Ronald Jackson

Ronald Jackson was born in 1970 in Helena, Arkansas. Growing up in the rural South of the Arkansas Delta, Ronald Jackson was the youngest of eleven children born to a farmer and a community organizer. His mother and father left a legacy of challenging and reshaping the norms of the racial status quo in his surrounding home communities. Jackson studied Architecture at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo CA before joining the United States Army. He served over twenty-one years in the Army and retired in 2014. Midway through his military career, Jackson began to develop himself as a professional artist. With no access to art school, Jackson engaged himself on a journey of self-discipline and personal discovery to realize his goal of becoming a self-taught artist. It was during this time as well, that global travel impacted and shaped his life perspective as the military afforded him the experience of living in a number of countries including South Korea, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Iraq, and Kuwait.

Jackson’s work has been exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions across the country and is held in a number of private collections including the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, MO and the Petrucci Family Foundation. Most recently, his work was included in ‘State of the Art 2020’ at the Momemtary, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, AR.

Submitted by Galerie Myrtis