Michael Jackson

(English, born 1964)

  • photography

    photography

     
  • prints

    prints

     
 
Michael Jackson moved to Chicago from London in 1994. An interdisciplinary artist who studied fine art printmaking and film at SAIC Graduate School, where he won the James Nelson Raymond Fellowship Award, Jackson has exhibited his photography work internationally as far afield as Tokyo and Scotland. An active musician and printmaking instructor, Jackson’s concurrent specialism is editorial work in the music business. He has written and photographed for numerous publications and record labels including Downbeat, Chicago SunTimes, Chicago Reader, New City, Jazzwise, The Wire, The Guardian (UK), Jazz on CD, Jazziz, Delmark Records, Premonition etc. As a photojournalist he has been active recording the jazz/blues and world music scene for twenty years. Some of Jackson’s images recently featured in Jazzography, A Portrait of the Chicago Jazz Festival at 30, published by the Jazz Institute of Chicago.

EDUCATION:
Foundation Course in Art and Design, Harrogate College of Art, North Yorkshire, UK 1983-1984.
BA (Hons) Graphic Design, Brighton University, Sussex, UK 1985-1988
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US 1987
MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1994-96

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
Group show, Smith's Gallery, Covent Garden, London, 1988
Solo show Regent Palace Hotel, Piccadilly, London, Oct 1990
Solo show The Outside In Festival, Crawley, Sussex UK, Sept 1991
Solo show Battersea Arts Centre, London, June 1992
AOI 'Images 17' Exhibition, Still Price Lintas, London, Nov 1992
The Block Printing Studio, London SE1, Dec 1992
Graphisch Atelier Utrecht, Holland, Nov 1993
National Print Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London, Jan 1994
Group show at London Print Workshop, April 1994
Solo show at the Smith's Gallery, Aug 1994
National Works on Paper, University of Tennessee, April 1995
12th Juried Midwest Print Show, Loyola University, Chicago 1995
"Mediating Texts" Juried show Betty Rymer Gallery, Sept 1995
Honda/Hurr/Jackson/Jungle/Wlodarczak/Wong, Gallery 2, Chicago, March-April 1996
1968 Now? Juried Show at Gallery 2, Chicago, August 1996
Printmakers' Renaissance Exhibition, National Juried Show, Rolling Stone Press, Atlanta GA, March 1997
13th Juried Midwestern Print Show, Loyola University, Chicago, April 1997
Biennial Faculty Exhibition, Evanston Arts Center, Illinois July 1997/99/01
Janet Turner National Print Competition, California State University, Chico, CA, August 1997
The Group Sports Show/Multiples, Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, Chicago Aug 1997/Dec 1997
Mid American Print Council, Annual Juried Exhibition, Nov 1997
Contents and Contexts: Lithography After 200 Years,' Honolulu Printmakers, Hawaii, Sept 1998
National Juried Exhibition, Associated Artists of Winston-Salem, NC, Oct 22-Nov 28, 1998
Biannual Faculty Exhibition, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Nov 1998/Feb 2001
12th Parkside National Small Print Exhibition, University of Wisconsin Kenosha, Jan 17-Feb 27, 1999
Anchor Graphics Auction, Chicago, 1998/99/2000/01/02
Michael Jackson/Ruth Franklin/Gary Goodman, Vinson Gallery, Decatur, GA, May 27 -June 1999
Faculty Exhibition, Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL Sept. 3-Sept. 21 1999
Group Show, Juleauboulout Gallery, Brighton, Sussex, England May 97/98/99/2000
Benefit Auction, EAC, 96-2001
Invitational Summer Show, Columbia College Center for Book & Paper Arts, Chicago, July 2001
Anniversary, Chicago Printmakers; Collaborative, exhibition/portfolio, Belloc Lowndes, Sept 2000
B&Wx3YBAs - three man show @ Vinson Gallery, Decatur, GA, Oct 2000
Rhymes and Rhythms, art and text show at Artworks, New Bedford MA, Oct 2000
MIAD Faculty Show Feb 2001
Minnesota National Print Biennial, April 2001
Fun" Art Auction, Sothebys, Chicago, August 2001
(A)Live and K(L)ickin', solo show in conjunction with Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Vinson Gallery, Oct 2001

PRIZES:
Special Award Winner, Dane Screen Printing Competition, London, 1991
IMAGES 17: Design Annual Competition Winner, 1992
Nippon Steel Competition Award, 1995
Honorable Mention, National Works on Paper Exhibition, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1995
Nippon Steel III Competition Award
James Nelson Raymond Fellowship, 1996

RELATED WORK:
Artist/owner - Hello Mum! design company
Print shop assistant at Landfall Press, Chicago, editioning lithographs for Christo, Tony Fitzpatrick, Robert Lostutter, Leslie Dill, Kara Walker etc 1997
Editor/co-art director of En Passant, a retrospective volume of Dennis Manarchy's photographic work, 1996-99
Visiting artist/critiquer: University of Wisconsin at Madison, March 2001
Gallery 37, Chicago, July 2001
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Oct 2001

TEACHING:
Open College of the Arts, Hastings, West Sussex, UK, 1991 (Drawing/painting/graphic design)
University of East London, 1993 (graphic design)
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1994-5 (Relief/Intaglio/Lithography/Screen printing)
Evanston Arts Center, Evanston Illinois, 1995-2002 (experimental printmaking/relief/etching/litho
Instructor/department coordinator)
Chicago Printmakers' Collaborative 1997-2000 (lithography/screen printing)
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design 1998-2002 (printmaking)

PUBLICATIONS:
Michael is a regular contributor to Downbeat, The Chicago Reader, New City, Jazzwise (UK) as well as the Jazz Institute of Chicago and Delmark Records.