Oliver Lee Jackson (b. 1935) is a painter, sculptor, and printmaker whose creations open up spaces for contemplation and interpretation, as well as encounters with seen and unseen worlds. Jackson has long engaged in freeing form and matter from the strictures and false oppositions between figuration and abstraction, preferring hybridity, ambiguity, and improvisation with his materials over fixed meanings and didacticism. Jackson's No. 1, 2016 (1.2.16), 2016 encompasses the lyrical fluidity that his practice is often known for. Though fragmented and fugitive in this case, the figure is a constant presence in all of Jackson’s work, acting as both a starting point and anchor for the marks, glimpses, moments, and motives behind each composition. The artist presents his work for the first time with Lisson Gallery at Art Basel, 2024, before his solo exhibition with the gallery in London, opening in November 2024.

Oliver Lee Jackson was born in 1935 in St. Louis, Missouri, and now lives and works in Oakland, California, USA. A part of the St. Louis collective of musicians, poets, dancers, and artists known as the Black Artists Group (known as BAG) in the late 1960s, Jackson relocated to the West Coast to be a professor of art at California State University, Sacramento, from 1971 until 2002, where he initially developed a curriculum for the Pan African Studies program. In addition to numerous collaborations with writers, musicians, and dancers, Jackson has worked on large-scale commissions and held major solo presentations at the Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (2021); di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA (2021); National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (2019); Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (2012); Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2002); Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA (1993, 1984, 1977); Seattle Art Museum (1982) among others.

Oliver Lee Jackson (b. 1935) is a painter, sculptor, and printmaker whose creations open up spaces for contemplation and interpretation, as well as encounters with seen and unseen worlds. Jackson has long engaged in freeing form and matter from the strictures and false oppositions between figuration and abstraction, preferring hybridity, ambiguity, and improvisation with his materials over fixed meanings and didacticism. Jackson's No. 1, 2016 (1.2.16), 2016 encompasses the lyrical fluidity that his practice is often known for. Though fragmented and fugitive in this case, the figure is a constant presence in all of Jackson’s work, acting as both a starting point and anchor for the marks, glimpses, moments, and motives behind each composition. The artist presents his work for the first time with Lisson Gallery at Art Basel, 2024, before his solo exhibition with the gallery in London, opening in November 2024.

Oliver Lee Jackson was born in 1935 in St. Louis, Missouri, and now lives and works in Oakland, California, USA. A part of the St. Louis collective of musicians, poets, dancers, and artists known as the Black Artists Group (known as BAG) in the late 1960s, Jackson relocated to the West Coast to be a professor of art at California State University, Sacramento, from 1971 until 2002, where he initially developed a curriculum for the Pan African Studies program. In addition to numerous collaborations with writers, musicians, and dancers, Jackson has worked on large-scale commissions and held major solo presentations at the Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (2021); di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA (2021); National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (2019); Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (2012); Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2002); Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA (1993, 1984, 1977); Seattle Art Museum (1982) among others.

Oliver Lee Jackson (b. 1935) is a painter, sculptor, and printmaker whose creations open up spaces for contemplation and interpretation, as well as encounters with seen and unseen worlds. Jackson has long engaged in freeing form and matter from the strictures and false oppositions between figuration and abstraction, preferring hybridity, ambiguity, and improvisation with his materials over fixed meanings and didacticism. Jackson's No. 1, 2016 (1.2.16), 2016 encompasses the lyrical fluidity that his practice is often known for. Though fragmented and fugitive in this case, the figure is a constant presence in all of Jackson’s work, acting as both a starting point and anchor for the marks, glimpses, moments, and motives behind each composition. The artist presents his work for the first time with Lisson Gallery at Art Basel, 2024, before his solo exhibition with the gallery in London, opening in November 2024.

Oliver Lee Jackson was born in 1935 in St. Louis, Missouri, and now lives and works in Oakland, California, USA. A part of the St. Louis collective of musicians, poets, dancers, and artists known as the Black Artists Group (known as BAG) in the late 1960s, Jackson relocated to the West Coast to be a professor of art at California State University, Sacramento, from 1971 until 2002, where he initially developed a curriculum for the Pan African Studies program. In addition to numerous collaborations with writers, musicians, and dancers, Jackson has worked on large-scale commissions and held major solo presentations at the Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (2021); di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA (2021); National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (2019); Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (2012); Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2002); Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA (1993, 1984, 1977); Seattle Art Museum (1982) among others.

Oliver Lee Jackson (b. 1935) is a painter, sculptor, and printmaker whose creations open up spaces for contemplation and interpretation, as well as encounters with seen and unseen worlds. Jackson has long engaged in freeing form and matter from the strictures and false oppositions between figuration and abstraction, preferring hybridity, ambiguity, and improvisation with his materials over fixed meanings and didacticism. Jackson's No. 1, 2016 (1.2.16), 2016 encompasses the lyrical fluidity that his practice is often known for. Though fragmented and fugitive in this case, the figure is a constant presence in all of Jackson’s work, acting as both a starting point and anchor for the marks, glimpses, moments, and motives behind each composition. The artist presents his work for the first time with Lisson Gallery at Art Basel, 2024, before his solo exhibition with the gallery in London, opening in November 2024.

Oliver Lee Jackson was born in 1935 in St. Louis, Missouri, and now lives and works in Oakland, California, USA. A part of the St. Louis collective of musicians, poets, dancers, and artists known as the Black Artists Group (known as BAG) in the late 1960s, Jackson relocated to the West Coast to be a professor of art at California State University, Sacramento, from 1971 until 2002, where he initially developed a curriculum for the Pan African Studies program. In addition to numerous collaborations with writers, musicians, and dancers, Jackson has worked on large-scale commissions and held major solo presentations at the Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (2021); di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA (2021); National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (2019); Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (2012); Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2002); Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA (1993, 1984, 1977); Seattle Art Museum (1982) among others.