Sam Jackson
Born 1977
lives and works in London
Education
2004-2007: MA Fine Art, Royal Academy Schools, London
2000-2003: BA (Hons) Fine Art (First Class), Middlesex University
Awards & Resedencies
2007 Chelsea Arts Club Travel Award
2005 Sturdley Award
2004 British Institute Award
2003–2004 Florence Trust Studio Award
Solo exhibitions
2019 Chronicles, CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London, UK
2014 Colossal Youth (Part 2) CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London, UK
2014 Colossal Youth (Part 1) VOLTA, New York, US
2011 The Fearful Joy CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London, UK
2009 Vas Deferens CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London, UK
2008 The Cabinet BRAUBACHfive, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2008 Boundaries Thomas Williams Fine Art, London, UK
Selected group exhibitions
2019 10 years, CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London, UK
Plan B, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, US
Total Eclipse of the Heart – Paintings about Women (curated by Dan Coombs),
Watson Farley & Williams, London, UK
Making and Breaking the Rules: Royal Academy 250, Russel- Cotes Art Gallery &
Museum, Bournemouth, UK
Pleaser Drive (curated by GSL Projekt and CAVE 3000, GSL Projekt, Berlin,
Germany
2018 RUN TO ME (with Derek Ridgers | curated by Faye Dowling) Galerie Heike Strelow,
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2017 RUN TO ME (with Derek Ridgers | curated by Faye Dowling) CHARLIE SMITH
LONDON, London, UK
2017 Part I: Street Semiotics (curated by Zavier Ellis) CHARLIE SMITH LONDON,
London, UK
2016 A Promise of Truth - the Contemporary Portrait Galerie Robert Drees, Berlin,
Germany
2016 Black Paintings (curated by Heike Strelow) G a lerie Heike Strelow, Frankfurt am
Main, Germany
2016 Semiotic Guerrilla Warfare (Part 2) Dean Clough, Halifax, Canada
2015 Semiotic Guerrilla Warfare (Part 1) PAPER Gallery, Manchester, UK
2015 Black Paintings CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London, UK
2015 REALITY: Modern and Contemporary British Painting (curated by Chris Stevens)
Walker Art Museum, Liverpool, UK
2015 Die English Kommen! – New Painting from London (curated by Zavier Ellis) Galerie
Heike Strelow, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2014 Idolatry CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London, UK
2014 Saatchi Gallery & Channel 4’s New Sensations and THE FUTURE CAN WAIT
(curated by Zavier Ellis, Simon Rumley & Rebecca Wilson) B1, Victoria House,
London, UK
2014 Cultus Deorum (curated by Zavier Ellis) Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2014 REALITY: Modern and Contemporary British Painting (curated by Chris Stevens)
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, UK
2013 Gallery Artists: Director’s Selection CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London, UK
2013 Saatchi Gallery & Channel 4’s New Sensations and THE FUTURE CAN WAIT
(curated by Zavier Ellis, Simon Rumley & Rebecca Wilson) B1, Victoria House,
London, UK
2013 Porträts Galerie Rigassi, Bern, CH
2012 The Id, the Ego and the Superego (curated by Zavier Ellis) BRAUBACHfive,
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2012 Saatchi Gallery & Channel 4’s New Sensations and THE FUTURE CAN WAIT
(curated by Zavier Ellis, Simon Rumley & Rebecca Wilson) B1, Victoria House,
London, UK
2012 The Serpent’s Tail Witzenhausen Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2012 Polemically Small (curated by Zavier Ellis & Edward Lucie-Smith) Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, UK
2012 The Id, the Ego and the Superego (curated by Zavier Ellis & Marcela Munteanu)
CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London, UK
2011 Saatchi Gallery & Channel 4’s New Sensations and THE FUTURE CAN WAIT
(curated by Zavier Ellis, Simon Rumley & Rebecca Wilson) B1, Victoria House,
London, UK
