JACKIE TILESTON

Jackie Tileston is a painter and Professor in Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches in an interdisciplinary MFA program as well as teaching a seminar "Mystics and Visionaries: Art and Other Ways of Knowing". She has been a practitioner of yoga and meditation for over 25 years, and is fascinated with "non-ordinary" states of consciousness. She spent her childhood as an itinerant “Third Culture Kid,” living in the Philippines, India, England, and France, before moving to the US. She has a B.A. from Yale University and an MFA from Indiana University.

Her paintings are heterotopic spaces in which recombinant strategies and nomadic thinking create complex images that investigate the contemporary sublime and states of being. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions in Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, and Dallas, and group exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Museum (Houston), Art in General and the Painting Center (New York), and the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art. Tileston is the recipient of the Core Fellowship Residency, the Pew Fellowship in the Arts (2004), the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency (2005), the Guggenheim Fellowship (2006), and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award (2011) and residency (2017).