Deborah Jack is a multidisciplinary artist whose work includes video installation, photography, and text. Her practice engages a variety of strategies for mining the intersections of histories, cultural memory, ecology, and climate change.
Jack received an MFA from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2002. Her work has been featured in significant exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, NY; Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, MA; the Houston Center of Photography, TX; and other renowned institutions. In 2021, a retrospective, Deborah Jack: 20 Years, was presented at Pen + Brush in New York, NY. Her work is in the collections of Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL; Des Moines Art Center, IA; Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; and the Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA. Jack was a 2023 Changing Climate Resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute and a Surf Point Foundation artist-in-residence. She is a recipient of a Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts (2024), a Soros Arts Fellowship (2023), a Jersey City Artist Grant (2022), and a Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists (2021). Jack is currently a Professor of Art at New Jersey City University.
Deborah Jack
B. 1970, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Lives in Cole Bay. St. Maarten and Jersey City, NJ
Venue
2429 St Claude Ave
New Orleans, LA 70117
Monday–Tuesday, Closed
Wednesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm
Neighborhood
About the Artist
Previous Works
7 channel video installation, 7:58 min. Installation view of Forecast Forms: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Nov 19, 2022 - Apr 23, 2023). Image courtesy of the artist.
Single-channel video, 8:31 mins. Image courtesy of the artist.
Single-channel video, 8:31 mins. Image courtesy of the artist.
Single-channel video, 6:01 mins. Image courtesy of the artist.