Education
The Cooper Union School of Art, BFA with Art History minor (2020 - Spring 2024)
New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (2016 - 2020)
San Francisco Art Institute (2018)
Fellowships and Residencies
Rivers Institute and Amistad Research Center, The Prepared Table (2022 - 2023)
Benjamin Menschel Fellowship for Creative Inquiry (2023 - 2024)
SunShip Studios at Arts Letters and Numbers (2023)
Teaching
The Cooper Union School of Art:
The Saturday Program: Sculpture (2022 - 2023)
The Saturday Program: Digital Media (2021 - 2022)
Summer Art Intensive: Drawing (2022)
New Orleans Center for Creative Arts:
Media in Experimental and Conceptual Art, Workshop (2019)
Exhibitions
2024
'Catching Orbital Debris (The Ohio Suite)' in the Benjamin Menschel Creative Inquiry Exhibition, NY (on view February 6 - 17, 2024)
solo thesis show at The Cooper Union, NY (TBD)
2023
'Docile (Labyrinth Organ)' window show at La MaMa Galleria, NY (on view December 10 - 24, 2023)
'Major Fifth' group show curated by Elias Dills at The Cooper Union, NY
'Ground Rules' group show curated by Ethan Kramer at The Cooper Union, NY
'Clothes Line' group show curated by Aneesa Razak and Sebastian Maseri at Socrates Sculpture Park, NY
'/'eved(e)ns/' solo show at The Cooper Union, NY
'Proposal Proposal' group show curated by Maya Bykuc at The Cooper Union, NY
'Junk Drawer' group show curated by Aneesa Razak at The Cooper Union, NY
'Louisiana Contemporary 2023' group show at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, LA (on view from August 5, 2023 - February 18, 2024)
2022
'Walking Through A Brick Wall' solo show at The Cooper Union, NY
'You stand in 15 feet of water as if it's a stage.' solo show at The Cooper Union, NY
'Louisiana Contemporary 2022' group show at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, LA
'8x10' group show at _floor in Seoul, Korea
'12x12x12' group show at The Cooper Union, NY
2021
'Water the Floorboards' solo show at 4305 S. Johnson, LA
'1 (800) Support' group show at The Cooper Union, NY
2020
'Make America What America Must Become' group show at the Contemporary Art Center New Orleans, LA
'Louisiana Contemporary 2020' group show at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, LA
'Visual Distancing' group show at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, LA
2019
'Inheritance And Immanence: The World We Are Left With' group show at the Contemporary Art Center New Orleans, LA
2018
'How Do You Create a Portrait of a City?' group show at the Contemporary Art Center New Orleans, LA
'Won't You Celebrate With Me?' Stevona Elem-Rogers’ ‘Black Women are For Grown Ups’ Little Free Library, LA
Awards
Fred A Lane Award: The Cooper Union (2023)
Greg Friedler Award in Photography: New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (2020)
Seth Daniel P Memorial Award: New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (2020)
Jacksun Bein is interested in subject-object relations, psycho-sexual tropes, and image capture/release. Bein's work operates as performative networks spanning writing, sculpture, images, and dead/alive/immortal emptiness.
Currently, Jacksun is working on long term research of American prison museums and spectacles of the sub-human. The project’s first iteration focused on the Angola Museum at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, and will continue investigating the Ohio State Reformatory's Paranormal Psychic Convention, presented in New York in 2024.