DARLA JACKSON www.darlajacksonsculpture.com | @darlajacksonsculpture | [email protected]
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Enter the 36 Chambers, Antler Gallery, Portland, OR 2021 Guarantee of nothing…, Antler Gallery, Portland, OR 2020 I imagine losing you all the time, Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2019 Blinders, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA 2019 Little Wars…, ArtBox, Philadelphia, PA 2018 …a slow death…, Paradigm Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2017 Null and Void…, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2015 Wind Challenge 2015, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA 2015 Brace for Impact, Philadelphia Sculpture Gym, Philadelphia, PA 2014 All’s Fair, The Crane Arts Building, Philadelphia, PA 2013 Surprise Party, Ocean City Arts Center, Ocean City, NJ 2011 While you were out…, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA 2010 A Miniature Ocean, Mew Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2009 Waiting…, Community Arts Center, Wallingford, PA 2008
SELECTED MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS Land of Enchantment, Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA 2021 Installation, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA 2021 Mine Moonlight Group Exhibition, Museum of American Glass, Millville, NJ 2016
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS What Is Left Behind, Kismet, Philadelphia, PA 2018 4th Wall Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA 2011 Darla Jackson vs. Anne Canfield, Bebe Benoliel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2009 The Other Woman, Kelly & Weber Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA 2007 In A Dream, The Galleries at Moore, Philadelphia, PA 2006
SELECTED THREE AND FOUR PERSON EXHIBITIONS Collectively Speaking: Then and Now, The Galleries at Moore, Phila, PA 2010 Stripped to the Teeth, The Toothless Cat Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2010 Playmate, James Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2010 Petit Fours, Arcadia Boutique, Philadelphia, PA 2009 The Other Woman Collective, Urban Outfitters, Philadelphia, PA 2008 Debutante Set, Mew Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2007
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Inliquid Benefit, Crane Building, Philadelphia, PA (also ’11-’20) 2021 9 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia, PA (also ‘18-20) 2021 Birds for Sofia, Sugarlift Gallery, New York, NY 2020 Luxe Paws, Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2020 Small Wonders, Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia, PA (also ‘14, ’17-’19) 2020 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Paradigm Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2020 Assemblage, Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, PA 2020 Special Delivery, Beekman 1802, Sharon Springs, NY 2020 No Cure for Mourning, Stockton University Art Gallery, Pomona, NJ 2019 The Fire Thief, Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE 2019 The Emotional Animal, The Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY 2019
The Chalkboard Chronicles, The Art Yard, Frenchtown, NJ 2019 Locals Only, Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2019 Remembered, Paradigm Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2018 Imagined, Antler Gallery, Portland, OR 2018 85th Annual Awards Exhibition, Brookgreen Gardens, Murrels Inlet, SC 2018 Summer Exhibition, Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2018 Faculty Exhibition, Fleisher Art Memorial, Phila, PA (also ’06-’07, ’09-’17) 2018 As Above, So Below II, Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2018 6 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2018 Collective Action, Philadelphia, PA 2017 All that Remains, Stranger Factory, Albuquerque, NM 2016 Beauty Mark, Crawford Campus Center Gallery, Newtown Square, PA 2016 Methods of Collection, Esther Klein Gallery, Philadelphia PA 