Suzanne Jackson (artist)

Suzanne Jackson
Suzanne Jackson at Wormsloe Historic Site, Savannah, Georgia 2018
Born (1944-01-30) January 30, 1944 (age 80)
Other namesSuzanne Fitzallen Jackson, Suzanne Jackson Odùsolú[1]
EducationSan Francisco State University (BA),
Yale University (MFA)

Suzanne Jackson (born 1944)[2][1] is an American visual artist, gallery owner, poet, dancer, educator, and set designer; with a career spanning five decades. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. Since the late 1960s, Jackson has dedicated her life to studio art with additional participation in theatre, teaching, arts administration, community life, and social activism. Jackson's oeuvre includes poetry, dance, theater, costume design, paintings (both two- and three-dimensional), prints, and drawings.

Jackson has spent time throughout her career teaching students and influencing future generations of artists and culture creators, as well as building and participating in close-knit art communities with peer artists and thinkers. She worked in Los Angeles during the 1960s to 1980s, founding Gallery 32, and exhibiting additional work at the Ankrum Gallery. During the 1980s she lived in Idyllwild, California teaching and creating art. She also worked at Yale University, and in New York and Philadelphia in the 1990s. She worked in the Savannah, Georgia art community, from 1996 to 2009.

  1. ^ a b "Jackson, Suzanne (American painter, mixed-media artist, born 1944)". Union List of Artist Names Online. The J. Paul Getty Trust.
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