Deborah Jack, is a St. Maarten and Jersey City-based multi-disciplinary artist whose work is based on video/sound installation, photography, painting, and text. Her work engages a variety of strategies for mining the intersections of histories, cultural memory, ecology, and climate change. Her work was featured in the exhibition Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990’s-Today at the MCA Chicago, and she will travel to ICA Boston in Fall 2023. In Fall 2021 Deborah Jack: 20 Years was presented at Pen + Brush in New York City. Deborah is a recipient of a 2021  Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists. She is 2023 Changing Climate Resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute and a Surfpoint Foundation residency. Deborah is currently a Professor of Art at New Jersey City University.

Deborah was in residency through a partnership with Prospect New Orleans, working towards a piece that will be exhibited in Prospect.6. During her residency, she explored fragile coastline ecological zones that are protective but also in danger due to erosion and saltwater inundation. Her process seeks to understand the shared vulnerabilities faced by island and coastal communities as sea levels rise and the memories of communities embedded in these landscapes face an existential crisis and look for strategies to counter the sense of loss.

“I had a wonderful time during my residency at the Studio. The creative and natural environment was inspiring, and I’m excited to continue developing this project. I’m working on a multi-screen video installation which will debut at Prospect.6, the future is present, the harbinger is home. During my time at the Studio, I worked with ASITW’s botanist and ecologist David Baker who connected me with a wider network and helped me film along the Mississippi River and the Gulf.” – Deborah Jack