Bio & Contact

Jackson Owen (b. 2000, Atlanta, GA, USA)

Jack 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 the subjectivity of truth and the relationship between truth and space. Through this interest, he problematizes how human perception is shaped by the spaces that one inhabits, and, in his work, he mainly depicts the kinds of spaces that shaped his childhood and generation, and those that continue to do so. Jack’s work picture moments of fabrication and dismantlement in various states of finished-ness.

Artist Statement

 10057396 (@) network.rca.ac.uk

Education

2025 M.A. (candidate)
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

Solo Exhibition

N/A

Group Exhibition

2025
Chiasmata, Greatorex Street Gallery, London, UK
sitnaltA, The Handbag Factory, London, UK
DOMINION, Safehouse 1 and 2, London, UK
A Yawn, RCA, London, UK

2024
The Tiny Art Show, RCA, London, UK
Student Show, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
The Cambridge Union Art Exhibition, The Cambridge Union Society, Cambridge, UK

Publication

2025

RCA Print Journal: Oil on Canvas (forthcoming)
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

Public Collection

The Cambridge Union Society, Cambridge, UK

Residency / Program

2023 
Shakespeare and the Common Good with Lydia Fox and Richard Ayoade
2022 
St. Edmunds College Artist-in-Resident, Cambridge, UK 

Award / Grant

2023 
St. Edmunds College Studio Art Grant, Cambridge, UK
Art Honors Club, Oglethorpe University