Roxanne Jackson was born in California’s East Bay and currently lives and works in New York. She received her MFA in Ceramics from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and holds a BS in Botany from Humboldt State University. Jackson has exhibited internationally, with recent exhibitions at Anton Kern Gallery, New York; Arter Museum, Istanbul; R & Company, New York; The Hole, New York and Los Angeles; Sargent’s Daughters, Los Angeles; and Louise Alexander Gallery, Sardinia. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, and the Gardiner Museum, Toronto. In 2026, Jackson is a Guest Artist at the Center for Contemporary Ceramics at California State University, Long Beach.

Jackson’s ceramic sculptures collide mythology, the natural world, horror, and humor to create fantastical forms that oscillate between beauty and monstrosity. Her upcoming solo exhibition, OVUM, takes its title from the Latin word for egg and brings together sculptures of lizards, snakes, birds, and mythological hybrids such as harpies. Drawing upon Jackson’s background in botany and her fascination with evolutionary biology, the exhibition considers birth, vulnerability, predation, and transformation within the natural world. Through intricately modeled forms and richly layered glazes, Jackson approaches ceramics as both biological and geological matter, imagining creatures caught in states of metamorphosis between animal, mineral, fossil, and myth.