News & Installations

Oliver Lee Jackson
Solo Exhibition on View at
Lisson Gallery, Shanghai
March 7 – April 25, 2026

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Oliver Lee Jackson
Rena Bransten Gallery, 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, CA
September 6 – October 25, 2025
renabranstengallery.com

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Oliver Lee Jackson: Intimacies
Lisson Gallery, Bell Street, London, April 4–May 17, 2025
Oliver Lee Jackson and Ekow Eshun in Conversation at Lisson Gallery, April 5, 2025
www.lissongallery.com

Ekow Eshun and Oliver Lee Jackson in conversation at Lisson Gallery, London, 5 April 2025

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Oliver Lee Jackson
Andrew Kreps Gallery, 22 Cortlandt Alley (Tribeca), NY
March 7–April 11, 2025
ARTNEWS Review — https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/reviews/abstract-painting-returns-new-york-rediscoveries-1234738315/

Left: Painting 7.8.86 (1986); Right: Untitled (Marble and Wood Sculpture), 1990. Photo: Kunning Huang

Left: Untitled (Marble and Wood Sculpture), 1990; Center: Watercolor (6.29.87-III), 1987; Right: Painting (5.23.89), 1989. Photo: Kunning Huang

Paintings, left to right: Painting (1.5.88), 1988; Painting (5.23.89), 1989; Painting (5.29.89). Photo: Kunning Huang

Paintings, left to right: Painting (5.29.89), 1989; Painting (6.8.89), 1989; Painting (1.5.88), 1988. Photo: Kunning Huang

Left: Painting (12.12.84), 1984; Right: Wood Sculpture (5.90), 1990. Photo: Kunning Huang

Left: Marble Sculpture No. 3, 1983; Right: No. 9, 2017 (8.13.17). Photo: Kunning Huang

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Lisson Gallery announces representation of Oliver Lee Jackson,
in association with BLUM, Los Angeles, and Andrew Kreps Gallery, NY.
https://fadmagazine.com/2024/05/28/lisson-gallery-now-represent-oliver-lee-jackson/

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OLIVER LEE JACKSON, A JOURNEY
Five new painted steel sculptures on the High Line, New York, Western Rail Yards, through November 2024
www.thehighline.org/art/projects/oliver-lee-jackson/

Oliver Lee Jackson, Untitled I, 2024, on the High Line, June 2024. Photo by Timothy Schenck, Courtesy of the High Line.

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Oliver Lee Jackson: Machines for the Spirit
BLUM, Los Angeles, March 16–May 4, 2024
Click here for more information
Press preview March 15, 2024 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFUBG65nl2k

"Oliver Lee Jackson: Machines for the Spirit " at BLUM, March-May 2024. Hannah Mjølsnes photograph

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Oliver Lee Jackson: Works on Paper
Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, February 24–March 25, 2023

Left to right: Watercolor (8.22.89-I); Drawing (5.27.84-IV); Drawing (6.15.84) at Andrew Kreps Gallery, 2023

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Saint Louis Art Museum exhibits Painting (5.12.11), acquired from Jackson's 2021–22 exhibition at SLAM

At right: Oliver Lee Jackson, "Painting (5.12.11)," 2011, Saint Louis Art Museum Collection

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Oliver Lee Jackson receives 2023–24 Lee Krasner Award for lifetime achievement from Pollock Krasner Foundation

The Pollock Krasner Foundation of New York has honored artist Oliver Lee Jackson for his more than six decades of work with a 2023 Lee Krasner Award for lifetime achievement. In support of Lee Krasner’s mission to advance the work of visual artists, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation is honored to provide support to the growing list of nearly 5,000 PKFGrantees who have received $84 million across 79 countries to-date.

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Oliver Lee Jackson steel sculpture installed at di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa CA
Untitled [Recumbent Figure], 2022, is on extended loan from the artist. The 20-foot sculpture,
made from 1"-thick tempered steel plate, was fabricated at Capitol Iron Works in Sacramento.

Jackson with Untitled [Recumbent Figure], 2022, at di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA. Mark di Suvero sculpture is at rear.

