Jackson Slattery

Jackson Slattery is an artist whose practice centres on realist oil painting and text-based works. Drawing from personal, often diaristic source material, his work explores the intersection of intimate experience, art history, and conceptual inquiry. Through a sustained engagement with realism, Slattery investigates painting’s capacity for sincerity, doubt, and self-reflection in an era defined by image saturation. His research focuses on the evolving role of realism as a representational strategy, tracing its history from nineteenth-century painting to contemporary photographic culture. Using carefully composed scenes drawn from everyday life, he transforms seemingly mundane subjects into reflections on memory, relationships, and lived experience.

Biography

Jackson Slattery (he) has exhibited his work both locally and internationally, including exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, the Shodoshima Triennale in Japan, and Galerie Desaga in Cologne. He has also participated in several international residencies, which include: ISCP, NYC; Sammlung Lenikus, Vienna; and Stonehouse, France. Slattery’s work is in private, public and institutional collections, both locally and overseas, including the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Canada. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts, with a major in Drawing, from RMIT, Melbourne (2005), as well as a Master’s of Fine Arts from Concordia University (2021).

 

Recent exhibitions

2025	Pétales, solo exhibition, Galerie Eli Kerr, Montréal, CA DREAMACHINE, duo exhibition, Galerie Pangée, Montréal, CA First Fruits, group exhibition, Ermitage, Montréal, CA
2024	Bridges, solo exhibition, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, AU Alteration Generale, group exhibition, Galerie Chris Andrews, Montréal, CA
2023	Landslide, group exhibition, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, AU
2022	XXX, group exhibition, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, AU
2021	Baroque (Part 1), solo exhibition, Parc Offsite, Montréal, CA Baroque (Part 2), solo exhibition, Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain Inc., Montréal, CA