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SUZANNE JACKSON 15 west 41st Street, Savannah, Georgia 31401-8984

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Suzanne Jackson’s Solo exhibitions include 2015, Temporary Agency Gallery, Ridgewood, NY; 2013, “Birdmusic”, Indigo Sky Gallery, Savannah, GA.; 2010, Danville Museum of Art, Danville,VA.; 2009, Phillip J. Hamilton Gallery, Savannah State University, Savannah, GA.; Ferst Fine Arts Center, Richards and Westbrook Galleries, Atlanta, GA.; Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg, West VA.; 2008, The Albany Museum, Albany GA; The Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA.; Berry College, Mount Berry, GA; 2007, Carnegie Art Museum, CA. “Suzanne Jackson, Monoprints: The Colored Garden”; Group invitations include: “The Shape of Things to Come: African American Fine Art”, Swann Aucion Galleries, NY; “NOW DIG THIS! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980”, 2013-2014 Williams College Art Museum, MA; MoMA P.S.1, NY; 2011-12 Pacific Standard Time: Art - L.A. 1945 to 1980: “NOW DIG THIS! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980”, Hammer Museum, and “Places of Validation: Art and Progression, CAAM: 2010,“Why Go Anywhere Else?”, touring Montenegro and Serbia national museums; Normal Editions Workshop Collaborative; Prints1976-2008”, Lancaster Museum, PA.; 2007, “Recent American Watercolors”, The Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA.; “We Too Are Book Artists”, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN; “30-Year Retrospective-Normal Editions Workshop, Normal Illinois. Numerous publications, include works and biography; Spring/ 2012 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art; “EYEMINDED”, Kellie Jones; NY.; L.A.Object and David Hammons Body Prints”, Tilton Gallery, New York; “L.A. Rising: SoCal Artists Before 1980”, Lyn Kienholz, CIAF; “Marks From the Matrix”, Normal Editions Workshop, University of Illinois; “ Prague Biennal I catalogue; “ The Internationale Biennale fur Bildende Kunst- 2002, Austria”; “The World Festival of Art on Paper”, Internet Gallery, Ljubjliana, Slovenia, 2002; "Who's Who in American Art", 1976 present; “2000 Outstanding Artists and Designers of the 20th Century"; “African American Artists of Los Angeles: Suzanne Jackson", University of California at Los Angeles Oral History Program, 1998; St. James Guide to Black Artists, St. James Press / Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1997; "Gumbo YaYa, Anthology of African American Women Artists," Midmarch Arts Press, 1995; "1 Hear A Symphony, African Americans Celebrate Love," Anchor Books, 1994; As cover story in "Black Art, an International Quarterly," Vol. III. No. 4, 1981; "Contributions of Women Art," Dillon Press, 1977; "Contextures”, Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York, 1977; and "Black Artists On Art," Vol. II, Ward Ritchie Press, 1970. Since 2006, Jackson’s bibliography and works are included in Boston Museum School’s African American Visual Arts Database. Jackson has been awarded 2013 exhibition selections by Ambassador Deborah Malac, Monrovia , Liberia and 2010 Ambassador Mary Warlick, Belgrade, Serbia , Art in Embassies Program, U.S. State Department; SCAD Presidential Fellowships, 2007-Painting and 2003- Printmaking and faculty Artist-in-Residence, 2002 SCAD Painting Studio Workspace in New York City. She was the recipient of two Idyllwild Associates Fellowships for Etching/Bookmaking and Dance at the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts in 1982 and 1983. In 1981, Jackson was nominated for the first National Awards in the Visual Arts, was Artist in Residence at Savannah College of Art and Design and at the Gibbs Museum and Art Gallery, Charleston, S.C. During 1978 and 1979, she completed two large scale outdoor murals in Los Angeles as part of the Brockman Gallery Productions CETA Public Art Program. In 1977, two limited edition lithographs were produced while in residence at the Normal Editions Workshop, Center for the Visual Arts at Illinois State University at Normal.

Among many museum and galleries, Jackson’s work has been exhibited at the Hammer Museum; MoMAPS1; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery; John Slade Ely House, New Haven Connecticut; California African American Museum, Los Angeles; York W. Bailey Museum, Penn Center, St. Helena Island, SC.; Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Art Rental Gallery; Laguna Beach Museum of Art; Fashion Moda; Just Above Midtown Galleries; the Studio Museum in Harlem; the New York Cultural Center; The Oakland Museum; California African American Museum; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection, Palm Spring Desert Museum; Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; the Miami Dade Public Library and the Library for Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, New York. Jackson's work can be found in public and private collections internationally, and throughout the nation including the Carnegie At Museum, Oxnard, CA.;Indianapolis Museum of Art; The Rumsey Band of Wintun Indians, Rumsey Indian Rancheria, Brooks, CA.; Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building, New York; California African American Museum, Los Angeles; Palm Springs Desert Museum; Savannah College of Art and Design Jen Library; and the Daniel, Mann, Johnson and Mendenhall Corporation, Los Angeles.

Born 1944 in Saint Louis, Missouri; Jackson graduated 1961 Monroe High School, Fairbanks, Alaska; 1966 B.A. Art, San Francisco State (College) University; 1990; M.F.A. Yale University, School of Drama, Design.



SUZANNE JACKSON

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Temporary Agency Gallery, Ridgewood, NY.
2013 “Birdmusic”, Indigo Sky Gallery, Savannah, GA.
2012 local 11 Ten, Savannah, GA.
2010 Danville Museum of Fine Art and History, Danville, VA.
2009 Phillip J. Hamilton Gallery, Savannah State University, Savannah, GA.

Robert Ferst Center for the Arts, Richards and Westbrook Galleries, Georgia Tech University,

Atlanta, GA.

Parkersburg Art Center, South and Esbenshade Galleries, Parkersburg, WV.


2008 Berry College, Mount Berry, GA

Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA.

Peninsula Fine Arts Center, “Suzanne Jackson: Abstraction Today”, Newport News, VA.
2007 Carnegie Art Museum, “Suzanne Jackson, Monoprints: The Colored Garden”, Oxnard , California
2005 “Suzanne Jackson: Paintings and Monoprints”, Off The Wall Gallery at The Marshall House,

Savannah, GA.

“Monoprints and Drawings”, Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah, GA.
2002 La Minime’s Galerie, La Rochelle, France
2001 Café Metropole, Savannah, GA.
1999 Galerie Lumiere, Savannah, Georgia
1986 Black Like Me Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1985 Sargent Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1984 Mitzi Landau 20th Century Art, Los Angeles, CA.

Ingber Gallery, New York, N.Y.


1983 Multi Cultural Art Institute, San Diego, CA.
1981-1982 California State Office Building, Los Angeles, CA.
1981 Exhibit A Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, GA. 1981
1979 Robert’s, Venice CA.
1972, 1974, 1976, 1978 Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
1972 Fresno Art Center, Fresno CA.

Pioneer Museum-Haggin Art Galleries, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA.

San Jose Art League, San Jose, CA.
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2013-14 Williams College Art Museum, “Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980, MA.

2012 MoMA P.S.1 “Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980, Long Island, NY

2011 Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, Getty Foundation

“Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA.

“Places of Validation, Art and Progression”, exhibition; and The Mural Conservancy Virtual Gallery,

(CAAM) California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA.

2010 “Why Go Anywhere Else?” MONTENEGRO: Petovic Castle, Center of Contemporary Art,

Podgonica; Modern Art Galley, Budva: Gallery Homena, Kotor: Gallery Josip Bepo Benkovic,

Herceg-Novi: SERBIA: O3one gallery, Belgrade; Cvijeta Zuzonic Pavilion of the National

Association of Artists, Belgrade; Museum of Contemporary Art, Novi Sad.

Lancaster Museum of Art, “Normal Editions Workshop Collaborative: Prints, 1976-2008“

Lancaster, PA.

2008 Albany Museum of Art, Main Gallery, Suzanne Jackson and Peter Hoss, Albany, Georgia

2007 “Recent American Watercolors”, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA.

2005 Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, “PATHWAYS AND REACTION, PARTS TWO and THREE,

African American Artists in Los Angeles, A Survey Exhibition”

California African American Museum,

“PATHWAYS, PART TWO, African American Artists in Los Angeles, A Survey Exhibition”

2002 York W. Bailey Museum, Penn Center, St. Helena Island, SC.

2000 John Slade Ely House, Museum Galleries, “The Right to Be”, Sankofa Cultural Arts Festival,

New Haven, CT.

1994 Ebony Museum, "My Lord What A Mornin’,” Oakland, CA.

1985 Museum of African American History and Culture, Los Angeles, CA.

1981, 1989 California Museum of African American Art, Los Angeles, CA.

1981-1982 "Forever Free: Works by African American Women Artists,” Center for the Visual Arts,

University of Illinois at Normal, origin; traveling to: Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NB.

Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL.; Gibbs Art Museum, Charleston, S.C.;

Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.; Indianapolis Museum of Art,

Indianapolis, IN.

1977 Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Studio Museum in Harlem, “Eleven From California”. New York, N.Y.

1975, 1978 Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.



Center for the Visual Arts, University of Illinois, Normal IL.

Pioneer Museum, Haggin Art Galleries, "Suzanne Jackson /William Pajaud /Charles White,"

University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA.,

1974, 1976 E.B. Crocker Gallery, Sacramento, CA.

1974 University of Nevada at Las Vegas Art Museum, "Ben Hazard / Suzanne Jackson,"

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, "Directions in Afro American Art," Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.

1973 New York Cultural Center, "Blacks: U.S.A.: Now," New York, N.Y.

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA.

De Sasset Art Museum and Gallery, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA.

1972, 1974 San Diego Museum of Art, Rental Gallery

1972, 1973 San Francisco Museum of Art, Rental Gallery

1971-1972 Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA.

1971 Oakland Museum of Art, "Black Untitled II/Dimensions of the Figure", Oakland, CA.

1970 Palm Springs Desert Museum, Ankrum Gallery / Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection, Palm Springs, CA.

1968 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA.,

SELECTED GROUP INVITATIONS
2015 “Black SoCal: Art and Practice in an Evolving Landscape”, 2015 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

2014 “The Shape of Things To Come: African American Fine Art”, Swann Auction Galleries, New York, NY.

“Creating A legacy“. Black Heritage Festival, King Tisdell Foundation-Beach Institute, Savannah, GA.

“Creations By Ebony”, Portfolio Gallery / Edwardsville Art Center, Saint Louis, MO.

2012 “EYE-to-EYE: The Making of We”, Savannah/ Chatham Advocacy, Indigo Sky Gallery, Savannah, GA.

“From a Whisper to a Roar”, Avenue 50 Studio, Women’s Caucus for Art, Los Angeles, CA.

“Journeys, Passages and Transitions”, Black Heritage Festival -The Beach Institute, Savannah, GA.

2011 “FORM & CONTEXT”, Phillip J. Hamilton Gallery, Savannah State University, Savannah, GA.

2010 - 2011 “CFAC & Friends- Small Works Exhibition”, Indigo Sky Community Gallery, Savannah, GA.

“16th Annual Telfair Museum Art Fair”, Savannah, GA.

“SPILL”, Creative Force Artist Collective, Indigo Sky Community Gallery, Savannah, GA.

“5 x 7” Art Show”, Hospice Savannah; Jepson Art Center, Trustees Board Gallery, Savannah, GA.

2009 “Gallery 32 and Its Circle”, curated by Carolyn Peter and Damon Willits, Laband Art Gallery,

Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA.

2007 “Recent American Watercolors”, curated by Michael Preble, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA.

“We Too, Make Books”, curated by Amos Paul Kennedy, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN.

30-Year Retrospective: Normal Editions Workshop”, University of Illinois, Normal, IL

“protectingflatsurfacesfrom”, Painting Faculty, Gallery 1600, Savannah College of Art and Design,

Atlanta, GA

2003 “NINE”, Painting Faculty, Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA.

“Thurgood Marshall Postal Commemorative Exhibition”, Works by Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden,

Dr. Virginia Jackson-Kiah, Suzanne Jackson, Sam Gilliam, RED Gallery, Savannah, GA.

“ARS FEMINA 2 – International Women Artist’s Art Annual, Art Addiction Internet Gallery,

Stockholm, Sweden

2002 “International Biennale for Contemporary Art -2002”, Die Heft, Knappenberg - Huttenberg, Austria

“New Artists, New Art”, The Gallery in Cork Street, London UK

“ New Artists New Art”, The Art Store, Dublin, Ireland


    1. “World Festival of Art on Paper, Christmas Exhibition”, Slovenijales Gallery, Ljubljiana, Slovenia

“State Capitol Program”, Office of the Governor, Atlanta, Georgia

2001 “A lifetime of Achievement: Reflections of Jane Fonda”, Savannah Film and Video Festival,

Orleans Hall, Savannah, GA

“EARTH DAUGHTERS”, Charles Street Gallery, Beaufort, SC.

“6>10, Women – Art”, Gallery 10, Hilton Head Island, SC.

America Oh Yes! Gallery, “Chicago Art Expo”, Washington, D.C. & Hilton Head, SC.

2000 “Reflecting on the Past to Illuminate the Future”, Savannah State University, Savannah, GA.

2001, 2000, 1998 "Selections," SCAD at Broome Street Gallery, New York, NY.

1998 “China Art Exposition, Beijing, China

1998, 1996, “Low Country Exhibition”, Exhibit A Gallery, Savannah, GA.

1998, 1997 Savannah College of Art and Design, “Small Works”

1998, 1997, 1996, Savannah College of Art and Design, Faculty Exhibition

1996 Savannah International Airport

1995 York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center, "Onstage: A Century of African American

Stage Design,"

1994 Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

1993 Bomani Gallery, "Bay Area Artists," San Francisco, CA.

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, The Music Center of Los Angeles, United Scenic Artists, "Art By Design,"

1986 “Celebration  Funmi Odusolu and Suzanne Jackson Odusolu”, Brockman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

South Dallas Cultural Center, "In Celebration", Dallas, TX.

1985 “Suzanne Jackson, Kyoto Maruta, Tsutomu Takahashi” Bologna/Landi Gallery, East Hampton, L.I., N.Y.

1984 Fashion Moda, Suzanne Jackson and Thomas Corn

Idyllwild Village Galleries, “Atelier 6000”, Idyllwild, CA.

Ankrum Gallery "Olympic Art”, Los Angeles CA.

1983 Mary Sesnon Porter Gallery, University of California at Santa Cruz

1982, 1981 Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts

1980 Miami Dade Public Library, Miami Florida, “10 + 10”

1979 University of Southern California, "Ten Large Works,"

1978 William Grant Still Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

1975 State of California, State Controllers Exhibition

University of Illinois at Normal, "Black Women Artists,"

1974 Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York, N.Y.

Mt. San Antonio College, "Black Artists 1974”, CA.

1973 Womanspace Gallery, "Black Mirror, "Los Angeles, CA.

California State University, Humboldt, "Art of Black Culture,"

Chaffee College, "Bernie Casey /Suzanne Jackson /Charles White," CA.

1972 Ankrum Gallery, Special Exhibit for the Chinese Table Tennis Team, "Peace,"

1971-1972 Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, "U.S.A.,"

1970 California State University, "Two Generations of Black Artists," Los Angeles,

1968 Watts Summer Festival, Los Angeles, CA.

1960 Tanana Valley Professional Artists Association, Fairbanks, Alaska

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Eastern Connecticut State University, Permanent Collection, Willimantic, CT
U.S. Embassy Monrovia, Liberia, 2013-16 Ambassador Deborah Malac, Art in Embassies Program U.S. State Department
U.S. Embassy Belgrade, Serbia, 2009-12 Ambassador Mary Warlick, Art in Embassies Program U.S. State Department
Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA.
The Rumsey Band of Wintun Indians, Rumsey Rancheria, Brooks, CA.
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN.
California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
Savannah College of Art and Design, Jen Library
California State Office Building, Office of the Speaker of the Assembly, Los Angeles, California
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. State Office Building, Harlem, New York, N.Y.
DARC Medical Group Services, Inglewood, CA.
The New Health Center Mural, Los Angeles, CA. (four-year installation, destroyed)
The Crenshaw Wall, Mural, Los Angeles, CA. (Two- year installation)
University of California at Los Angeles, African American Studies Collection
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection, Palm Springs, CA.
Daniel, Mann, Johnson and Mendenhall, Los Angeles, CA.
Brockman Gallery Collection, Los Angeles, CA.
Ankrum Gallery Collection, Los Angeles, CA.
Monroe High School Foundation, Fairbanks, Alaska

ARTIST RESIDENCIES / LECTURES
2014 “When Artists Call Savannah Home”, Telfair Museums/Jepson Arts Center, ARC/Savannah panel,

moderator Jody Jenkins, with Lester Sloan, Daniel E. Smith, Christina Edwards, and Elizabeth Winnel,

Savannah, GA.