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Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, CA acquires marble sculpture for permanent installation.

Oliver Lee Jackson, Marble Sculpture No. 1, 1983/Reworked 2022

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Oliver Lee Jackson
Andrew Kreps Gallery, 22 Cortlandt Alley, New York, NY
March 25–May 7, 2022

Oliver Lee Jackson at Andrew Kreps Gallery, March 25–May 7, 2022. Photos by Dan Bracin

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Oliver Lee Jackson: Any Eyes
di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa CA
November 19, 2021 – February 20, 2022
dirosaart.org

"Oliver Lee Jackson: Any Eyes" at di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa CA

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Oliver Lee Jackson
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
July 16, 2021–February 20, 2022
https://www.slam.org/exhibitions/oliver-lee-jackson/
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Oliver Lee Jackson in conversation with
Saint Louis Art Museum curators Simon Kelly and Hannah Klemm
Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021
https://www.slam.org/event/artist-talk-oliver-lee-jackson/
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Oliver Lee Jackson in Conversation with Harry Cooper
Senior Curator of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021
https://www.slam.org
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Read exhibition preview article in the St. Louis American
https://stlamerican.com/it-s-meant-to-move-you.article_7c138bf2-e687-11eb-bd5c-8be63f37e075.html

"Oliver Lee Jackson" at Saint Louis Art Museum. Left to right: "Sharpeville Series I," 1969-70; "Sharpeville Series VIII," 1973; "Alchemy Series I," 1975; "Painting (1.9.09)," 2009

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Oliver Lee Jackson: Vibrato
October 2 – November 27, 2021
Rena Bransten Gallery
1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco CA
Read Mark Van Proyen's review on Squarecylinder.com:
https://www.squarecylinder.com/2021/10/mark-van-proyen-on-oliver-lee-jackson/

"Oliver Lee Jackson: Vibrato" at Rena Bransten Gallery. Photo by John Janca

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Oliver Lee Jackson painting Untitled, 1977 (Sharpeville Series) in exhibition
Expanding Abstraction: Pushing the Boundaries of
Painting in the Americas, 1958–1983
The Blanton Museum, University of Texas, Austin
October 4, 2020–January 3, 2021

Left to right: Paintings by Norman Lewis, Beverly Pepper, Fernando de Szyszlo, Oliver Lee Jackson at the Blanton Museum of Art

Left to right: Paintings by Oliver Lee Jackson, Alma Thomas, Jules Olitski, Hans Hoffmann at the Blanton Museum of Art

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OOliver Lee Jackson: Force Field
September 7–November 2, 2019
Rena Bransten Gallery
1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco
Read the review in SquareCylinder.com
renabranstengallery.com

Oliver Lee Jackson, "Diptych, 2018-2019" at Rena Bransten Gallery

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National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Oliver Lee Jackson: Recent Paintings
April 14–September 15, 2019
• Oliver Lee Jackson and Harry Cooper in Conversation, Sept. 14, 2019
• Oliver Lee Jackson on PBS Newshour "Canvas," August 26, 2019 - Watch here
• View the NGA film, Oliver Lee Jackson: There is No Story
• View the exhibition tour narrated by NGA Curator Harry Cooper here
• See the artists' talk with Oliver Lake, Marty Ehrlich, A.B. Spellman and Oliver Lee Jackson (April 12, 2019)
• Read the press release here
• Read Haywood Turnipseed "Catching My Breath" on the NGA blog here
Articles: Introspective Magazine • Art & Antiques • St. Louis American
nga.gov

Times Square, New York—NGA Exhibition sponsor Morgan Stanley

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"Oliver Lee Jackson: Someplace Else," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco. Photo: Phillip Maisel

Oliver Lee Jackson: Someplace Else
March 3–April 28, 2018
Rena Bransten Gallery, 1275 Minnesota St., San Francisco CA
View the catalogue:
https://issuu.com/renabranstengallery/docs/jackson-digital-catalogue-v3-single?e=32797763/59242765
Read Maria Porges' review on squarecylinder.com: http://www.squarecylinder.com/2018/04/oliver-lee-jackson-rena-bransten/

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