Recognized as one of the Visionary Imagists of the contemporary American South, Jacqueline Bishop (b. 1955, Long Beach, CA) is known for paintings, drawings and installations exploring the psychological connections between humans and non-humans. Informed by the history of landscape painting and her travels in South America, Central America, and Southeast Asia, Bishop’s work addresses the politics of landscape, the realities of migration and extinction, and the loss of intimacy with nature.
Bishop studied Art and Philosophy at the University of Kansas, received her BA in painting from the University of New Orleans and an MFA in painting from Tulane University, going on to teach Art and the Environment as an adjunct professor at Tulane and Loyola Universities. She is the author of Chico Mendes: Em Memoria: A Tribute on the 10–Year Anniversary of His Death (Lavender Ink, 1998); a collection of 10 years of paintings and testimonials about the Brazilian rubber tapper slain by wealthy cattle ranchers. Bishop has also been the recipient of several awards, including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2007, as well as Joan Mitchell and Warhol Foundation grants in 2006.
Bishop has exhibited and lectured in Europe, Asia, South America, Canada, and the United States, and her work can be found in the permanent collections of the Arkansas Arts Center, Detroit Institute of Arts, Flint Institute of Arts, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, The Marianne Kistler Beach Museum of Art, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum, among other institutions.
Bishop lives in New Orleans and works in her studios in both New Orleans and Columbia, Mississippi.