Collection of Bonnie A. Speed, John A. Logan College, Carterville, IL, June, 1998
Print Commission, Mitchell Museum at Cedarhurst, Mt. Vernon, IL., 1998
“Jed Jackson” Solo Show, Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO, June 18 - August 28, 1999
“Patrimony Corrupted”, Wright State University Galleries, Dayton, OH, Jan., 1999
Solo Show, The Gallery at Innsbrook, Wright City, MO. (Adam Aronson, Director) August, 1999
“Jed Jackson/ Ed Rainey” Second Floor Contemporary, Memphis, Tenn. Feb-March, 2000
“Art-Palm Beach” Modern and Contemporary Art Fair, International Pavillion of the Palm Beaches, Palm Beach, Florida, March 2000
“Do-It”, Memphis Brooks Museum, Memphis, Tn., April-May 2000
Invited Artist, Arts in the Park, Botanic Garden, Memphis, Tn. Oct. 2000
Jed Jackson/Beth Edwards, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Sept-Oct 2000
Solo Exhibition, R. Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, Mo.. Sept. 14-Oct. 13, 2001
“Side by Side” Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tn. March-June 2002
“A Century of Progress: One Hundred Years of Painting in Tennessee” Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville Tenn., July, 2002. Traveling to five museum sites in Tennessee and Georgia including the Knoxville Museum of Art, thru 2003
“Current Memphis”, Shores Space, Amsterdam Netherlands, Oct-Nov. 2002
“Memphis Current”, Kunstruimte NP40, Amsterdam Netherlands, Oct.-Nov. 2002
“Invisible Archives”, Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York, Sept. 2002
“Recent Acquisitions” Memphis Brooks Museum of Art 2002
Jackson/ Hyde, Bleuhaus Gallery, Memphis Tn. Oct. 2003
“Art of Tennessee”, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville Tn. Sept. 2003
Jed Jackson, “Solo Show”, Duane Reed Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Dec. 2003
“Flowers and Art”, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tn. April 2004
“Art Forum” Year long exhibit at FEDEX Forum, Memphis, Tenn. Sponsored by First Tennessee Bank. Administered by the Urban Art Commission, Memphis, September 2004-September 2005
“Jed Jackson, C.E.O.” Solo Exhibit, Sarratt Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. Nov. 2-Dec. 2, 2004
Klots Artists in Residence Exhibit, Rochefort-en- Terre Chateau, Rochefort –en-Terre, Brittany, France, May –November 2005
Last show, Gallery NP40, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 2005
BOOKS PUBLISHED
Art: A Comparative Study, Kendall Hunt Pub. Co., Dubuque, Iowa, 1993, 2nd Edition published 1999.
ARTICLES CITING WORK: REVIEWS OF EXHIBITS
Richard Knowles, “Double Daring” City of Memphis Magazine, May, p. 41., 1977
Cover Illustration, “Suburban Dance, 1981” Arkansas Times, June, 1981
Donald La Badie, “The Artist as Social Critic” the Memphis Commercial Appeal, Fanfare, May 16, p. 18-19, 1982
Nancy N. Rice, “New Harvest...First Gathering” New Art Examiner, Dec. p. 21., 1982
Mid-America Arts Alliance, “Visions ‘83”, Exhibition Catalogue, p. 51, 1983
Steven Hager, “A Young Gallery Gains Ground”, Vanity Fair, July, p. 84, 1985
Albright Knox Art Gallery, “In Western New York, 1985”, Exhibition Catalogue, p. 16, 1985
“Out of Context” Exhibition Catalogue, P.P.O.W., Piccadilly Gallery, London, England, June 25-July 19, 1985
George Sax, “Buffalo Influences Color, New Works of Jed Jackson”, Buffalo News, September 15, Sect. E, p. 4, 1985
Edmund Cardoni, “Embracing the Humanoid, The Figurative Painting of Jed Jackson,”,Buffalo Arts Review, Summer, p. 1-12, 1985
Glenn O’Brien, “Jed Jackson, P.P.O.W.” , Artforum, December , p. 92, 1985
“The Cracked Mirror”, Redtape, No. 6, New York, reproduction, 1986
Barry Schwabsky, ”Jed Jackson”, Arts Magazine, Jan. p. 26, 1986
Leslie Judd Ahlander, “Youthful Exuberance Lights Local Galleries”, Miami News, Jan. 10, 1986
Mary Ann Busby, “East Village Artist talks about Work, Fayetteville Native Exhibits, lectures at Arkansas Art Center”, Arkansas Gazette, Weekend, March 27, p. 12., 1987
Exhibition Listing with full page reproduction, New York Native, May 25, p. 30-31, 1987
Paintings illustrated in ”Cincin, A Downtown Restaurant by Julius S. Baum”, Interior Design, Jan. P. 220-221, 1987
Klaus Ottman, “Mannerism and Anti-Mannerism”, Flashart, Milan, Italy, Dec. - Juan. P. 64-65, color reproduction, 1987
Arkansas Art Center, “Jed Jackson, Recent Work”, Exhibition Catalogue, 1987
Albright Knox Art Gallery, “The Wayward Muse”, Exhibition Catalogue, color reproduction, p. 96, 1987
Dan Morris, “Jed Jackson’s Work Purposely Disturbing”, Arkansas Gazette, March 27, 1987
Helen Cullinan, “New York Artists in a Trade, The Plain Dealer, Friday!” Cleveland, OH, May 29, p. 24, 1987
Spaces/Hallwalls Artists Exchange Exhibition Catalogue, Cleveland, Buffalo, reproduction, 1987
Richard Huntington, “Varied Works Make Appealing mix in Freudenheim Exhibition”, Buffalo Evening News, Gusto, Sept. 18, p. 20, 1987
Matt Damsker, “Bizarre Exhibit at Real Art Ways Brims with Complex, Perverse Humor”, The Hartford Courant, Nov. 29, p. G6, 1987
Exhibits listing, “Modern Morality Tales”, The Hartford Courant, Hartford, CT, Nov. 19, p. 28, 1987
Edmund Cardoni, Blatant Artifice 2/3: An Anthology of Short Fiction by Visiting Writers, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, p. 28, 1987
Margaret Moorman, “A Multitude of Styles of Queens Museum Show”, Newsday, New York, Jan. 8, p. 21, 1988
Queens Museum, “Annual Juried Exhibition ‘88”, Irving Sandler, Curator, Exhibition Catalogue with reproduction, 1988
Jude Schwendenwein, Art New England, Real Artways Exhibition Review, Hartford, CT, March, 1988
Frederick Koeppel, “Exhibit Proves Memphis-Trained Artists Excell ”, Memphis, October, 30, 1988
Edwin Howard, “Jed Jackson, Bill Elrod Stand Out in Bingham Show”, Memphis Business Journal, Oct. 31 - Nov. 4, 1988
Margaret Moorman, “Making Art”, Newsday, New York, Nov. 18, p. 21, 1988
Cory Dugan, “New York/Memphis”, Number, Vol. 2, No. 3 Winger, 1989
Robert Pincus-Witten, “Jed Jackson”, Review of December Show at P.P.O.W., New York, Art Today, Video production, Vol. 1, No. 2 (New York, Arts Video News Service), 1990
“Salon 1990”, Exhibition Catalogue, New York Academy of Art, 1990
Alan Artner, Review of One Person Exhibit at the Contemporary Arts Workshop, Chicago Tribune, June 5, Sect. 7, p. 54. 1992
“High Visibility”, 1992 Arts Midwest/NEA, Fellowship Recipients Catalogue, color reproduction, 1992
Jane Fullerton, “ Pryor’s Office Displays Work of 27 Arkansas Artist,s” in the column “Washington Journal” of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Oct. 22, 1993
Delta Winners on Display at Arts Center, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Dec. 7, p. 1E, color reproduction, 1993
Review of Group Show at R. Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 26, 1994
Anderson, Roberta, “Closer Look: Jed Jackson” Memphis College of Art Alumni Newsletter, Spring 1994
Listing in “Index of Exhibiting and Gallery Artists”, Art 1994 Chicago, The New Navy Pier Show, Exhibition Catalogue, (Thomas Blackman and Associates, Chicago) p. 33, 318., 1994
Review of Duane Reed Show, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sept. 15, 1994
Milburg, Steve ”The State of the Arts in Delta”, Southern Living, Oct. P. 4ar, color reproduction, 1994
Sauls, Susan, “Jed Jackson’s Vibrant Witty paintings to be Focus of Contemporary Gallery Exhibit”, Copia, Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, IN, Nov/Dec. 1994.
Duffy, Robert N., “Jackson’s Dreamscapes”, St. Louis Post Dispatch, April 27, 1995, p. 4
“Homecoming Exhibition”, 60th Anniversary Exhibition Poster and Catalogue - Memphis College of Art, Photo Reproduction, Sept. 1996
“Delta on Display”, Arkansas Gazette Democrat, Sunday, Oct. 20, 1996, p. 5D. Photo reproduction, 1996
“Jed Jackson - Valia Oliver”, Review of Exhibit at Marshall Arts, Number, No. 30, Independent Quarterly of the Visual Arts, Fall 1996, p. 35.
“ Delta Exhibit Catalogue”, Arkansas Art Center, Oct. 1996- Reproduction - purchase award, 1996
“One From the Art” The Memphis Flyer, Memphis, TN., March 14-20, 1996, p. 21, 1996
“Best Bets”, The Commercial Appeal - Playbook, Memphis, TN., Friday, March 8, 1996, section E, p. 2,
“Museum Purchases Jed Jackson painting”, Cedarhurst Quarterly, Jan/Feb. 1997, Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, IL, 1997
Robert W. Duffy, “Thrice Tantalized”, St. Louis Post Dispatch, St. Louis, MO, March 6, “Get Out”, p. 26, 1997
Southern Illinois Artists Open Competition and Exhibition, August, Cover illustration, 1997
“Patrimony Corrupted” Exhibition catalogue, color illustration, Wright State University Gallery, Dayton, OH., 1999
“News of Newcomers” in A.M. Edition, publication of Art Museum of University of Memphis. Summer 1999, p. 5
“Realism With A Twist”, in ”Get Out“ St. Louis Post Dispatch, Thursday, June 24, 1999. P. 24.
“It’s a Man’s World - In Humor - Filled Art Show“, Eventure, Middletown, Ohio, Jan. 8, 1999, p. 12
“WSU Exhibit Explores Men as Anti-Heros”, Dayton Daily News, Jan. 3, 1999, p. 6c
Baker, Devin, “Up to Speed”, St. Louis Magazine, summer 2000, p. 28
“Jed Jackson and Beth Edwards”, AMUM, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, fall 2000, p.1
Hall, David “Wry and Dry” Jed Jackson and Beth Edwards at University of Memphis Art Museum, Memphis Flyer, sept 13, 2000, p. 37
“Beth Edwards/Jed Jackson” Stephen Sanders, review of exhibition at the University of Memphis Art Museum, Number, An Independent Journal of the Arts, no. 39, vol. XV, no. 1, 2001
“Dutch Treat”, The University of Memphis Magazine, Winter 2003, p. 6, color reproduction
“Side By Side”, Exhibition Catalogue, (Memphis Brooks Museum of Art), 2002, p.32-33
Burch Peggy, “Picks of the Week”, Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tn., March 24, 2002. G1
Burch, Peggy, “Side by Side, Artist’s breathe new life into Brooks Standards” Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tn., March 31, 2002. G1
Hicks, Ed, “Copy Cats: Unique Idea at Brooks Showcases Local Artists’ Interpretations” Memphis Business Journal, March 29-April 4, 2002 p. 37-8
Hall, David, “Shoulder to Shoulder”, Memphis Flyer, April 10, 2002,
Walker, Celia, “A Century of Progress, Twentieth Century Painting in Tennessee” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Vol. LXI, No. 1, Spring 2002, p. 65-66
Hamilton, Jeanne, “Area Artist’s ‘Traditionalize Modern’ ”, Commercial Appeal, Memphis Tennessee, Sunday, June 23, 2002, G5
Walker, Celia, “A Century of Progress, Twentieth Century Painting in Tennessee”, American Art Review, July/August, 2002, Vol. 14 no. 4, pp. 144-151
Bostick, Alan,“Painting Tennesee”, The Tennessean, 7July, 2002, Life section; 1, 3, 14
Outlaw, Adrienne, “100 Years of Tennessee Painting, ” Nashville Public Radio, July 12, 2002
Art of Tennessee, exhibition catalogue, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, 2003, reproduction, p.
Best Bets, Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tn. Friday, October 24, 2003, p. G3, Illustration
Best Bets, Memphis Business Journal, Memphis, Tn. April 2-8, 2004, City Life, p. 37, Illustration
Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tn. April 20. 2003, p. C1
Sarratt Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Annual Exhibits Brochure, Cover reproduction, “Jed Jackson, C.E.O.” p. September 2004
“Critic’s Picks”, Nashville Scene, Nov. 4, 2004, p. 40
”C.E.O of the Underworld, Works of Memphis Artist Jed Jackson explore the Seamy Side of Life “, “Life” section , Nashville Tennessean, November 7, 2004, p.21
Maddox, David, “ Life’s Pall on Seperate Panels” Nashville Scene, Nov. 18, 2004, p. 79
Mike Lollar“Elvis at 70”, Illustration for article in Memphis Commercial Appeal, January 9, 2005, section M, p. 1