Matthew Jesse Jackson

Biography

Matthew Jesse Jackson teaches courses grounded primarily in the contemplation of cultural experience since 1945.  Jackson’s most recent monograph, Il’ia i Emiliia Kabakovy: Gde nashe mesto? [Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Where Is Our Place?] (Moscow: Breus Foundation, 2019), presents a comprehensive Russian-language survey of Russia’s most famous living artists.  Jackson is also the editor and co-translator from the Russian of Ilya Kabakov: On Art (University of Chicago Press, 2018), the definitive collection of Kabakov’s writings in English, and the author of The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes (University of Chicago Press, 2010; new paperback edition, 2016), winner of the Robert Motherwell Book Award from The Dedalus Foundation for outstanding publication in the history and criticism of modernism in the arts, as well as the Vucinich Book Prize for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies; the prize citation reads, in part: “Matthew Jesse Jackson's The Experimental Group is an engaging, beautifully written, and erudite study of unofficial Soviet art. It provides brilliant readings of numerous individual drawings, albums, mixed media work, and installations…[T]his monumental study of creativity in and after the late Soviet period is a remarkable scholarly achievement.” The volume was also named runner-up for Book of the Year in art history and criticism at the American Publishers (PROSE) Awards and placed on the short list for Book of the Year by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL). Jackson earned a Ph.D. in History of Art from the University of California, Berkeley, thanks to Anne M. Wagner and T.J. Clark, and is also A.B.D. in Russian Literature, having been awarded M.Phil. and M.A. degrees from Columbia University, where he studied as a President’s Fellow. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa summa cum laude with a B.A. in French and German from the Florida State University.

Publications

“The Emperor of the Post-Medium Condition,” in Theaster Gates: 12 Ballads for Huguenot House (Koln: Konig, 2012)

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“Our Literal Speed,” Shifter Magazine 18 (2012) Produced by Our Literal Speed

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Preview, “Joseph Beuys: Appeal for an Alternative,” Artforum International (October 2012)

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“Our Literal Speed,” M/E/A/N/I/N/G On-Line, Issue #5, 25th Anniversary Issue (November 2011) Produced by Our Literal Speed

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Review of Charles Harrison, Since 1950: Art and Its Criticism. CAA Reviews (July 2011) Produced by Our Literal Speed

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“The Future’s Style,” in Adventures in the Soviet Imaginary: Soviet Children’s Books and Graphic Art  (Joseph Regenstein Library: Chicago, 2011)

 

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Preview, “Irina Nakhova: Rooms,” Artforum International (May 2011)

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Preview, “Mladen Stilinovic,” Artforum International (January 2011)

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Preview, “Nedko Salakov: All In Order With Exceptions,” Artforum International (September 2011)

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Review of Piotr Piotrowski, In the Shadow of Yalta: Art and the Avant-Garde in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989. Slavonic & East European Review (January 2011)

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Profiles

Andrei Pop
Andrei Pop
Modern Art and Aesthetics
Department Chair
CWAC 162 | Tuesdays 1-2pm or by appointment.
773.702.0278
Niall Atkinson
Niall Atkinson
Medieval and Renaissance Architecture and Urban History
CWAC 260
773.702.0270
Wei-Cheng Lin
Wei-Cheng Lin
Chinese Art and Architecture
Architectural Studies Advisor
CWAC 268 | Office Hours: Wednesdays 9-10am and 12-1pm
773.702.0268
2006-07
Iowa State University
Assistant Professor, East Asian Art and Architecture
Potters Wheel
Richard Neer
Ancient Greek Art and Architecture
CWAC 259
773.702.5890
Megan Sullivan
Megan Sullivan
Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art
CWAC 272
773.702.5126