2011 Charlie Sierra Lima CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London, UK
2011 Everyday (curated by Tony Benn) University Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge
2011 Polemically Small (curated by Edward Lucie-Smith) Klaipeda Culture Communication
Centre, Klaipeda, Lithuania
2011 THE FUTURE CAN WAIT presents: Polemically Small (curated by Zavier Ellis,
Edward Lucie-Smith & Simon Rumley) Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, US
2011 Polemically Small (curated by Edward Lucie-Smith) Garboushian Gallery, Beverley
Hills, US
2010 Pokerface Koraalberg Contemporary Art Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2010 THE FUTURE CAN WAIT (curated by Zavier Ellis & Simon Rumley) Shoreditch
Town Hall, London, UK
2010 Polemically Small (curated by Edward Lucie-Smith) CHARLIE SMITH LONDON,
London, UK
2010 Ray Lowry London Calling Idea Generation, London, UK
2010 New British Painting (curated by Zavier Ellis & Pilvi Kalhama) Gallery Kalhama &
Piippo, Helsinki, Finland
2010 Call to Arms BRAUBACHfive, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2009 British Art Now (curated by Edward Lucie-Smith) Werkstatt Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2009 THE FUTURE CAN WAIT (curated by Zavier Ellis & Simon Rumley) Old Truman
Brewery, London, UK
2009 New London School (curated by Zavier Ellis & Simon Rumley) Galerie Schuster,
Berlin, Germany
2008 THE FUTURE CAN WAIT (curated by Zavier Ellis & Simon Rumley) Old Truman
Brewery, London, UK
2008 The Smallest Art Fair in the World Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, US
2008 A Stain upon the Silence (curated by Chris Shilling, Chris Page & Gaboy Gaynor) St.
Martins College of Art, London, UK
2008 Anticipation (curated by Kay Saatchi & Catriona Warren) Selfridges, London, UK
2008 UK Best Graduates White Box Gallery, New York, US
2008 The Past is History Part II (curated by Zavier Ellis & Simon Rumley) Changing Role
Gallery, Napoli, Italy
2008 The Past is History Part I (curated by Zavier Ellis & Simon Rumley) Changing Role
Gallery, Rome, Italy
2008 Icon (curated by Hugh Mendes) Primo Alonso Gallery, London, UK
2008 New London School (curated by Zavier Ellis & Simon Rumley) Mark Moore Gallery,
Los Angeles, US
2007 THE FUTURE CAN WAIT (curated by Zavier Ellis & Simon Rumley) Atlantis
Gallery, London, UK
2006 RA 5 Lennon Weinberg, New York, US
2006 Royal Academy Show Wisniez Castle, Krakow, Poland
2005 50 Selected artists Hollow Salon, London, UK
2004 12 Award Winners Show Florence Trust, London, UK
Bibliography
2017 RUN TO ME Exhibition Catalogue
2017 The Book of Black, Faye Dowling (ISBN 978-1786270429) Laurence King Publishing
2014 REALITY: Modern and Contemporary British Painting, Chris Stevens (ISBN 978-
1786270429) Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
2013 100 London Artists Vol. 1, Zavier Ellis & Edward Lucie-Smith iArtBook
2013 Saatchi Gallery & Channel 4’s New Sensations and THE FUTURE CAN WAIT
Exhibition Catalogue
2012 Saatchi Gallery & Channel 4’s New Sensations and THE FUTURE CAN WAIT
Exhibition Catalogue
2011 Saatchi Gallery & Channel 4’s New Sensations and THE FUTURE CAN WAIT
Exhibition Catalogue
2010 New British Painting, Timo Valjakka Artforum
2009 British Art Now, Travis Jeppesen Artforum
2009 Sexuality in Art Modern Edition.com
2008 THE FUTURE CAN WAIT Exhibition Catalogue
2008 (Jul) Saatchi after Saatchi, Ginny Dougray The Times Magazine
2007 (Oct) Oh You Pretty Things, Derwent May The Times
2007 (Aug) Guide to the Fairs, Richard Clayton Sunday Times
2007 15 Young Masters, Freire Barnes Bon International (No.12)
2007 Miser & Now (Issue 10), Q&A Miser & Now
Collections
Javier Baz, Denver
Carlos Fragoso, New York
Glen Luchford, New York
David Roberts, London
Sir Norman Rosenthal, London
Kay Saatchi, Los Angeles
Private collections in Belgium, Colombia, France, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom & United States