Jacqueline Bishop is known for paintings, drawings and installations that address global landscape issues by exploring the psychological connections between humans and nonhumans. Influenced by over three decades of traveling third world forests with scientists or alone, experiencing Katrina and documenting the BP Oil Spill, she continues to address the politicizing of nature, species extinction and eco-political injustice. Los Angeles Art Critic, Peter Frank wrote in the Huffington Post that “Bishop comments pointedly on ecological conditions, but what she stresses is the sensation of nature itself and the delicate yet vital role and presence within it of its sentient creatures.”
Having roots in St. Joseph where she was encouraged to focus on art, art history and creative writing, inspired her to attend the University of Kansas where she studied Art and Philosophy. She later received her BA from the University of New Orleans and an MFA from Tulane University where she also briefly taught art. For 8 years she was an Adjunct Professor for, Art and the Environment, at Loyola University, New Orleans and taught the course in the Costa Rica Study Abroad Program. She is the author of Chico Mendes: Em Memoria: A Tribute on the 10–Year Anniversary of His Death, in honor of the slain Brazilian rubber tapper assassinated by wealthy cattle ranchers in the Brazilian Amazon. She has exhibited and lectured in the U.S., Europe, Southeast Asia, South America and Canada and is a grant recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Joan Mitchell Foundation and Andy Warhol Foundation. Ms. Bishop’s work is included in collections of the Arkansas Arts Center, Detroit Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, Snite Museum of Art at Notre Dame and numerous other institutions. She has studios in New Orleans, Louisiana and Columbia, Mississippi, and is represented by the Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans.