About Deborah Jack

Deborah Jack is a multi-disciplinary artist born in Sint Maarten and currently based out of Jersey City. She primarily works with video/sound installation, photography, painting, and text. Her practice deals with the intersection of histories, cultural memory, ecology, and climate change. Currently, her work explores nature and coastlines, investigating them as physical and metaphorical edges of an island that represent sites of arrival, departure, corrosion, trauma, and healing. Jack’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in the Caribbean, the United States, and Europe. Select shows include Relational Undercurrents, Portland Museum of Art (2019); Unsettled Landscapes, SITE Santa Fe (2015); Caribe Now, El Museo del Barrio, New York (2013); Infinite Islands, Brooklyn Museum (2007); and Tropicalisms, Jersey City Museum (2006). Her work is in the collections of the Perez Art Museum, Miami; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton. Her poetry has been published in two collections: Skin (2006) and The Rainy Season (1997). Jack has received grants and fellowships from the Soros Art Fellowship (2023), Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists (2021), and the Arts SOS Grant from the New York Foundation, among other organizations. She received her MFA from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2002. She is currently an Associate Professor of Art at New Jersey City University.