Jesse Colin Jackson is a Canadian artist and designer based in Southern California. He explores the architectures we construct – from buildings to landscapes to virtual worlds – through objects and images made with digital visualization and fabrication technologies. His long-running Marching Cubes series (2016–present) has been featured in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Mexico City, Stockholm, Tehran, and across America. In 2024, his new suite of kinetic works, The Printers Dance, premiered at Museo Taller José Clemente Orozco and two other venues in Guadalajara, Mexico.
His solo exhibitions – focused on the places we live – have been reviewed in the LA Review of Books, LA Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, The Globe and Mail, and Canadian Architect. He has edited and curated interdisciplinary projects including Engaging the Margins: Experimental Practices in Interdisciplinary Art (2024), Urban Ecologies 2013 (2016), and Making it Real (2013), one of the first international exhibitions of digitally fabricated objects.
At the University of California, Irvine, Jackson has been a fellow at the Newkirk Center for Science & Society and Beall Applied Innovation, and was a 2014–15 Hellman Fellow. He was previously a 2008–10 Howarth-Wright Fellow at the University of Toronto. He is Professor of Electronic Art & Design at the UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts, where he also serves as Associate Dean for Research and Innovation and Executive Director of the Beall Center for Art + Technology.
