Tomashi Jackson (b. 1980, Houston, TX) received her BFA from Cooper Union in 2010; earned her MS in Art, Culture and Technology from the MIT School of Architecture and Planning in 2012; and received her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale University School of Art in 2016. She was included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial, was a 2019 Resident Artist at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, and received the 2023 Rappaport Prize, the 2022 Roy R. Neuberger Prize, and a 2020 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. Jackson has presented solo exhibitions at institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase; Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill; Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge; Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus; and Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw. She has participated in group shows at the Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston; The Guggenheim Museum, New York; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX; Institute for Contemporary Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among many others. Jackson’s work belongs in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Guggenheim Museum, New York; MOCA, Los Angeles; Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, OH; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill; Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; and the Studio Museum in Harlem, among others. She has taught at Rhode Island School of Design, Massachusetts College of Art, and Cooper Union, and has been a visiting artist at New York University. Jackson lives and works between Cambridge, MA, and New York City.