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EXHIBITIONS
2025
2025 New River Art Juried Biennial, Moss Art Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
(Curated by Michael Rooks, Senior Curator, High Museum, Atlanta, GA.)
A Constellation of BLACKTIVISTS, Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, Charlottesville, VA* (Curated by Dr. Andrea Douglas, Executive Director and the Artist.)
A Constellation of Blackness, Daura Museum of Art, Univ of Lynchburg, Lynchburg, VA*
(Curated by Brooke Marcy, Director.)
2024
A Constellation of Blackness, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA*
LANGUAGES OF INVISIBILITY, DEVALUATION, AND TRIUMPH, UVA School of Architecture, Campbell East Wing Gallery, Charlottesville, VA*
2023
Black Joy Is: Ferocious, Fearless, Forever, Female, For Me, North and South Galleries, V. Earl Dickinson Building/Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, VA.
The Burden of Invisibility, The Arts Center in Orange, Orange, VA.*
The First 10yrs, Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento, CA.
(Curated by Liv Moe, Founding Director, and Amy Greer, Deputy Director.)
InLight 2023: Reflection and Refraction, Richmond, Virginia’s Downtown Arts District, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA. (Curated by Dr. Tiffany E. Barber and Ra-Twoine Fields.)
2022
Experience Black Love: Illuminated, Cassell Coliseum/Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA. (Curated by Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology, Virginia Tech.)
Lay My Burdens Down, McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA.
(Curated by The Charlottesville Black Arts Collective.)
Buoyant Oracle: A Sculpture That Talks Back, Playful City Lab in collaboration with Sue Wrbican and Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art, Reston, VA.
(Curated by Sue Wrbican, Artist.)
Projecting Revolution!, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM.
(Site specific artwork.)*
Let There Be Light, Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, VA.
(Curated by Fenella Belle, Associate Professor.)
2021
Personal Histories: Work by 2021 AYP AIR Artists, Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento, CA. (Curated by Liv Moe, Founding Director, and Amy Greer, Deputy Director.)
The Burden of Invisibility, 536 Gallery/Danville Museum of Fine Arts & History, Danville, VA. (Curated by Elsabe Dixon, Executive Director.)*
Let There Be Light, Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, VA.
(Curated by Fenella Belle, Associate Professor and James Yates.)
Water: The Agony & Ecstasy of the Black Experience, McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA. (Curated by The Charlottesville Black Arts Collective.)
See Me!, Bower Center for the Arts, Bedford, VA.
Seedtime on the Cumberland; Music Festival, Art and Poetry Exhibition, Appalshop, Inc, Whitesburg, KY.
2020
That’s Pops’s Money, Chroma Projects Gallery at Vault Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
(Curated by Deborah McLeod, Gallery and Exhibition Director.)*
2019
The Burden of Invisibility, Emerging Artist Series at Riverviews Artspace, Lynchburg, VA.*
5th Biennial Community Show, Riverviews Artspace, Lynchburg, VA.
Take it to the River, FLOW: The Rivanna River Art Festival, Charlottesville, VA. Third Place for the Site Art category. (Curated by Deborah McLeod, Gallery and Exhibition Director.)
Emerging Artists, Bower Center for the Arts, Bedford, VA.
2018
Cit.i.zen.ship: Reflections On Rights, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY.
(Curated by Dr. Deborah Willis, Professor and Lori Novak, Professor, Department of Photography & Imaging.)
10th Annual Juried Art Show, Riverviews Artspace, Lynchburg, VA.
(Guest curated by Terence Washington, National Gallery of Art.)
In Memoriam: For Those Who Labored for His Happiness..., FLOW: The Rivanna River Art Festival, Charlottesville, VA. (Curated by Deborah McLeod, Gallery and Exhibition Director.)
*Solo/One-person exhibitions
RESIDENCIES + FELLOWSHIPS + GRANTS + WORKSHOPS
2025
Resistance, Remembrance, and Radical Celebration Workshop, Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, Charlottesville, VA (August 9, 2025)
2024
VisArts Exhibiting Artist-In-Residence, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA
(January through August, 2024)
2023
Book Arts Center Residency, Virginia Center for the Book, Virginia Humanities, Charlottesville, VA
(April 1 -July 31)
2022
Revolution International Thematic Residency Program, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
(August 29 - November 18)
Studio Residency Grant, Artist in Residence, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
(May 2 - June 25)
2021
The Ali Youssefi Project WAL Artist in Residence, Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento, CA
(January 6 - March 31)
VMFA Professional Fellowship, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
2020
Artist in Residence, Danville Museum of Fine Arts & History, Danville, VA (December 1 - 31)
Jacque and Natasha Gelman Fellowship for African American or Latinx Artists, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA (January 2 – February 2)
VMFA Emergency Relief Fund Fellowship, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Appalshop Creator’s Fund, Appalshop, Inc, Whitesburg, KY
2018
Equal Justice International Thematic Residency Program, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM (September 5 - November 24)
2016
YBCA Freedom Fellow: Public Square, Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, San Francisco, CA
(December 15 - February 18, 2017)
2015
Wattis Institute Research Fellow, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
(September 21, 2015 - April 11, 2016)
COLLECTIONS
2021
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
2020
Virginia Center for the Book, Virginia Humanities, Charlottesville, VA
COMMISSIONS
2021
4,578 (4.578), Custom designed tapestry (5 x 18 ft.), cotton and linen woven on an industrial loom, Fugger and Welser Adventure Museum, Augsburg, Germany.
