Zig Jackson
{{Short description|Native American photographer (born 1957)}}
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| birth_place = Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, North Dakota, U.S.
| nationality = {{hlist|Mandan/Hidatsa/Arikara|American}}
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| education = {{hlist|Northeastern Oklahoma State University (BS)|San Francisco Art Institute (MFA)}}
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Zig Jackson (born January 16, 1957) is a Native American (Mandan/Hidatsa/Arikara) photographer.
Early life and education
Jackson was born on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota on January 16, 1957.{{cite web |title=Zig Jackson |publisher=Amon Carter Museum of American Art |url=https://www.cartermuseum.org/artists/zig-jackson |access-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-date=November 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103050821/https://www.cartermuseum.org/artists/zig-jackson |url-status=live }} He is an enrolled member of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation.{{cite web |title=Collection: Zig Jackson photographs |publisher=University of Oregon |url=https://scua.uoregon.edu/repositories/2/resources/9557 |access-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-date=November 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103053731/https://scua.uoregon.edu/repositories/2/resources/9557 |url-status=live }} Jackson completed his primary education at St. Joseph's Indian School near Chamberlain, South Dakota, and completed his secondary education at Intermountain Indian School in Brigham City, Utah. He went on to earn a Bachelor of Science in education from Northeastern Oklahoma State University and a Master of Fine Arts in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute.
Career
Jackson's photographic series include "Indian Photographing Tourist Photographing Indian", "Native American Veterans", "Indian Man in San Francisco", and "Entering Zig's Indian Reservation". Many of his works feature an ironic or humorous perspective on contemporary Native American issues. In "Indian Photographing Tourist Photographing Indian", Jackson "satirizes white tourists becoming anthropological subjects as they photograph Native American powwow dancers."{{cite magazine |title=Strong Hearts: Native American Visions and Voices |magazine=Aperture |date=Summer 1995 |issue=139 |pages=2–3 |jstor=24472484}} Many of the tourists are so focused on the dancers they are unaware of Jackson's presence.{{cite magazine |last1=Harlan |first1=Theresa |last2=Marmon |first2=Lee |last3=Steber |first3=Maggie |title=Creating a Visual History: A Question of Ownership |magazine=Aperture |date=Summer 1995 |issue=139 |pages=20–33 |jstor=24472490}}
"Entering Zig's Indian Reservation", which Artsy describes as "perhaps his best-known series",{{cite web |title=Zig Jackson |url=https://www.artsy.net/artist/zig-jackson |access-date=November 3, 2023 |publisher=Artsy |archive-date=November 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231104061447/https://www.artsy.net/artist/zig-jackson |url-status=live }} features Jackson in various urban environments wearing a traditional headdress, staking claim to them with an official-looking reservation sign.{{cite journal |last=Heineman |first= Anna |title=Zig Jackson's Indian Reservation Series: Discussing the Issues of Land |journal=Exposure |volume=42 |issue=2 |date=Fall 2009 |pages=33–39 |issn=0098-8863}} On behalf of American Indian Quarterly, Kate Morris highlighted how, with this work, "Jackson establishes his own boundaries, reclaims Indian territories, and writes, rather than is subject to, the rule of law."{{cite journal |last=Morris |first=Kate |title=Running the 'Medicine Line': Images of the Border in Contemporary Native American Art |journal=American Indian Quarterly |volume=35 |issue=4 |date=Fall 2011 |page=566 |doi=10.5250/amerindiquar.35.4.0549 |jstor=10.5250/amerindiquar.35.4.0549}}
In 2005, Jackson became the first Native American photographer to be represented in the collections of the Library of Congress.{{cite web |title=Zig Jackson Is First Contemporary Native American Photographer Represented at the Library of Congress |publisher=Library of Congress |date=May 11, 2005 |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-05-098/ |access-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102074845/https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-05-098/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last=Indyke |first=Dottie |title=Native Arts | Zig Jackson |website=Southwest Art |date=April 2007 |url=https://www.southwestart.com/articles-interviews/featured-artists/native_arts-3 |access-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-date=November 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231104061448/https://www.southwestart.com/articles-interviews/featured-artists/native_arts-3 |url-status=live }} Jackson was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2021,{{cite web |title=Zig Jackson |publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/zig-jackson/ |access-date=November 23, 2023 |archive-date=November 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231123234130/https://www.gf.org/fellows/zig-jackson/ |url-status=live }} becoming the first indigenous American photographer to receive the award.
References
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External links
- {{official|https://www.zigjackson.com/}}
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Category:20th-century American photographers
Category:20th-century Native American artists
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Category:Northeastern State University alumni