2016 Realist, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh NY 2015 Inliquid Group Exhibition, Commerce Square, Philadelphia, PA 2015 Un/Natural, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2014 Animals, LBI Foundation of Arts and Sciences, Loveladies, NJ 2014 A Precious Few, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ 2014 Eons Beyond the Rib, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2014 Winter Exhibition, Jeffrey Meier Gallery, Lambertville, NJ 2013 Small Works, Philadelphia Sculpture Gym, Philadelphia, PA 2013 Dialogues and Correspondence, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2013 Out of Bounds, Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Phila, PA 2012 Wild at Heart, Thinkspace Gallery, Culver City, CA 2012 Freak Antique; Contemporary Art Curios, DCCA, Wilmington, DE 2012 Characteristically Etsy, Bold Room, Berlin 2012 I Am Not Animal, UD@Crane, Philadelphia, PA 2012 Picks of the Harvest 2012, Thinkspace Gallery, Culver City, CA 2012 Spirit Board, Loved to Death, San Francisco, CA 2011 Autumn Spell, Gallery 309, Philadelphia, PA 2011 Animal Show, Pterodactyl Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA (also 2010) 2011 CFEVA 9th Annual Benefit, Center for Architecture, Philadelphia, PA 2011 Anatomy Now, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2011 Faculty Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2010 Stephen Starr Pop Up Restaurant curated by Eileen Tognini, Philadelphia, PA 2010 On the Rise, The Gallery at City Hall, Philadelphia, PA 2010 It’s who you know, Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2010 Stuffed, Wagner Free Institute of Science , Philadelphia, PA 2010 Artist Interventions, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA 2010 Opening Exhibition, The Graphic Art Room, Tremelo, Belgium 2009 POST Exhibition during the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Philadelphia, PA 2009 inSitu:628, Exhibition curated by Eileen Tognini, Philadelphia, PA 2009 My Dog Speaks, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2009 Contemporary Voices, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA 2009 White Hot, Bahdeebahdu, Philadelphia, PA 2008 Perspectives, The Icebox, Crane Arts Building, Philadelphia, PA 2008 Footsteps, Moore College of Art / The Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, PA 2008 POST Group Exhibition, curated by Eileen Tognini, Philadelphia,PA (also ‘07) 2008 DogHaus, SPCA Fundraiser Exhibition, Edgcumbe House, Chestnut Hill, PA 2008 Far Away from the Beginning, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 2008 Old School, Uppercase Gallery, Alberta, Canada 2008 Take Issue, Washington Square, Washington, D.C. 2008 Philadelphia Selections, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA 2008 Natural Selection, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD 2008
Relics, Myths and Yarn, Schuylkill Center, Philadelphia, PA 2008 Sculpture: New Work/New Artists, Riverbank Arts, Stockton, NJ 2007 Icebox: 23 Degrees, Crane Arts Building, Philadelphia, PA 2007 En Masse, Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA 2007 Seeing Double, Afif Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2006 For the Birds/ Show Us What You’re Hiding, Studio C, Philadelphia, PA 2005 Seeing Red, Studio C, Philadelphia, PA 2005 One Year Anniversary Exhibition, Qbix Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2005 Extinct/Extant, Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Phila, PA 2004 Open-Ended Affair, Washington Square, Washington, D.C. 2004 The Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, PA 2003
