Jane Lackey is a visual artist based in Seattle. Her works on paper, paintings and installations take their form in relationship to subjects that arise from our physical systems. Neuroscience, genetics, patterns of speech and communication fuel an adaptation of materials and process, placing inner activity on the surface of mapped social space.
Lackey’s work has been shown in many group and one-person exhibitions most recently at the Reading Art Museum, Pennsylvania, Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, The Wellcome Trust in London, I Space in Chicago, Ashville Art Museum in North Carolina, Exit Art in New York City and Tang Teaching Museum in Saratoga Springs, New York. In 2005, Lackey was awarded an artist fellowship and residency at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France where she completed a project titled “map room”. She has also received artist grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Illinois Arts Council, and was awarded an artist residency in LaNapoule, France sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts in 1989. Her work is included in many private collections and in public and museum collections including the Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, Michigan; Museum of Arts and Design, New York; The Wellcome Trust, London; Bio Science Research Building, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Stowers Institute, Kansas City, Missouri; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Hallmark Fine Art Collection, Kansas City, and the James A. Michener Collection, Kent State, Ohio.
Jane Lackey was Artist in Residence and Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art between 1997 and 2007. Prior to that, she was Professor at Kansas City Art Institute. She has been visiting artist and lecturer at art schools and museums across the United States and internationally. She has written about other artists, curated exhibitions, and organized symposia. Currently she is a full time artist while working on independent projects and guest teaching. Lackey was born in Tennessee and received a BFA from California College of the Arts and a MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Lackey’s work has been shown in many group and one-person exhibitions most recently at the Reading Art Museum, Pennsylvania, Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, The Wellcome Trust in London, I Space in Chicago, Ashville Art Museum in North Carolina, Exit Art in New York City and Tang Teaching Museum in Saratoga Springs, New York. In 2005, Lackey was awarded an artist fellowship and residency at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France where she completed a project titled “map room”. She has also received artist grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Illinois Arts Council, and was awarded an artist residency in LaNapoule, France sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts in 1989. Her work is included in many private collections and in public and museum collections including the Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, Michigan; Museum of Arts and Design, New York; The Wellcome Trust, London; Bio Science Research Building, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Stowers Institute, Kansas City, Missouri; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Hallmark Fine Art Collection, Kansas City, and the James A. Michener Collection, Kent State, Ohio.
Jane Lackey was Artist in Residence and Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art between 1997 and 2007. Prior to that, she was Professor at Kansas City Art Institute. She has been visiting artist and lecturer at art schools and museums across the United States and internationally. She has written about other artists, curated exhibitions, and organized symposia. Currently she is a full time artist while working on independent projects and guest teaching. Lackey was born in Tennessee and received a BFA from California College of the Arts and a MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art.