Faculty Member

Katherine Jackson

Biography

Katherine completed her PhD in Art History from the University of British Columbia and was also a visiting PhD researcher at the Slade School of Fine Art at University College London. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto and a recipient of the Canadian Social Science and Humanities (SSHRC) and the University of Toronto's Art and Science Postdoctoral Research Fellowships. She was also part-time faculty at Parsons School of Design at the New School, NYC. In 2019 she was an editor at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School and from 2015-2018, worked as the Artist Placement Group's archive and research specialist at the home of APG cofounder John Latham's Flat Time House in London, UK.

Katherine has published extensively in peer reviewed journals (for article pdfs see: https://uvu.academia.edu/KatherineJackson). She has also co-organized events or been a guest speaker at various institutions including University College London, Chelsea College of Art, the Royal College of Art, and Goldsmiths University of London.

Education

PhD, University of British Columbia, 2020

Major: Art History

Visiting Research Position as part of Ph D, Slade School of Fine Art, University College of London, 2016

Major: Visiting Researcher Art History

Master Class , Herbert Art Foundation, 2015

Major: Master Class Art History

MA, University of Toronto, 2010

Major: Art History

BA, Concordia University, 2008

Major: Studio Art and Art History

Teaching

ARTH 3310

Art Theory and Criticism, Spring 2026

ARTH 3120

History of Contemporary Art, Spring 2026

ARTH 2800

Introduction to Art History Research and Methodology, Spring 2026

ARTH 2720

Renaissance Through Contemporary Art History, Spring 2026

Presentations

Jackson, Katherine , College Art Association Annual Conference, "Imaginative Rediscovery_ Destruction in Art and the Work of Rita Keegan", College Art Association, New York City . (February 13, 2025)
Jackson, Katherine (Author Only), Sleeman, Joy (Author Only), Bird , Nicky , McCausland, Onya , Aerial Landscapes Book Launch and Workshop Presentation , "Assemblage and the work of Barbara Steveni ", Flat Time House + University College London , London UK . (December, 2023)
Jackson, Katherine , Bradfield, Marsha (Chair), Interview of me by Prof. Marsha Bradfield (Central Saint Martins School of Art, University of the Arts London) on my publication in Oxford Art Journal 2023, "Morbid Symptoms of Capitalist Culture_ The Work of Stuart Brisley Interview ", Central Saint Martins, Flat Time House , London UK . (October, 2023)
Jackson, Katherine , The Slade School of Fine Art, University College London (Zoom), "Art in Context_ The Work of Barbara Steveni.". ()
Jackson, Katherine , Flat Time House, (London, UK), "Aerial Landscapes". ()
Jackson, Katherine , Found Objects Panel, CAA (New York), "Transitional Objects.". ()

Scholarly/Creative Works

Jackson, Katherine , (2025) "Context — strategy and the changing nature of art" . Oxford: Modern Art Oxford . https://modernartoxford.org.uk/whats-on/barbara-steveni-i-find-myself
Jackson, Katherine , (2023) "The View from Above" . London : Flat Time House and University College London Publishing . https://flattimeho.org.uk/projects/publications/aerial-landscapes/
Jackson, Katherine , (2023) "The Morbid Symptoms of Capitalist Culture_ The Work of Stuart Brisley (1970-72)" (Issue: 1, vol. 46). Oxford: Oxford Art Journal . https://academic.oup.com/oaj/issue/46/1
Jackson, Katherine , (2020) "Artist Placement Group' + 'Organisation and Imagination'" .
Jackson, Katherine , (2020) "The Problem with Steel_ Garth Evans’ Placement with the British Steel Corporation (1968–71)" (Issue: 2, vol. 6). Open Library of Humanities. https:// olh.openlibhums.org/articles/10.16995/olh.454/
Jackson, Katherine , (2019) "More for Less_ Art, Language and the Corporation" (Issue: 14, vol. 1). Revista de História da Arte. https:// institutodehistoriadaarte.files.wordpress.com/202 0/01/rha_14-144-157.pdf

Awards

Flexible Teaching Awards Best Course Design Second Place

UVU Academic Affairs Online Learning Council - March 3, 2025

Dear Professor Jackson,
Congratulations! The Academic Affairs Online Learning Council is pleased to inform you that after several rounds of peer review, you have been selected to receive the following Flexible Teaching Award_
Best Design, 2nd place
We appreciate your commitment, innovation, and effort that culminated in this accomplishment. Your excellence in online teaching serves as a model for other faculty.

Noam Chomsky Seminar Fellow

The New School

Arts and Science Postdoctoral Fellowship Top Up

University of Toronto

Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

Research Travel Grant

Paul Mellon

State O researcher-in-residence

Flat Time House