AYANA VELLISSIA JACKSON

Ayana@avjphotography.com, www.avjphotography.com,

EDUCATION

1995-1999 Spelman College

Summer 2005 Sieverding at Universitat der Kunst, Berlin, Germany

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008

Looking Glass Self, Peter Hermann Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2007

African by Legacy, Mexican by Birth, Mijares Gallery in conjunction with UCLA, Los

Angeles, CA

2006

Viajes Personales, Bluefields Indian and Caribbean University, Bluefields, Nicaragua

African by Legacy, Mexican by Birth, Guadeloupe Arts Center, San Antonio, Texas; Galeria

de la Raza curated by San Francisco Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA;Franklyn H.

Williams Caribbean Cultural Center & African Diaspora Institute

2005

Viajes Personales, Instituto Universitario de Barlovento, Higuerote, Venezuela; Biblioteca Virgilio Barco, Bogota Colombia; UNAN-Leon, Leon, Nicaragua; Museo del Hombre, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic African By Legacy, Mexican by Birth (Series 1), Inter-America Foundation, National Council of La Raza, Inter-Agency Consultation on Race in Latin America. Washington DC

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010

The Mothership has Landed, Rush Arts, New York, NY

ECO, SEGAW, ECHO, XIANG Project Row Houses Round 32, Houston, Texas

2009

8th Bamako Encounters / African Photography Biennial, Bamako, Mali

2008

The Shoot Out: A Lonely Crusade, Homage to Jamel Shabazz, The George and Leah

McKenna Museum of African American Art, New Orleans, LA

2007

Post Millennial Black Madonna Paradise/ Inferno, Museum of Contemporary African

Diasporic Art (MoCADA) and Skylight Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2006

The Shoot Out, African American Museum, Philadelphia, PA

RESIDENCIES

Forthcoming

Light Works, Syracuse, NY,

Louisiana Art Works, New Orleans, LA,

2009

Cite International des Arts, Paris France,

New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ

2006

The Bakery Photographic Collective, Portland, Maine,

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

World Bank Collection, Washington DC

Wedge Collection, Toronto, Canada

Alcatel Lucent Foundation, New Jersey USA

PUBLICATIONS

Bamako Encounters Exhibition Catalogue, 2009

African by Legacy, Mexican by Birth exhibition catalogue, Unilan Publishing Co. 2006