SELECTED PRESS/REVIEWS Dead Birds and The Art of Darla Jackson, Being an Artist with Tom Judd 2021 Art Makes People Blog, Darla Jackson’s Beautiful Dead Birds (February 7th) 2021 Root Quarterly, The Animals: Vol 1, Issue 1, ART//Inside the mind of Darla Jackson by Sarah Rose Etter 2019 Voloshin Woman: Darla Jackson, Voloshin Blog (August 29, 2019) 2019 Billy Penn, Long live print? Two new arts and culture mags hit Philly this year (June 15, 2019) 2019 Greenwich Time, Clay Art Center exhibit explores animals as metaphor for human nature (July 12, 2019) 2019 Beautiful Bizarre, Top 100 Sculptors of 2018 on Instagram (Dec 10, 2018) 2018 Moore College of Art, Alumni Darla Jackson’s Public Art Installation (October 25, 2018) 2018 Beautiful Bizarre, Darla Jackson: Sculpting Reflections of Human Emotion (Sept 25, 2018) 2018 Mainline Media News, Original artwork prominent in the ambience at King of Prussia’s Founding Farmers (February 19, 2018) 2018 Technically Philly, Knight Arts: Sculpture Gym awarded $25k to expand Workshops (May 13, 2014) 2014 Knight Arts Blog, Seraphin’s mix of representation, symbolism and styles (December 9) 2013 Moore Magazine (Fall 2013) 2013 American Craft Magazine, Grand and Mysterious (June/July 2012) 2012 Grid Magazine, Open Shop (June 2012) 2012 Hi-Fructose Blog, The Art of Darla Jackson (October 20, 2011) 2011 Flying Kite Media, How to make it in Philly as a Sculptor (September 27) 2011 WHYY, Knight Foundation grants draw artists of every stripe (Jan 20) 2011 Daily News, 63 Artists in the running for arts funding (Jan 20, 2011) 2011 Artinbars.com, Ask an Artist: Darla Jackson, (September 9, 2010) 2010 The Philadelphia Inquirer, Debut of New Gallery at City Hall (June 17) 2010 Philadelphia City Paper, Arts Picks: A Miniature Ocean (June 25), p.24 2009 Philadelphia Weekly, A Miniature Ocean (June 24, 2009), p. 20 2009 Inquirer, Galleries: Peering into the darker side of the animal world (May 31) 2009 Philadelphia City Paper, Last Chance: Catch it or Regret it (June 2, 2009) 2009 ICAphila.org, ICA Curatorial Hot Picks: My Dog Speaks (May 2009) 2009 Philadelphia Weekly, Animal Collective (May 19, 2009) 2009 Theartblog.org, My Dog Speaks at Seraphin Gallery (May 20, 2009) 2009 Moore News, Alumnae Notes (Spring 2009), pp. 32-33 2009 Uppercase Magazine, Issue 1, Dark Surprise (April 2009) 2009 Philadelphia Sculptors Newsletter, PS Member on View (Spring 2009)p. 7 2009 DoN ArT NeWs, Darla Jackson vs. Anne Canfield (January 31, 2009) 2009 ReadyMade. Novel Ideas (December 2008/January 2009) p. 18 2008 The Philadelphia Inquirer, Arts & Entertainment (December 14, 2008) 2008
The Philadelphia Inquirer, New Salons: Home is where the art is (Oct 17) 2008 Philadelphia City Paper, POST (October 9-16, 2008) 2008 Art Matters, POST: Philadelphia Open Studio Tours (October 2008) 2008 The Philadelphia Inquirer, Boots NOT made for walking (November 13) 2008 Old School, Published by Uppercase Gallery 2008 The Philadelphia Inquirer, Making the Ordinary Absorbing (April 4, 2008) 2008 Artknowledgenews.com, The Schuylkill Center Spins Tales (Feb 2008) 2008 Artdaily.org, Schuylkill Center Spins Tales with Relics, Myths & Yarn (Feb) 2008 Dailycandy.com, Paper doll (January 9, 2008) 2008 Darla Jackson Sculpture 2007 Catalog 2007 Mid Atlantic Arts News Website, The Other Woman (Nov 14, 2007) 2007 Philadelphia City Paper, Catch it or Regret it (Nov 1-8, 2007) p. 59 2007 The Clog, It’s beginning to look like Autumn (Nov 2, 2007) 2007 Manufactured Dissent, Online arts magazine, The Other Woman (October 3)2007 Moore News, A Gallery of Their Own, (Fall 2007) pp.18-19 2007 201 Gallery Video by David Kessler, (October 2007) 2007 The Beacon, Riverbank to feature Sculpture (August 30, 2007) p. 8A 2007 Key to Philadelphia, Center City Gallery Hop (April 9 – 22, 2007) 2007 Philamuseum.org, 20th Annual Gary Long Memorial Lecture (March 15) 2007 Geoclan.com, An Interview with Darla Jackson (March 2006) 2006 Theartblog.org, The home shows (March 22, 2005) 2005 Philadelphia Weekly, Human Nature (August 4, 2004) 2004
SELECTED AWARDS The Jane B. Armstrong Memorial Award, National Sculpture Society 2018 Rad Awards: Artist of the Year, Rad Girls 2015 Knight Arts Grant, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation 2014 Knight Arts Challenge Grant, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation 2011 Ellen Lee Walker Amelia Prize, Woodmere Art Museum 2009 Best in Show, Washington Square 2008 Best in Show, Afif Gallery 2006 3rd Place Professional Sculpture Category, Community Arts Center 2003 2nd Place, Art Association of Harrisburg 2003 3rd Place and Director’s Award, Community Arts Center 2003
