Zig Jackson*

Lot #36
"Entering Zig's Indian Reservation" China Basin, 1997
Archival pigment print
20 x 24 x 1 inches
Courtesy of the artist

About the Artwork

Artist and photography professor Zig Jackson (Headlands Artist in Residence ‘95) grew up on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota and is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes: Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara. Focusing on his culture and changing ways of life for both urban and reservation Indians, Jackson uses photography to document the everyday life experience of today's Indian. In contrast to the seductive and glamorized (or alternately, demonized) caricatures that thrive in Hollywood and the collective American imagination, Jackson’s images reveal a far different reality—one of a people in transition. Exhibited extensively in the U.S. and abroad, Jackson’s work has been on display at sites such as the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; the International Center of Photography, New York; and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. His photography is represented in the collections of numerous public and private institutions; in 2004, Jackson became the first Native American photographer to be represented in the collection of the National Library of Congress, when the Prints and Photographs Division acquired a number of his images. In 2021 Jackson was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Retail Value: $2,200