Background
Jacolby Satterwhite was born in 1986, in Columbia, South Carolina, United States. He is a son of Patricia Satterwhite, an artist.
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In 2008, Jacolby received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art.
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In 2009, Satterwhite studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
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In 2010, Satterwhite attained a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
1300 W Mt Royal Ave, Baltimore, MD 21217, United States
In 2008, Jacolby received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art.
1 Art School Road, Skowhegan, ME 04950, Madison, ME 04950, United States
In 2009, Satterwhite studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States
In 2010, Satterwhite attained a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
Jacolby, sitting next to the Janet Jackson wall in his bedroom circa the late 1980's.
Jacolby Satterwhite was born in 1986, in Columbia, South Carolina, United States. He is a son of Patricia Satterwhite, an artist.
When Jacolby was a kid, he watched Janet Jackson's video anthology VHS tape every day after school. At the age of 11, after he got his first personal computer, he started working with video. By the age of 13, Satterwhite spent most of his time painting, gaming and building websites to sell pornography.
In 2008, Jacolby received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art. The following year, in 2009, he studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. In 2010, Satterwhite attained a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
After studying at a graduate school of the University of Pennsylvania, Jacolby began combining his paintings in video with 3D animation tools. In 2010-2011, he acted as an artist-in-residence at Harvestworks in New York City. In 2012, Jacolby held the same post at Headlands Center for the Arts. Between 2013 and 2014, Satterwhite worked as an artist-in-residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace.
In 2012, Satterwhite held an exhibition, titled "Jacolby Satterwhite", at the Hudson D. Walker Gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The following year, in 2013, Jacolby's exhibition, "Island of Treasure", was held at Mallorca landings in Palma De Mallorca, Spain. In 2014, his series, entitled "Reifying Desire", was featured in the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Merging 3D animation and live action, the series scrutinizes themes of memory and personal history in a virtual dreamlike environment.
Also, in 2014, Satterwhite presented his work at the exhibition "WPA Hothouse Video: Jacolby Satterwhite", curated by Julie Chae. The exhibition included the work "Country Ball". It was also in 2014, that Jacolby held an exhibition, titled "How Lovely Is Me Being As I Am", at OhWOW Gallery (present-day Morán Morán), in Los Angeles, California. Later, in 2015 and 2016, Satterwhite participated in the traveling exhibition - "Disguise: Masks and Global African Art".
Moreover, during his career, the artist's works were featured in other group exhibitions, held at different establishments, including MoMA PS1, The Smithsonian, The Kitchen, Rush Arts Gallery and Exit Art.
It's also worth noting, that, in 2019, Satterwhite collaborated with Solange Knowles on her visual album, titled "When I Get Home".
Currently, the artist lives and works in New York City.
Jacolby Satterwhite gained prominence for his work, that, through performance, video, 3D animation, installation and sculpture, explores themes of memory, desire, ritual, labor, consumption, sex and fantasy. He uses a range of software to produce intricately detailed animations and live-action film of real and imagined worlds, populated by the avatars of artists and friends.
Jacolby attained numerous awards, including the Grand Prize for Driven exhibition at the Smithsonian Institute's S. Dillon Ripley Center in 2007, Cosby Fellowship to Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture in 2009, Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship in 2010, Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant in 2013, United States Artists Fellowship in 2016 and many others.
Satterwhite's work has been presented in numerous exhibitions both in the United States and in Europe, and is kept in public collections of different museums, including the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Seattle Art Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Kiasma and the San Jose Museum of Art.
Bringing together such practices, as vogueing, 3D animation and drawing, Satterwhite's dreamlike videos explore his own body and queerness, while also incorporating his mother's identity, her schizophrenia and the thousands of illustrations she made throughout his childhood. His work was influenced by music videos, featuring Deee Lite, Björk, Janet, Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Michael Jackson and Madonna. In addition, Satterwhite's work in dance performance draws from choreographer William Forsythe's dance techniques.
Quotations: "There are limits with what you can do with objects, because objects are imbedded with history, politics and all kinds of anxiety."
