Matthew Jesse Jackson
Contact Information
262 Cochrane-Woods Art Center
5540 South Greenwood Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
773.702.5134
mjjacksn@uchicago.edu
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley - Contemporary, Postwar European, Soviet and Russian art. Research interests include the theory and practice of the Euro-American historical and neo-avant--gardes; conceptual art; the history of art history; management and performance art; the collaborative and the collective in the contemporary artworld; Americanization and critical theory.
Selected Publications
- The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming
- "The Quick and the Dead at the WalkrArt Center," Artforum International (November 2009), 218-219.
- “The Category of ‘Contemporary Art’ is Not New…” October 130 (Fall 2009), 84-87.
- “Transcript of a Conversation in David Schutter’s Studio, 4 October 2008,” in David Schutter: Repertory (Chicago: Tony Wight Gallery, 2008), 53-57.
- Review of Boris Groys, Art Power, Bookforum (June/July/August 2008), 62.
- “Never Bring a Labor-Saving Device to a Labor-Saturated Place: On Catherine Sullivan’s Triangle of Need,” on Adaptation website (Chicago: Smart Art Museum, 2008).
- “Slow Difficulty: An Exchange with Charles Harrison,” InterReview 9 (fall 2007), 1-8.
- “Conversations with God,” in The State of Art Criticism, James Elkins and Michael Newman, eds. (New York and London: Routledge, 2007), pp. 328-331.
- “Continuing Aesthetic Education,” in Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: The Center of Cosmic Energy, Amy Ingrid Schlegel, ed. (Tufts University Art Museum/DAP: New York, 2007), pp. 28-37.
- “Para-Performative Practices and Late Modernism: On Contemporary Art and the Museum,” Museum International, volume 59, number 3 (September 2007), 41-51.
- “Slow Difficulty: An Exchange with Charles Harrison,” InterReview 9 (fall 2007), 1-8.
- “The Greatest Artist of the Twentieth Century?” BlackBook Magazine (October/November, 2006).
- “Managing the Avant-Garde,” New Left Review (March/April 2005), 105-116; appears in Spanish translation as “La gestión de la vanguardia,” New Left Review 32 (May/June 2005); in Turkish translation as “Avangardi Yönetmek” in New Left 2005: Turkiye Seckisi (London: Verso, 2006); a revised version appears in The Uncertain States of America Reader, Brian Shollis and Noah Horowitz, eds. (New York: Sternberg Press, 2006), 52-59, and Other Worlds: Selections from New Left Review 4, Susan Watkins, ed.(Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2006).
- “Alternative Artists AT ‘Alternative’ Institutions,” in An Alternative History of Art, Jill Snyder, ed. (Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art/DAP, 2005), pp. 211-213.
- “Rachel Harrison,” CAA Reviews (April 2005).