Nickerson makes photographs that examine identity and the physical and psychological effects of living within a specific environment.
Her first body of work, FARM, was made over a three-year period from 1997 to 2000 in rural locations all over southern Africa. It concentrates on how individual identity is made through improvisation. This was published by Jonathan Cape in September 2002 and was followed by a German edition entitled ‘Leben Mit Der Erde’ published by Frederking and Thaler (2002) and a French edition, ‘Une Autre Afrique’ published by Flammarion (2002).
In 2007 Steidl/MACK published ‘Faith’ with a French edition under the title ‘Fides’.
Her most recent work, Terrain, revisits eastern and southern Africa and focuses on labor and how the exertions of labor leave psychic and material traces on people and the environment.
Jackie Nickerson was born in the USA, grew up in England and now divides her time between Ireland and southern Africa. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Salzburg; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; Mudam Musee d’Art Moderne, Luxembourg; Galleria d'Arte dell'Istituto Portoghesi, Rome; National Portrait Gallery, London; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Sunderland Museum; Harn Museum, Gainesville; Vatican Museums, Rome; Hereford Museum, UK; Abdijdmuseum Ten Duinen, Belgium; Benaki Museum, Athens.
Her work is held in many collections including MoMA, NY; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas; Pier 24, San Francisco; Vatican Museums, Rome; Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Miami; Rubell Collection, Miami; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland; National Gallery of Ireland. In 2008 she was the winner of the AIB prize and has been short listed for the Deutscher Fotobuchpreis award (2008) and the John Kobal Prize (2003). In 2007 she was selected to be part of Le Mois de la Photo in Paris showing at the Centre Culturel Irlandais. She is the recipient of Culture Ireland awards and several Visual Art Bursaries from the Irish Arts Council.
She is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery in New York.
Her work can be found on the following websites:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/24/arts/design/jackie-nickerson-terrain.html?_r=0
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/art/jackie-nickerson-shainman
http://timelightbox.tumblr.com/post/74093463241/photograph-by-jackie-nickerson-jack-shainman
http://www.lightwork.org/archive/jackie-nickerson-terrain/
http://www.anotherafrica.net/art-culture/jackie-nickerson-our-daily-bread?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jackie-nickerson-our-daily-bread
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/17/on-view-a-photographers-artful-images-of-african-agriculture/?_php=true&_type=blogs&module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog+Main&contentCollection=On+View&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body&_r=0
http://www.anothermag.com/current/view/3188/Jackie_Nickersons_Terrain
http://modernfarmer.com/2013/11/become-part-grow-photographing-ag-africa/
http://www.fototazo.com/2011/08/image-jackie-nickersons-gate.html
