Jennifer Jackson was born and raised in the Chicago area and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts, with distinction, in Art Education and Studio Arts from University of Illinois at Chicago in 2003.  She is an artist/educator whose photography investigates architectural icons and concepts of time, specifically decay and transition.  Her current work examines the linguistic symbols embedded in funerary artifacts.  Her use of a "toy" camera and alternative photography methods allow for pleasant surprises to unfold during her process.  The camera distorts reality through its imperfect plastic lens while the alternative processes are immune to consistent results.  The very deterioration of physical forms and the unforeseen consequences of time that constitute her body of work are paralleled by the methods she utilizes to capture them.

Jackson's work has been shown in galleries in and around the Chicago area including: Gallery 180, 350 and the River East Art Center in Chicago, Great Space Gallery at University of Illinois at Chicago, the Brickton Art Center in Park Ridge, The James Hotel in Chicago, The Anne Brierly Gallery in Winnetka and the Visual Arts Gallery at Governors State University where she received honorable mention for a piece in her "at the seam" series. She has played an active role in the creation of student and professional art exhibitions including "Time Interpreted" at the Brickton Art Center, an exhibition that deals with the intangible notion of time.

Throughout her career she has taught beginning and advanced photography, mixed media sculpture and ceramics to high school students.  She is currently teaching on the North Shore of Chicago and enjoying some "down time" in the wake of completing her Masters Degree in Photography from Governors State University.  In the summer she teaches graphic design and photography at Elmhurst College for Josten's Yearbook Clinic as well as art classes in the Western suburbs.

Jennifer Jackson currently resides in the city of Chicago with her husband.