2011 Hammer Museum, panel presentation, “You’ve Come A Long Way Baby”, moderator Bridget Cooks,

Josine Ianco-Starrels, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville and Barbara McCullough, “NOW DIG THIS! Art and

Black Los Angeles, 1960 – 1980”

2010 Ossabaw Island Foundation Visiting Artists Program, Ossabaw Island, GA.

2009 Getty Research Institute, Oral History and Public Conversation Archives, Interviews and panel with

Betye Saar, Timothy Washington, Carolyn Peter and Damon Willick, “Modern Art In Los Angeles,

Gallery 32 and Its Circle”, Los Angeles, CA

2007 Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA.

2007 Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA.

2006 Sage Valley Farm Artist Residency, Shibori and Painting studio workspace, Monticello, KY.

2006 “Los Angeles: Art of the 60s-A Critical Reevaluation; Gallery 32,Risk, Innovation, Survival – Ending

the Sixties”, panel presentation, College Art Association Conference, Boston, MA

2003 Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Residency in SCAD Painting Department Printmaking Studios

2002 SCAD Painting Studio/Workspace, Elizabeth Foundation Bldg., New York, NY

2002 Roger Williams University, Art and Architecture Guest Lecturer

1997 Howard University, James A. Porter Colloquium

1994-1996 St. Mary's College of Maryland, Scenographer / Assistant Professor,

1996 Indiana University/Perdue University at Indianapolis, Guest Lecturer, Children’s Theatre Program

1987 San Francisco State University, Visiting Lecturer

1982-1985 The Elliott Pope Preparatory School, formerly The Desert Sun School

1981, 1982 University of Southern California, Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts

1981 Gibbs Museum and Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina

1981 Savannah College of Art and Design

1980, 1979, Studio Lectures, Los Angeles, CA.

1977 Center for the Visual Arts, Normal Editions Workshop, University of Illinois at Normal

1977 College of the Redwoods

1975 San Diego Fine Arts Society

1975 California State University, Los Angeles, Studio Lecture

1974 California Institute for Women, Lecture and Drawing Workshop

1974 Scripps College, Claremont Colleges

1974 Mt. San Antonio College

1972 Stanford University, Visiting Lecturer in Painting

1972 San Jose Art League

1972, 1973, 1975 University of the Pacific, Studio and Guest Lecturer

1969-1970 Los Angeles Public Schools, Guest Educational Aide for Black Arts Council Exhibits, Los Angeles


COMMISSIONS
2001 “A Lifetime of Achievement: Reflections of Jane Fonda”, Savannah Film and Video Festival,

Savannah, GA.

1979 The New Health Center Mural, "Spirit," 25.5’ x 68’, Los Angeles, CA.

The Crenshaw Wall, "Wind,” 58’ x 111’, Brockman Gallery Productions / C.E.T.A., Los Angeles, CA.

1976 Arthur Elrod and Associates, Palm Springs, CA.

1975 William Chidester Co. Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, "Artful Living,"

Dr. and Mrs. Leon Banks

Mr. Sonny Bono

1974 Mr. Stephen Chase, Arthur Elrod and Associates, Palm Springs, CA.

Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Newmark, Beverly Hills, CA.

1973 Joseph L. Searles, III and Company, New York, N.Y.

1972 Secretary of State Edmund G. Brown, Jr., "Peace Bird, Sacramento, CA.

1971 Mrs. J's Sweet Shoppe, Mural, 5’ x 30’ San Francisco, CA.
RECOGNITION / FELLOWSHIPS
2012 ARTSLANT Showcase Mixed-Media Award Winner

2009 Special Exhibition, “Gallery 32 and Its Circle”, Laband Gallery, Loyola Marymount University,

Curated by Carolyn Peter and Damon Willick, funded by the Eileen Norton Family Foundation

2007 Outstanding Creative Achievement Award, South Eastern College Art Conference (SECAC)

Presidential Fellowship for SCAD Faculty Development, Painting

2006 “5 to Collect in 2006”, Coastal Art and Antiques Magazine, Savannah, GA.

