NYC Faculty Member
Education:
MA, History of Contemporary Art and Visual Culture, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
MA, Art and Cultural Management, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
MEd, Education, Colorado State University
BA, Graphic Design, University of Iowa
BA, Spanish, University of Iowa
Matthew Jackson is an art historian, teaching artist, and Spanish language teacher residing in NYC. Originally from Nebraska, his affinity to cultural inquisitiveness eventually led him abroad to study art and foreign languages. He would go on to spend ten years in the Czech Republic and Spain as both a graduate student and art professional. As a teacher at an international school in Prague, he taught art history to a student body from over 50 nations. While in Spain, he worked for the Spanish Ministry of Education as a cultural ambassador in San Sebastián and a museum educator at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid. Here in NYC, he has worked as an independent lecturer at the Museum of Modern Art and within various educative roles. Lastly, his own practice as an artist spans a variety of media and primarily engages with abstract relationships between color, pattern, structure, and form.
Which Winchendon class or ColLAB would you most like to take?
DOCUMERICA 2022: Snapshots of Crises and Cures.
On the bucket list?
I’d really like to live in Baja California at some point. There’s that, or I’d also like to live in a little cottage along a stream in the Rocky Mountains.
A favorite place to visit and the books you would take there?
Italy. And I’d take “I, Claudius” and “Claudius the God” as reading material.
Hero/heroine?
My mother. She was Nebraska University’s Female Athlete of the Year as a swimmer in 1979 and one of NU’s top all-time letter winners.
