KOBE JACKSON
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Education
2024 Rhode Island School of Design, M. A. in Global Arts and Cultures
2002 Oberlin College, B. A. in Visual Arts with a concentration in Digital Video and minor in Sociology
Solo Shows
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2022 White Electric Coffee, Providence, RI
2021 Watermyn Co-op, Providence, RI
2020 Dirt Palace Store Front Window Gallery, Providence, RI
2019 Three Wheel Studio, Providence, RI
2018 Queer Art Festival, AS220 Black Box Theater, Providence, RI
2017 Gallery 800 UBD, Madison, WI
2016 Avenue 50 Studio Satellite Gallery, Los Angeles
South Bay Contemporary, San Pedro, CA
Selected Group Shows
2024 True Ecology, East Manning Projects, Providence, RI
Throughlines: Objects of Belonging, RISD Center for Integrated Technologies, Providence, RI
2022 Soup, Who Cares… RISD Memorial Hall, Providence, RI
Flora and Fauna, AS220 Aborn Gallery, Providence, RI
2021 The Avenue Concept, Providence, RI
Homegrown Gallery. Providence, RI
2020 Women’s Day Exhibition, The Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Flora and Fauna, AS220 Mercantile Gallery, Providence, RI
2019 Three Wheel Studio, Providence, RI
2018 The Barker Hanger, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Coaster Show, La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles, CA
2016 The Neutra Gallery Museum, Silver Lake, CA
The Rowan, Los Angeles, CA
Pacific Avenue Artists Colony, San Pedro, CA
Future Studio, Highland Park, CA
Downtown Art Walk Lounge, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Align Gallery, Highland Park, CA
Co-Lab Gallery, Highland Park, CA
Folktree, Pasadena, CA
Sugarmynt Gallery, South Pasadena, CA
2014 Post-Future Gallery, San Pedro, CA
Blackstone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Art World Bootcamp with Mat Gleason, Red Pipe Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Artshare, Los Angeles, CA
Art Squared Gallery/ Pershing Square, Los Angeles, CA
Exhibition Curation
2024 Coalesce: Happenstance, Sol Koffler, Providence, RI
Mixotricha: Death of the Author, Rebus Cathedral, Providence, RI
Rainbow Stones: Chromolithography Through Time, Fleet Library, Providence, RI
2023 Traversing Terrain, Gilman Gallery, Providence, RI
Fractals of Fabulation, Nightingale Brown House, Providence, RI
2022 Identity as Context; Memory as Content, Granoff Atrium, Providence, RI
Disjointed Pluralities, Nightingale Brown House, Providence, RI
2020 Bahra Place Mall, Olneyville Square, Providence, RI
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Volunteer
2021-2022 Community painting workshop facilitator, Phoenix Apartments, Providence, RI
Publication
2023 v.1, RISD student publication, Starchive artist interviews
2023 Backcountry Journal Magazine Cover, Winter
2023 Earth is a Feeling, published by Brown University Arts Institute
2022 Hidden Dreams, published by Brown University Arts Institute
Public Art
2021 Utility Box Mural commissioned by The Avenue Concept, Providence, RI
2020 5 Utility Box Murals in NoHo commissioned by Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
2018 3 Utility Box Murals in Little Ethiopia commissioned by Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
2015 1 Utility Box Mural commissioned by San Pedro Waterfront Arts District
2014 1 Utility Box Mural commissioned by San Pedro Waterfront Arts District
2014 Airbnb Open, live painter, Los Angeles, CA
Residency
2021 Wedding Cake House, Providence, RI
Awards
2002 Frameline 26
2015 Arts Alliance Award, Los Angeles Plein Air Festival, Los Angeles
2024 Course Innovation Intercollegiate Collaborative Grant and Fellowship from Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA) for the course Chromapolitics of Visuality co-taught by Macarena Gomez-Barris & Tina Campt