The Neuberger Museum of Art”™s signature Roy R. Neuberger Prize has been awarded to Tomashi Jackson, internationally acclaimed painter, printmaker and video artist according to Museum Director Tracy Fitzpatrick. “Tomashi Jackson: SLOW JAMZ,” an exhibition of the artist”™s work, will be on view at the Purchase, New York-based museum from April 13 through Nov. 27. The show will be accompanied by an exhibition catalogue and a $25,000 cash award.
Named for the museum”™s founding patron, the biennial prize honors Neuberger”™s lifelong commitment to support the work of living artists.
Jackson”™s multimedia work includes painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography and video with imagery sourced from archival research, which she uses to create hybrid visual collages.
“I”™m just trying to explore the world around me,” says Jackson.
Jackson was born in Houston, Texas, in 1980, raised in Los Angeles and currently lives and works in New York and Cambridge, Massachusetts. She received a BFA from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York; an MS from the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, Cambridge; and an MFA from the Yale School of Art, New Haven. She has been a visiting lecturer at Harvard University, Cambridge, and an adjunct professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence and the Cooper Union School of Art, New York. New York and Night Gallery in Los Angeles.
The Roy R. Neuberger Prize was introduced during a November 2008 celebration of his 105th birthday. His legacy is carried on today through the ongoing support of his son and daughter-in-law, Jim Neuberger and Helen Stambler Neuberger.
The Neuberger Museum of Art opened on the campus of Purchase College, State University of New York, in 1974 with a core collection donated by Roy R. Neuberger, one of the greatest private collectors, philanthropists and arts advocates of the 20th Century.
