Matthew Jesse Jackson

University of Chicago

9/1/2017-6/03/2018

Matthew Jesse Jackson teaches modern and contemporary art at the University of Chicago. He is editor and co-translator from Russian of Ilya Kabakov: On Art (forthcoming, University of Chicago Press, 2018), the author of The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes (University of Chicago Press, 2010, paperback 2016), as well as co-author of Vision and Communism (New Press, 2011). For the past dozen years he has been involved with Our Literal Speed, a text and art undertaking located in Selma, Alabama. His current writing project at the Clark is called Vernacular Modernism All Over the Deep South.