2003 Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development, SCAD Printmaking Studio Residency

2001 Hermes Scarf Design Commission, Finalist /Purchase Award, Savannah College of Art

and Design

1999-2000 Who’s Who in American Art, Special Edition

Outstanding People of the Twentieth Century

Dictionary of International Biography, 27th Edition

1998 to present, Who’s Who in the South and Southwest

1996-1999 Cave Canem Foundation Poetry Fellowship

1996 Who's Who in the World of Women

Who's Who in the East

1994 Who's Who in America

Who's Who in the West

1987-1990 Yale University, Yale Repertory Theatre, School of Drama, Design

1987 National Museum of Women in the Arts, charter artist, registry

1982,1983,1984 Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts, Associates Fellowships for Etching/Bookmaking

and Dance

1981 Nomination for the First National Award in the Visual Arts

Outstanding Young Women in America

1978 Grand Prize, Eyes and Ears Foundation, International Year of the Child billboard competition,

The World Who's Who of Women, Fourth Edition

1976 -present Who's Who in American Art

Who's Who Among Black Americans

Who's Who Among African Americans

1961 International Latham Foundation for a Humane Society and Kindness to Animals, Scholarships:

Banff School of Fine Arts Scholarship; Standard Oil Scholarship; and National Home Study

Art Course


FILM
2000-2005 “If Walls Could Talk”, Interview –studio/garden; Home and Garden National Television (HGTV),

1997 "Suzanne Jackson: Portrait of an Artist," Told by a Sister Production, Nefetari Spencer,

Savannah College of Art and Design

1994 "Suzanne Jackson," Oakland, CA., interview by Kathy Perkins, University of Illinois

1990 "SWEET NEZ, " Emery Kerr Productions, Production and Costume Design

1985 "Expressions in Black," National NBC Television Production, Los Angeles, featured artist



    1. “MURS, MURS, “Antenne 2, French Television Network, Cine-Tamaris, Agnes Varda;

(“Spirit”, New Health Center Mural, Los Angeles, CA.)

1974 "The White Shadow," episode for the television series, (paintings)

"Lifeguard," (paintings)

"Looking for Mr. Goodbar," (paintings)

"Black Mosaic," featured contemporary artist, National Educational Television, Zayd Darwish

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2013-present “Listen Here”, Weekly Music Discussion Group, WHCJ 90.3fm Savannah State University Radio

2014 Adjunct Professor of Foundation Studies, Savannah College of Art and Design

2013-2014 Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts, Sabbatical Replacement, Savannah State University

2012 “Eye to Eye: The Making of We”; Indigo Sky Gallery / Chatham-Savannah Citizen Advocacy

Project, Savannah, GA

Women’s Caucus for Art

2009- 2011 (CFAC) Creative Force Artists Collective, Savannah, GA.

Telfair Museum of Art and (FAAA) Telfair Friends of African American Art, Savannah, GA.

2009 “Black Women Artists, But Are They Feminists”, panel coordinator, Feminist Art Project,

College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles, CA.

2007 “Feminist Art Project”, Panelist, “Are We There Yet? The Status and Impact of Second- and Third

Wave Feminism, Women’s Art, the Women’s Movement and “Feminist Art”, CAA Conference,

New York, NY

2006 Panel Presentation, “Los Angeles Art of the 60s: A Critical Reevaluation”—Gallery 32: Risk,



Innovation, Survival-Ending the Sixties”, College Art Association Conference, Boston, MA

2004-2012 College Art Association Membership

Southeastern College Art Association, Panelist “ Squaring the Circle: Women in Art and Art

History”, Jacksonville FL.

2002-2006 Telfair Art Fair Committee, SCAD Liaison, Telfair Museum of Art


  1. VIII Havana Bienal, Havana, Cuba, U.S.A. Visiting Guest Artist

Prague Biennial 1, Visiting Artist, Prague, Czech Republic

1999 “Women’s Caucus for Art”, panelist, College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles, CA

2009-2013 Adjunct Professor of Painting, Graduate Studies, SCAD eLearning

1996-2009 Professor of Painting, Savannah College of Art and Design

1990-1998 United Scenic Artists, Local 829

1960-1998 Costume and Scenic Design for Theatre, Dance and Film, (USA, Local 829)

1994-1996 Scenographer / Assistant Professor, St. Mary's College of Maryland

1966- Dancer /Choreographer /Actor, Actor's Equity Association

1985-1986 Project Director, Cultural Exchange Program, Lagos, Nigeria / Wajumbe Cultural Institution,

San Francisco, CA.



    1. Chair of the Fine and Performing Arts Department, Instructor in Painting / Drawing and Dance,

The Elliott Pope Preparatory School, (formerly the Desert Sun School), Idyllwild, CA.

1978- present Director, Sunflower-Seed Productions

1976-1978 Century City Cultural Commission, Vice Chairperson

1977-1978 Artist / Coordinator, Brockman Gallery Productions CETA Public Art Program

1976-1978 California Arts Council, Vice Chairperson

1975-1976 California Arts Commission

1972 Principal Researcher, "Inherent Retention of African Culture by Blacks in the Americas,"

Exhibition Coordinator, "Black Expo'72, " San Francisco, CA.

1972-1973 Member of Mayor Alioto's Screening Committee for Street Artists, San Francisco Art Commission

1969-1970 Member Board of Directors, Los Angeles Black Arts Council

1968-1970 Owner / Director of Gallery 32, Los Angeles, CA.

1966 Music Theatre U.S.A, State Department, Mexico and South America, Dancer / Actor

1966 Music Circus, Sacramento and Fresno Civic Light Operas, Dancer / Actor


SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2013 United States Embassy Monrovia, Liberia, ART in Embassies Exhibition catalogue, ART in Embassies,

U. S. Department of State, Washington, D.C November 2013

Allison Hersh, Art Review: Art & Soul: Savannah Morning News, Music inspires exhibit at Indigo Sky,

Sunday, October 6, 2013


2012 Carolyn Peter and Damon Willick, Nka journal of Contemporary African Art, “Gallery 32

and Its Circle”, Number 30, Spring/2012; The Black Arts Movement

Allison Hersh, Art and Soul: The Art of Community, Savannah Morning News

Savannah Magazine, Eye to Eye, Chatham-Savannah Advocacy/Indigo Sky, October


2011 Christopher Knight, Art Review: ‘NOW DIG THIS!’ at the UCLA Hammer Museum, October 10,

Los Angeles Times

“NOW DIG THIS! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980” catalogue, Pacific Standard Time,

Art in L.A. 1945-1980, J. Paul Getty Trust, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

“Eyeminded”, by Kellie Jones

“L.A. Object and David Hammons Body Prints, by Connie Rogers Tilton and Lindsay Charlwood

“L.A. Rising: SoCal Artists Before 1980”, by Lyn Kienholz, California International Arts Foundation
2010 “Why Go Anywhere Else?” catalogue, Museum touring exhibitions, Montenegro and Serbia,

Savannah College of Art and Design Painting and faculty and associate artists


2008 Carolyn Peter and Damon Willick, “Gallery 32 and Its Circle, Laband Gallery, Loyola Marymount

University, Los Angeles, CA.

portfolioweekly.com, Saturday, August 9, “Suzanne Jackson, Recent Works”, Newport News, VA.

Betsy DiJulio, “Abstraction Is Concrete”, August 6, Williamsburg, VA.

Mark St. John Erickson, At a Glance, daily press.com, “Bringing Abstract Back”, July 20.

Newport News, VA.

WYDaily Staff, Pfac’s “Abstraction Today: Difficult, But Worthwhile Art Form”, Monday, July 14,

Newport News, VA.

Margy Rich, “Not For Sale – 2007-08 Ink on Paper 36 Pages”, Blurb Inc.
2007 Michael Woody, “If These Walls Could Talk”, deep magazine, deepmag.com, September

“Marks from the Matrix”, ed, by Richard Finch and Veda M. Rives, Normal Editions Workshop, IL.

Nikky Finney, ed. “Ringing Ear, a Cave Canem Anthology”, University of Georgia Press
2006 African American Visual Arts Database, www.aavad.com, Boston Museum School, Cambridge, MA.

“Five to collect in 2006”, Coastal Art and Antiques, Savannah, GA., January.


2005 William Zimmer, contributing critic for the New York Times, “catalogue essay”, New York, NY


  1. Monique Bos, “Painting professor explores new direction”, Art and About, The Chronicle,

Internet vol.4, No. 22, October 29.
2003 Prague Biennale I catalogue, Giancarlo Politi Publications, courtesy promotional page
2002 The Internationale Biennale fur Bildende Kunst- 2002, Austria, catalogue

“NINE”, Savannah College of Art and Design Painting Faculty Exhibition catalogue, Design Press
2001 Nancy K. Wellard, “Gallery displays beautiful, varied works” Arts & Entertainment,

The Island Packet, Hilton Head Island, SC., July 6.

Ally Jackson, “The road most traveled”, art review, The Campus Chronicle, June 15.

