Oliver Lee Jackson

**Oliver Lee Jackson** (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la yuuni 1935) nyɛla Americanima nuchee ni baŋda ŋun tuma tooi jɛndi pɛntibu ka lahi nyɛ shikuru baŋda. O nuchee ni tuma duu nyɛla din be Oakland, California. O daa nyɛla baŋda zaŋ n-ti California State University, Sacramento bin din gbaai yuuni 1971 zaŋ hali ni yuuni 2002 ka daa nam bɔhimbu yaɣa zaŋ n-ti Pan African Studies shikuru ŋɔ.

## Piligu biɛhigu mini shikuru baŋsim
O nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so yuuni 1935 tiŋ yuli booni St. Louis, Missouri, African American daŋ ni. Din daa niŋ ka o daa naai Vashon High School nyaaŋa, Jackson nyɛla ŋun daa chaŋ Illinois Wesleyan University (B.F.A. 1958). O nyɛla ŋun daa tum United States Army ka daa che lala tuma ŋɔ yuuni 1961. O nyɛla ŋun chaŋ University of Iowa (M.F.A. 1963).

## Wuhibu
Yuuni 1960s, o nyɛla ŋun daa wuhi nuchee ni baŋsim yaɣili St. Louis local universitinima mini collagɛnima. 

## Nuchee ni baŋsim tuma
Jackson’s tumanima nyɛla din be "museum collections" zaŋ n-ti Museum of Modern Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Studio Museum in Harlem; National Gallery of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; San Jose Museum of Art; Seattle Art Museum; and many other public collections.

## Exhibitions
### Solo
* 1979 – *Oliver Jackson,* Bixby Gallery, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri
* 1982 – *Oliver Lee Jackson*, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
* 1983 – *Oliver Lee Jackson*, Matrix Gallery, UC Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California
* 1990 – *Currents 43: Oliver Jackson*, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
* 1993 — *New California Art: Oliver Jackson*, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
* 1993 – *Oliver Jackson: Works on Paper*, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
* 2002 — *Duo*, Sert Gallery, Carpenter Center for the Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
* 2017 – *Oliver Lee Jackson: Composed*, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California
* 2019 – *Oliver Lee Jackson: Recent Paintings*, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
* 2021–2022 – *Oliver Lee Jackson–Any Eyes*, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, California
* 2021–2022 – *Oliver Lee Jackson*, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri

### Group
* 1976 – *Other Sources: An American Essay*, curated by Carlos Villa, including Ruth Asawa, Bernice Bing, Rolando Castellón, Claude Clark, Robert Colescott, Frank Day, Rupert García, Mike Henderson, Oliver Jackson, Frank LaPena, Linda Lomahaftewa, George Longfish, Ralph Maradiaga, José Montoya, Manuel Neri, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Darryl Sapien, Raymond Saunders, James Hiroshi Suzuki, Horace Washington, Al Wong, René Yañez, Leo Valledor, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
* 1983 — *1983 Biennial Exhibition*, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
* 1984 – *An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture*, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
* 1987 – *The Ethnic Idea*, curated by Andrée Maréchal-Workman, including Lauren Adams, Robert Colescott, Dewey Crumpler, Mildred Howard, Oliver Lee Jackson, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Joe Sam, Elisabeth Zeilon, Tom Holland, Celeste Conner, Jean LaMarr, Sylvia Lark, Leta Ramos, Judy Foosaner, Joseph Goldyne, Belinda Chlouber, Carlos Villa. Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California
* 1989 — *The Appropriate Object*, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, with travel to Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California; and Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
* 1994 — *The Exchange Show: San Francisco/Rio de Janeiro*, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California, and Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
* 1994 – *Continuing the Legacy of the Rockefeller Collection: Recent Acquisitions of 20th Century American Art*, including Joan Brown, Wayne Thiebaud, Manuel Neri, Robert Arneson, Oliver Lee Jackson, Frank Lobdell. De Young Museum, San Francisco, California
* 2016 — *Dimensions of Black*, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, California, and Manetti Shrem Museum, University of California, Davis, California
* 2020 — *Expanding Abstraction: Pushing the Boundaries of Painting in the Americas*, including Alice Baber, Ibore Camargo, Fernando de Szyszlo, Helen Frankenthaler, Manuel Hernández Gómez, Grace Hartigan, Hans Hofmann, Dorothy Hood, Norman Lewis, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Miguel Ocampo, Jules Olitski, Beverly Pepper, and Alma Thomas. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, Texas

## Kundivihira

## External links
* Oliver Lee Jackson papers, 1993-2016, from Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution