Philip R. Jackson Works Biography
Philip R. Jackson Biography
Representational artist Philip R. Jackson paints in the still life tradition capturing the essence of life in a still moment. Although his staple subject has a long historical lineage, it is obvious his paintings are not your grandmother’s still life. The illusion of his realism captures objects seemingly inanimate but as light reveals them, their mysteries uncover a conversation that’s been happening long before our approach to the picture. His still life paintings have been widely received and featured in many premiere art magazines and are part of numerous private, corporate and museum art collections nationwide. John Wilmerding, acclaimed author, collector and former curator at the National Gallery of Art, wrote of him as the “Still Life Painter for the 21st Century.” He has received grants from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation in Montreal, Canada, the Mississippi Museum of Art, the Mississippi Arts Commission and the Tyrone Guthrie Foundation in Monaghan, Ireland. Jackson received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Columbus College of Art & Design in Columbus, Ohio and his Master of Fine Arts from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. He also studied abroad at Studio Art Centers International in Florence, Italy. He resides in Oxford, Mississippi where he teaches at The University of Mississippi and heads the painting program.
CURRICULUM
EDUCATION
2002 MFA, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio
2001 Summer Study, (SACI) Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy
2000 BFA, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2006- Present Professor of Art, Painting Area Head
The University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi
ART JURYING EXPERIENCE
2018 60th Mid States Juried Exhibition, Evansville Museum, Evansville, Indiana
2018 Mississippi Arts Commission, Statewide Individual Artist Grant Competition
2015 Germantown Art League, Annual Juried Exhibition, Germantown, Tennessee
2012 West Virginia Juried National Exhibition, Charleston, West Virginia
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
SECAC Member since 2011
Zeuxis Member since 2018
(Zeuxis is a collective of painters that focus on the still life.)
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Evansville Museum of Art, History, & Science, Evansville, Indiana
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi
Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, Mississippi
Mississippi Arts Commission, Jackson, Mississippi
Renasant Bank, Tupelo, Mississippi
West Baden Springs Resort, French Lick, Indiana
AWARDS/ GRANTS
2020 Individual Artist Grant, Mississippi Arts Commission
Atelier Focus Fellowship, AIR Serenbe, Chattahoochee Hills, Alabama
2019 International Collaboration Grant, The University of Mississippi
2017 Jane Crater Hiatt Artist Fellowship ($15,000)
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi
2015 Individual Artist Grant, Mississippi Arts Commission
2014 Purchase Award, The Red Clay Survey • Huntsville Museum of Art
Huntsville, Alabama, Juror: Suzanna Coffee
2013 Summer Faculty Research Grant, The University of Mississippi
2012 Best in Show, The Academy of Fine Arts Juried Exhibition • Juror: Lee Sandstead
Summer Faculty Research Grant, The University of Mississippi
2011 Summer Faculty Research Grant, The University of Mississippi
2008 Individual Artist Grant, Mississippi Arts Commission,
Research Scholar Fellowship, The University of Mississippi ($12,000)
Martha and Merritt DeJong Memorial Artist-in-Residence Fellowship
Evansville Museum of Art Evansville, Indiana
2006 Purchase Award, 2006 Biennial: Contemporary American Realism
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana • Juror: Peter Tatistcheff
2001 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Fellowship ($12,500) • Montreal, Canada
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
2020 AIR Serenbe, Chattahoochee Hills, Alabama
2019 Tyrone Guthrie Foundation, Monaghan, Ireland
2008 Evansville Museum of Art Evansville, Indiana
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Ireland Landscapes, Tyrone Guthrie Foundation, Monaghan Co. Ireland
Florals, Gumtree Museum of Art, Tupelo, Mississippi
Painting Ireland, Honors College, University of Mississippi
Ireland En Plein Air, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Monaghan, Ireland
Florals & Studies, Southside Gallery, Oxford, Mississippi
2018 Still life Paintings, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, Mississippi
2016 Preludes, Southside Gallery, Oxford, Mississippi
2012 Suspended, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas
2010 Still-Life As Theater, The University of North Carolina, Asheville
2009 Southside Art Gallery, Oxford, Mississippi
2008 A Most Remarkable Theater: A Survey of Fifty Paintings
Evansville Museum of Art, Evansville, Indiana, Catalog
2007 Still-Life Theatre, Hammond Harkins Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
2006 Stage-Struck, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 (Zeuxis) Gems, THERE Gallery, NYC
Painting Through Things, Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, Louisiana
2019 (Zeuxis) My Studio, Traveling Exhibition, ( NYC, Alabama, Ohio)
Realism, Traveling Exhibition, (Michigan, Ohio, Indiana)
2018 Two-Person Exhibition, Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama
(Zeuxis) Drawing the Curtain, First Street Gallery, NYC
(Zeuxis) Veils, THERE Gallery, NYC
2017 (Zeuixis) The Unstilllife, traveling exhibition (Delaware College of Art & Design, Wilmington, Delaware; The Painting Center, NYC; University of Arkansas, Fort Smith Arkansas; University of Mississippi Museum, Oxford, Mississippi)
(Zeuixis) Flowers as Metaphor, traveling exhibition (Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas; Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, California; Notre Dame de Numar Univerity, Belmont, California)
2016 Mississippi Invitational, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi
Juror: Marisa J. Pascucci
International Juried Show of Contemporary Still Life, John F. Peto Studio Museum
Island Heights, New Jersey, Juror: Dr. Tom Folk
International 12th Annual Magnitude 7, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
2015 Strange Paradise, First Street Gallery, NYC, Juried National, Juror: Steven Harvey
2014 Contemporary American Realism Biennial, Fort Wayne Museum of Art,
The Red Clay Survey, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama
Juried National, Juror: Suzanna Coffee
2013 Evansville Collects: The Contemporary Still Life, Evansville Museum of Art
High: Realism’s Realism, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, Juried National
77th Midyear Juried Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
2012 Contemporary American Realism Biennial, Fort Wayne Museum of Art
Fort Wayne, Indiana, Juror: Frank Bernarducci
Small Works, Harper College, Chicago, Illinois, Juried National
Juror: Aron Packer, Director of Packer Schopf Gallery
National Juried Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Lynchburg, Virginia
Juror: Lee Sandstead
2011 BOXED: 5 Southeastern Artists, Whitespace, Mordes Collection
West Palm Beach, Florida, Curated by Rod Faulds, Invitational
SouthXeast, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida,
2009 Mississippi Invitational, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi
Juror: Peter Plagens, Catalog, Article, “Mississippi Yearning”, Art In America
For Real? The Art of Deception, Cabarrus Arts Council, Concord, North Carolina
2008 Contemporary American Realism Biennial, Fort Wayne Museum of Art • Fort Wayne, Indiana, Juried National, Catalog
Fresh Art • Hammond Harkins Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
Summer Selections, John Stobart and Hammond Harkins Gallery
Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
2007 New Beginnings, Hentschel Art Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa
Richeson 75: Still Life, Richeson School of Art and Gallery, Kimberly, Wisconsin Juried National
Group Invitational, Center of the Earth Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
New Still Life Paintings, Hammond Harkins Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
2006 Contemporary American Realism Biennial, Fort Wayne Museum of Art,
Fort Wayne, Indiana, Juror: Peter Tatistcheff, Purchase Award, Catalog
Drawn to Drawing: The New Masters, Group Invitational
Southern Ohio Museum of Art, Portsmouth, Ohio, Brochure
Group Show, Edith Caldwell Gallery, Sausalito, California
The Contemporary Still Life, Oxford Gallery, Rochester, New York
My Favorite Things: Contemporary Realism, Center of the Earth Gallery
Charlotte, North Carolina
Small & Wonderful, Hammond Harkins Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
2005 Art for Life, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio
Leading Lights, Alumni Invitational Exhibition, Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, Ohio, Poster Cover
Summer Selections, John Stobart and Hammond Harkins Gallery
Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
2004 151st Mid States Art Exhibition, Evansville Museum of Arts, Evansville, Indiana
Juried National
Observation, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, Juried National
Juried Group Exhibition, Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Ohio
A Measured Vision, Group Invitational Exhibition, Joseph V. Canzani Gallery Columbus, Ohio
2003 Ohio State Fair Exhibition, Columbus, Ohio, Juried National
Still Life, Hammond Harkins Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
Great Plains National Ninth Annual, Moss-Thorns Gallery of Art
Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas, Juried National
International Juried Show, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts
Summit, New Jersey
2002 150th Mid States Art Exhibition, Evansville Museum of Art
Evansville, Indiana, Juried National
All Kentucky Juried Exhibition, Capital Arts Center, Bowling Green, Kentucky
Roland Byars Willock Memorial Merit Award
84th Annual Toledo Area Artist Exhibition, Toledo Art Museum, Toledo, Ohio
Juried Regional
People, Places, and Things, John Stobart and Hammond Harkins Gallery
Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
Liminal Observations, Gallery Genori, Florence, Italy
2001 Drawing From Perception VI , Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Juried National
Annual All-Ohio Juried Exhibition, Ohio State University, Mansfield, Ohio
83rd Annual Toledo Area Artist Exhibition, Toledo Art Museum, Toledo, Ohio
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INPA 9, Manifest Gallery, International Juried Competition, January 2020
Seed, John, “Painting the Spirit of Things,” Huffington Post, February 7, 2017
Gallery, Artelibre, “Arte y Libertad XI”, Yearbook Catalog, Hardcover, 2016, Spain
Seed, John, “Hightened Perceptions”, Poets and Artists Magazine, June 2015, #65
O’Hern, John, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Contemporary Realism, American Art Collector, November 2014
Gangelhoff, Bonnie, “Artistic Excellence”, Southwest Art Magazine, December 2013: pages 77, 70-85.
Smith, Stephen, “The New Aesthetics,” Post-Modern Times, the journal of aesthetics and art history, vol.1, No.2, 2013, pages 28-31.
Doherty, M. Steven, “John W. Streetman III: Offering a Showcase and a Critical eye to Contemporary Realists,” Plein Air Magazine, March 2012 pages 43-47
Peterson, Martine, “Fresh Paint,” American Art Collector Magazine, Still Life Issue, February 2011, pages 166-169.
Wolf, Elizabeth, “Contemporary Realism Biennial 2010,” exhibition catalog with photograph, Fort Wayne, Indiana, September 3, 2010.
Metcalf, James, “Unexpected Combinations of Objects,” American Artist Magazine, Still Life Highlights, Featured Artist, April 2010: pages 100-107.
Plagens, Peter, “Mississippi Yearning,” Art In America, November 2009: 99-108
Metcalf, James, “Extraordinary Still Lifes,” American Artist Magazine, Featured Artist, July/August 2007: pages 40-47. Cover story
Gangelhoff, Bonnie, “Not Your Grandmother’s Still Life”, Southwest Art Magazine, Still Life Issue, June 2007: pages 17, 106-111.
