Robert C. Jackson

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Robert C. Jackson (b. 1964 Kinston, NC) began his career as an Electrical Engineer (BSEE’86 UD) with Motorola Communications & Electronics. In 1996 he decided to pursue an art career and has been painting full time ever since. Robert’s artwork can now be found exhibiting in galleries and museums coast to coast. Collectoions include Delaware Art Museum, Brandywine River Museum of Art, Evansville Museum of Art, History, and Sciences, South Dakota Art Museum, New Britain Museum of American Arts, The Mattatuck Museum, Seven Bridges Foundation, as well as individuals and corporations worldwide. The monograph, “Robert C Jackson: Paintings,” by Philip Eliasoph PhD was published in 2012. Robert was the author of the 2014 publication “Behind the Easel,” which explores the unique voices of 20 contemporary representational painters and became the basis for the exhibit “Truth & Vision” at the Delaware Art Museum in 2016.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024         It’s About Time, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2023         Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
2023         Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2022         Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH
2022         Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC
2021         Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
2021         Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2020         Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
2019         Evansville Museum of Arts, History, & Science, Evansville, IN
2019         Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2017         Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2016         Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
2016         Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2015         Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
2015         Samuel Owen Gallery, Nantucket, MA
2014         South Dakota Museum of Art, Brookings, SD
2014         Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2013         Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
2012         Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences, Evansville, IN (catalog)
2012         Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2012         Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
2012         Southport Galleries, Greenwich, CT
2011         Gallery Henoch, New York, NY (catalog)
2010         Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
2009         Arden Gallery, Boston, MA (catalog)
2009         Leslie Levy Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2008         Arden Gallery, Boston, MA (catalog)
2007         Wynne-Falconer Gallery, Chatham, MA (catalog)
2007         Arden Gallery, Boston, MA (catalog)
2006         Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC
2005         Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
2005         Somerhill Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
2004         Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
2003         Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC
2003         Delaware Division of the Arts, Wilmington, DE
2002         Somerhill Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
2001         Arden Gallery (Two Person), Boston, MA
2001         Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC
2000         Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2000         Somerhill Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
1998         Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC
1997         Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
1997         Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC
1997         National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023         Summer Group Show, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2023         Contemporary Classics, Kauffman Gallery, Shippensburg University, PA
2023         Winter Group Show, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2022         Amusing Still Lifes, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2021         I Love Hue, Robert Lange Studio, Charleston, SC
2021         Past | Present | Future, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2021         Still Life, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2021         Realism Invitational, MA Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2020         50 Works for 50 years, South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, ND
2020         Realism Invitational, MA Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2020         Clear Vision, Museum of Contemporary Art, Patchogue, NY
2019         Food For Thought, Louis K Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
2018         Chosen Objects, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2016         Behind the Easel, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2016         Truth & Vision, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
2015         Still Life, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2015         Window on the Devine, Gallery 1261, Denver, CO
2014         Man’s Best Friend – The Art of the Dog, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2013         National Contemporary Realism, MA Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2013         Evansville Collects: Contemporary American Still Life, Evansville Museum, Evansville, IN
2012         Centennial Exhibition, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
2011         Celebrating Four Decades of Collecting, Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, PA
2011         Realism, Pismo Gallery, Aspen, CO
2010         Reality Check, Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, PA
2010         Trompe L’Oeil, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2009         Still Life, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2009         Inaugural Inspiration, Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC
2008         The Object Project, Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
2008         Trompe L’Oeil, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2006         Salon d’Arts, Colorado History Museum, Denver, CO
2005         Food Glorious Food, Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC  
2004         Jackson 4, Delaware Art Museum Sales Gallery, Wilmington, DE
2003         Still Life, Charlene Cody Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2002         The Dog Days of Summer, Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC
1999         Still, Kougeas Gallery,  Boston, MA
1998         Realism ’98, Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg, WV,  People’s Choice Award

Education

Selected Public Collections

Videos

Selected Publications with Somerville Manning Gallery

Available at Somerville Manning Gallery

Robert C. Jackson: Paintings by Philip Eliasoph    $59.99

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