2000 Judy Birke, “Visual links to heritage subtle and overt”, art review, New Haven, Register, New Haven,

New Haven, CT., April 2.
FEMSPEC, VOL. 2.1, cover art, “Behind – Infront”, Cleveland State University
Talking Stick, Pequot Times, “Peltier paintings at Sankofa Festival”, March.
Rachel Mason, interview, "A Centerpiece of Neighborhood Revitalization   The Starland Dairy Project",

Photography by Matt Moyer, Connect, Savannah, GA, January 21 27.




  1. Mariinucchi, Marcelle, "The human form captures the focus of painter Suzanne Jackson", Coastal Art

and Antiques, Savannah, GA, September

Randall, Zoe, "Exploring water spirits and playing crochet", Connect, Savannah, GA, Inside Art,

July 9 15.

Randall, Zoe, "Rich Colors, Strong Textures," Savannah Morning News, Savannah, GA, Sunday,

March 21.

Randall, Zoe, "Suzanne Jackson and Michael Rich Sweep Lines,” Coastal Art and Antiques,

Savannah, GA, April.

"Dictionary of International Biography, 28th Edition, 2000, 27th Edition.


1998 "African American Artists of Los Angeles: Suzanne Jackson," interview by Karen Anne Mason,

Oral History Program, University of California at Los Angeles


1997- present "Who's Who in the South and Southwest

"St. James Guide to Black Artists,"


1996, 1997, 1999 "Cave Canem. Anthology," drawings and poetry
1996 "Avatar 25”, drawings and poetry, St. Mary's College of Maryland

Potomac Review," poetry


1995 "Gumbo YaYa, Anthology of Contemporary African American Women Artists," introduction by Leslie

King Hammond, Mismatch Arts Press


1994 "I Hear A symphony, African Americans Celebrate Love," by Paula Woods and Felix Liddell,

Anchor Books


1994-present, Who’s Who in the West?
1993 Gordon, Allen, "Prime Time," Art Week, September 23.
1989 “19 Sixties", California Museum of African American Art
1986 American Visions, Afro American Art  1986, "Taking the lead in the Visual Arts", by Nancy McKinney
"Four Plus One", National Urban League Conference, San Francisco, Catalogue

1984 "The Valley of the Moon", International Women's Writing Guild


1983 "Contemporary Women Artists”, Bo Tree Publications

1981 Coaxum, Julia, The News and Courier, The Evening Post, Charleston, SC., October 10.


Jordan, Abbie, Savannah News Press, August 16.
1980 "Black Art, an International Quarterly”, Vol. III, No. 4, cover story and biography by Mae Tate
1978 "Animal ", Paintings and Poetry, Suzanne Jackson, Continuity Transcripts and Features
Munchnic, Suzanne, Los Angeles Times Calendar, October 22.
1978 to present, “The World Who’s Who of Women”, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England,

Fourth Edition

1977 “In Praise of Women Artists”, Bo-Tree Publishers

“Contextures”, Goode-Bryant and Phillips, Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York

“Contributions of Women-Art”, by Carol Fowler, Dillon Press

“African American”, by Samella Lewis, Harcourt and Brace Publishers


1976 to present, “Who’s Who among African Americans, Gale Research

“Who’s Who in Afro American Art


1975 Black Enterprise Magazine, “Survival”, December.

Encore Magazine, April and July.


1975, 1974 Essence Magazine, December 1974 and March 1975
1974 Hazlitt, Gordon, “Creating Her Own World”, Art News, November.

Seldis, Henry, Los Angeles Times, September 13.

West Coast 1974,The Black Image”, E.B. Crocker Gallery catalogue, Sacramento, CA.
1973 to present “Who’s Who in American Art”, American Federation of the Arts, Jacques Catrell Press,

Bowker Publishers


1972 “Third World Women’s Book, Poche-Che Publishers

Statements Magazine, Vol. III, art editor and contributor, John Henry, editor, Marcus Books Press

“What I Love”, Paintings and Poetry, Suzanne Jackson, Contemporary Crafts Publishers

Frankenstein, Alfred, San Francisco Chronicle, September 8


1971 McCann, Cecile, Art Week, November 21.

Albright, Thomas, San Francisco Examiner, November 5.


1970 “Black Artists On Art”, Vol. II, Ward Ritchie Press

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