Jackie Ferrara (b. 1929, Detroit, MI) began her career as a sculptor in New York City in the early 1970s, a time during which the theory of “the death of painting” was the prevailing cultural dialogue and the door was kicked wide open for artists to explore new and yet-invented mediums. Ferrara’s art extended the notion of traditional sculpture into the public, architectonic sphere. As Ferrara created monumental structures, many of which were designed to be physically engaged with, and intimately-scaled, highly refined maquettes, she shifted the language of the sculptural experience.

Jackie Ferrara has produced numerous monumental public and site-specific projects internationally, including those in Toronto (Ontario, CA), New York, NY, and St. Paul, MN; and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN), Tufts University (Medford, MA), and the State University of New York at Purchase (Purchase, NY), to name a few. Ferrara’s works reside in the permanent collections of over 60 museums and public collections worldwide, including the Louisiana Museum (Humlebaek, DK), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, AR), and High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA). Most recently, Ferrara’s works were included in Steel, String, Spit Bite: Selections from the LeWitt Collection at the New Britain Museum of American Art (New Britain, CT - November 12, 2021-March 18, 2022), and Dream Monuments: Drawing in the 1960s and 1970s at the Menil Drawing Institute (Houston, TX - May 21-September 19, 2021).

Jackie Ferrara is represented by Franklin Parrasch Gallery.