
Jenn Jackson is a curator, writer, and researcher whose work spans post-secondary institutions, galleries and museums, and public art commissioning. Her practice connects regional, national, and international contexts through curatorial research, exhibition-making, and institutional engagement. She has published widely on contemporary art and design in exhibition catalogues, books, and journals, and has curated exhibitions and programs at Libby Leshgold Gallery, SFU Galleries, Burrard Arts Foundation, and 221A in Vancouver, as well as at Portland State University, and documenta 14 in Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany. In 2021, she co-curated Vancouver Special: Disorientations and Echo, the Vancouver Art Gallery’s civic survey exhibition, alongside Phanuel Antwi, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Christian Vistan, and Grant Arnold. Since 2023 she has supported Host Consulting Inc, an Indigenous-led public art and decolonial consulting firm founded by Faith Sparrow-Crawford, Salia Joseph, and Jade George, in an advisory capacity. She is currently Director Curator of Or Gallery. She lives and works in the unceded, occupied, traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ peoples.