Artist Bio: 

Jalen Jackson is a visual artist whose paintings explore African American culture, collective memory, and experiences. His paintings depict flashbacks of his childhood and other memories, especially growing up as a son of a single mother. Jackson began college as a Business Management student at North Carolina A&T University. During his junior year, he signed up for a painting class and rediscovered his love for art he had fostered as an African American child growing up in Durham, NC. He received his BFA in Visual Arts from NC A&T State University in 2021 and has exhibited locally at CAM Raleigh, 311 Art Gallery, Anchorlight Studios, Wake Tech, Barton College, The Fruit and Artspace. He was the Inaugural HBCU Artist in Residence at Artspace in downtown Raleigh.