Deborah Jack - April 2023

Deborah Jack in the Pool Room Studio. Photo by Heather Henriksen.

Deborah Jack, is a St. Maarten and Jersey City based multi-disciplinary artist whose work is based in video/sound installation, photography, painting and text. Her work engages a variety of strategies for mining the intersections of histories, cultural memory, ecology and climate change, while negotiating a global present. Her work is featured in the exhibition Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990’s-Today at the MCA Chicago and will travel to ICA Boston in Fall 2023. In Fall 2021 Deborah Jack: 20 Years was presented at Pen + Brush in New York City. Group exhibitions include the Perez Art Museum of Miami exhibition and the traveling exhibition, SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Brooklyn Museum of Art, TENT Rotterdam, the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling, the Frost Museum at FIU, Portland Museum in Maine, and Delaware Art Museum. Her work has been reviewed in Hyperallergic, Whitehot , Frieze and BOMB Magazine. She will be a 2023 Changing Climate Resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute. Deborah is currently a Professor of Art at New Jersey City University.

Visit Deborah’s website here.

Untitled #8, from Intertidal Imaginaries: The Resistant Geographies of the Shore(coast) in the Aftermath of Saltwater(storm surges), 2021