Malika Jackson

MALIKA Her works have been exhibited in galleries, festivals, in group and solo shows. Received SPARK Award-2020, a six-month residency at Hyde Park Art Center ‘THE CENTER PROGRAM’. Recently completed solo show at the Hyde Park Art Center, presently showing with Sapphire and Crystals at Bridgeport Art Gallery, and the Addington Gallery. Received commissions for the Ronald McDonald Houses’ - the Ryder Cup Tournament; Solo exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center, exhibited at the Howard Brown Center, Black Clay at Chicago State, Fast Forward, Rewind: Play, HPAC, ‘From the Earth-Woman Made Gallery, Gallery D’Estees, Noyes Gallery, Museum of Science and Industry, Artopolis at the Merchandise Mart, Cliff Dwellers, and numerous other venues. Awards include honorable mention, Museum, of Science & Industry, Black Creativity; honored by the Diasporal Rhythms Art Association; art grant from the city of Chicago, design awards-Ann Brooks and Fur International Awards. Commissions for public artwork through the City of Chicago. Curator for Women’s Made Gallery and curator and coordinated ‘Cultural Connections African Art Bazaar for 25 yeas. Featured in ‘Curators of Dixon’; ‘Producing Local Color’ – Art Network in Ethnic Chicago’, by Diane Grams; ‘South Shore Current’. Jackson has taught in the Chicago Public Schools, Charter School, Community Organizations and at the Hyde Park Art Center. MFA & BFA from the School of the Art Institute, and studied at Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois. Artist tour of France and Italy completed ceramic workshop in Tuscany, Italy. BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD