Deborah Jack
b. 1970, Rotterdam, Netherlands
lives in Cole Bay, St. Maarten and Jersey City, NJ
Deborah Jack is a multidisciplinary artist based between St. Maarten and Jersey City whose work includes video installation, photography, and text. Her practice engages a variety of strategies for mining the intersections of histories, cultural memory, ecology, and climate change.
Her work was featured in the exhibition “Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s-Today” at the MCA Chicago and the ICA Boston in Fall 2023. In Fall 2021, a retrospective, “Deborah Jack: 20 Years,” was presented at Pen + Brush in New York City. Her work is in the collections of the MCA Chicago and the Smith College Museum of Art. Deborah is the recipient of a 2023 Soros Arts Fellowship; a 2022 Jersey City Individual Artist Grant; and a 2021 Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists. She is a 2023 Changing Climate Resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute and a Surf Point Foundation artist-in-residence. Deborah is currently a Professor of Art at New Jersey City University.