HONORS Top 100 Sculptors of 2018, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine 2018 Featured Artist for Made in Philadelphia Campaign Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA 2013 Honorable Mention Art vs. Design Competition, New York, NY 2009 Accepted into CFEVA Fellows Program Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA 2007 Accepted into the XXV National Sculpture Competition Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2003
TEACHING APPOINTMENTS Sculpture Adjunct, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2010-11, Present Sculpture Faculty, The Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA 2008-Present Sculpture Adjunct, Stockton University Pomona, NJ 2009-Present Sculpture Adjunct, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA 2020 Sculpture Adjunct, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2011-2013 Sculpture Faculty, The Community Arts Center, Wallingford, PA 2003–2004
JUROR 92nd Phillips' Mill Art Show, New Hope, PA 2021 Annual Members Exhibition, Lehigh Valley Art Alliance 2019 Sculpture 2014 - Annual Exhibition, New Hope Arts 2014 Knight Arts Challenge, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation 2013
AFFILIATIONS PAFA Belonging Committee, Adjunct Member 2020-Present Philadelphia Sculptors, Board Member 2019- Present PAFA Faculty Committee, Adjunct Representative 2017-Present The Philadelphia Sculpture Gym, Owner/CEO 2011-2016 Philadelphia Sculptors, Steering Committee/Artist Member 2002-2012 The Other Woman Collective, Co-founder/Artist member 2006-2011
COMMISSIONS Squirrels, Private Client, Philadelphia, PA 2021 Condors, The Civic, Philadelphia, PA 2019 Pegasus, Founding Farmers Restaurant, Washington, DC 2018 Pink Goats and Soldier Rabbits, Founding Farmers Restaurant, KOP, PA 2017 Ice Cream Molds, Franklin Fountain, Philadelphia, PA 2017 Dog, Alex Dacorte, Philadelphia, PA 2015 Award for Happy Fernandez, CFEVA, Philadelphia, PA 2013 Anvil Commission, Mother Bethel AME Church, Philadelphia, PA 2010 Footsteps Commission, Moore College of Art & Design 2008 Marsh Wren on Cattail Commission, Charles Morgan, Princeton, NJ 2006
SELECTED LECTURES Metal forging demonstration, The Barnes Foundation, Phila., PA (also ‘19) 2021 The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA 2018 Kismet Coworking, Philadelphia, PA 2018 Founding Farmers, King of Prussia, PA 2018 The Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA 2017 The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA (also ‘12) 2016 The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ 2016 Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA 2015 University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2014 Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA (also ‘11) 2014 Philadelphia Sculpture Gym, Philadelphia, PA 2014 PAFA, Philadelphia, PA 2014 Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 2010 The Richard J. Stockton College, Pomona, NJ 2008 Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, PA 2008 Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD 2008 Kelly & Weber Fine Art (201 Gallery), Philadelphia, PA 2007 Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA 2007
WORKSHOPS Fleisher Art Memorial and PA Ballet, Spread your Wings Workshop 2020 Philly Art Center, Philadelphia, PA (also 2018) 2019 Fleisher Art Memorial, Art for the Healer, Jefferson Medical Students (2018) 2019
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Jean Athan Phillipa Ashby & Malik Benin Thinkspace Gallery Erin Morgenstern Charles Morgan Dina & Jerry Wind Deborah M. League Moore College of Art Frances Graham Etsy Berlin
Eileen Tognini Deborah Yoder Rich & Cissy Padgham Maida Malone
EDUCATION BFA, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA 2003 Major: Sculpture, Summa Cum Laude, Departmental Honors