Jackson Owen

Jack (b. 2000, Atlanta, GA, USA) is an American artist living and working in London. He studied at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta (2018-2022) the University of Oxford (2022) and the University of Cambridge (2022-2024). He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Painting at the Royal College of Art in London.

In his work, Jack is primarily interested in issues of construction and built-ness, particularly as they relate to ‘truth’ and space. Through this interest, Jack problematizes how human perception is shaped by the spaces one inhabits. Thus, his subject matter is derived from the spaces that have shaped him and his vernacular, especially the American South, his current space in the UK, and the space of digital simulacra. Here, a particular consideration for Jack is how nostalgia affects perception – a nostalgia concerning one’s own personal history or for a particular historical narrative. With a research background in the history of painting, the matters of historiography, tradition, and myth are also on his mind. Jack’s ambition with his practice is to build space with visual language that rhetorically questions these issues.

jdbo135@gmail.com   @jackowentogo


Exhibition History

2025

Not With _, But a Yawn, Curated by Ji Yun Kim, Norito Gallery, London, UK

RCA Degree Show, RCA Battersea, London, UK

Material History, Curated by Aubrey Higgin, Chilli Art Projects, London, UK

1, 2, 3, ALT!, Curated by Alex Guo and Serena Gao, Hypha Studios, London, UK

Chiasmata, Curated by Douceline Van Caloen, Greatorex Street Gallery, London, UK

sitnaltA, Curated by Alex Guo and Serena Gao, The Handbag Factory, London, UK

DOMINION, Curated by Kaiya Cornish, Safehouse 1 and 2, London, UK

A Yawn, Curated by Ji Yun Kim, RCA, London, UK

2024

The Tiny Art Show, RCA, London, UK

Student Show, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK

Debating Language, Curated by Felix Esche, The Cambridge Union Society, Cambridge, UK


Education

2025 M.A.
Painting, The Royal College of Art, London, UK

2024 M.A.
Visual Culture Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

2022 Visiting Student / Teaching Assistant
St. John’s University, Rome, Italy

2022 Visiting Student
New College, Oxford, University of Oxford, UK

2022 B.A. (double)
Studio Art and Art History, Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, GA, USA


Publication

2025
Private View Issue I ‘Oil on Canvas’


2024
The Cambridge Journal of Visual Culture Volume 3: Systems
The Mays Anthology 32
Murray Edwards College Literary Society Anthology


2023
The Mays Anthology 31


2022
New College Art Anthology


Residency / Program / Grant

2025
Guest Lecturer, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK

2023
Shakespeare and the Common Good with Lydia Fox and Richard Ayoade

2022
St. Edmunds College Artist-in-Resident, Cambridge, UK