MEDIA APPEARANCES: Podcasts + TV + Videos
2024
A Constellation of Blackness, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA
2022
Virginia Humanities Impact Story, Virginia Humanities, Charlottesville, VA
2021
Studio Shorts with Veronica Jackson, The Open Call Podcast Season 2, Episode 1: Co-hosted by Laura Tanner & Anne Stagg, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
2020
Conversations: Unprecedented (Again), Santa Fe Art Institute’s 35th Anniversary Inaugural Alumni Event, Santa Fe, NM
The Art Scene, PBS Affiliate, Richmond, VA
2017
SFAI140, Equal Justice Resident Artist presentation, Santa Fe, NM
Select Print Media
2025
Five Questions with Veronica Jackson, by California College of the Arts, Alumni Spotlight Series
2024
LANGUAGES OF INVISIBILITY, DEVALUATION, AND TRIUMPH, by UVA School of Architecture, Event Recap
Art series portrays history, experiences of Black women in the US, by Hazel Hoffman, The Commonwealth Times, The Independent Press of Virginia Commonwealth University
2023
Veronica Jackson explores her experiences as a Black Woman in America through visual art, by Grace Lee, Massachusetts Daily Collegian
Veronica Jackson & Black Joy Is…, by Jessica Harris, Vinegar Hill Magazine
2020
Making the Invisible Visible, by Nora Pehrson, Views Magazine/Virginia Humanities
SYMPOSIUMS + TALKS + PANEL DISCUSSIONS + WORKSHOPS
2025
A Constellation of BLACKTIVISTS, Text-Collage Workshop, Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, Charlottesville, VA.
This Woman’s Work: Rendering Labor Through the Lens of a Black Female Artist, Black Employee Network, R/GA, USA.
2024
Dean’s Forum on Inclusion + Equity, in conversation with Dr. Andrea Douglas and Dr. Andrea Roberts. UVA School of Architecture, Campbell Hall, Charlottesville, VA.
2023
Black Joy Is: Ferocious, Fearless, Forever, Female, For Me, Exhibition Walkthrough, Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, VA.
A Constellation of Blackness: Rendering Invisibility, Hypervisibility, Devaluation, and Triumph As A Black Woman in America, Evening Lecture, Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, VA.
In conversation: Veronica Jackson (Visual Artist-The Burden of Invisibility), Allison James (Memorialization Project Director, Montpelier Descendants Committee, James Madison's Montpelier), and Anna Pillow (Executive Director, The Arts Center in Orange) discuss the intersections of contemporary art and historic places. The Arts Center in Orange, Orange, VA.
A Constellation of Blackness: Design Thinking As A Black Woman, Visual Artists, and Public Historian, UMass Amherst Public History Lecture, Department of History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
2022
Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, Bonn, Germany, “New Perspectives on Cultural Heritage and German Global History,” Panel title: “Interpreting the Fugger and Welser Manillas: The Language and Currency of Slavery’s Global Industry”
Bower Center for the Arts Cultural Reflection Discussion Series, Bedford, VA, “SEE ME! Visualizing Invisibility, Hypervisibility, Devaluation and Triumph by Black Woman Artists”
2021
University of Würzburg, American Studies Department, Würzburg, Germany, “Colonial Pasts and Cultures of Memory: How to Deal with a Nation’s Past in the Present: A Conversation with Cheryl Finley (USA), Veronica Jackson (USA), and Rushay Booysen (South Africa)” (online event)
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Canvas Members host VMFA Fellowship Program
Panel Discussion, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Rosel Schewel Fund Advisory Committee, Virginia Humanities, Guest Speaker, (online event)
Rosel Schewel Fundraising Committee, Virginia Humanities, Charlottesville, VA, Guest Speaker
2020
Shelf Life Series, Virginia Center for the Book, Virginia Humanities, Charlottesville, VA, “Exhibit A: Visualizing Art, Agency, and an African American Attitude” (online event)
2019
International Symposium at Volkswagenstiftung, Hannover, Germany,
“In/Visibility and Opacity: Cultural Productions by African and African Diasporic Women”
American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, “Build As We Fight.”
Panel title: “Landscapes of [In]visibility”
A Conversation with Veronica Jackson, hosted by Virginia Humanities in conjunction with Jackson’s inaugural exhibition, The Burden of Invisibility at Riverviews Artspace,
Lynchburg, VA
2018
Black Portraiture[s] IV: The Color of Silence at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA,
“Landscapes of Invisibility”
College Art Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, “Performing Authenticity”
2017
Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies, University of Mainz, Germany,
“From Abolition to Black Lives Matter: Past and Present Forms of Transnational Resistance”
EDUCATION
MA in Visual and Critical Studies, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
BS in Architecture, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA