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Jackson Mac Low

Jackson Mac Low is a poet, composer and a writer of performance pieces, essays, plays, and radio works. He is also a painter and multimedia performance artist (often with his wife, Anne Tardos). Author of 26 books, his work has also been published in many anthologies and periodicals and read publicly, exhibited, performed, and broadcast in North and South America, Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.

He has read, performed, and lectured throughout North America, Europe, and New Zealand. He has taught at many schools, including New York University (1966-73), has taught creative writing at SUNY-Albany (1984), SUNY-Binghamton (1989), Temple (Philadelphia, 1989), UC-San Diego (Regents' Lecturer, 1990), Naropa Institute (Boulder, 1975, 1991, 1994), Schule fuer Dichtung in Wien (Vienna, 1992, 1993), Bard College (MFA program, 1994), and Brown University (1994). He has received fellowships and grants from CAPS (NY State, 1974, 1977), the NEA (1979), PEN (1974, 1982), the Guggenheim Foundation (1985), the Fulbright Foundation (for New Zealand, 1986), the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council (N.Z., 1986), the New York Foundation for the Arts (1988), and The Fund for Poetry (1988-89, 1991-92). His visual works have been exhibited in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Austria, France, Italy, and Australia, most recently at Galerie 1900-2000 (Paris, 1989); Galleria F. Borghese (Rome, 1990); the "Ubi Fluxus ibi motus" pavilion, Venice Biennale (1990); Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (1990); Salvatore Ala Gallery (NYC, 1990); Emily Harvey Gallery (NYC, 1990-91, 1991-92); Plug In, Brian Melnychenko, and 1.1.1 galleries (Winnipeg, 1991); Galerie Krinzinger (Innsbruck, 1991); Tapeziererwerkstatt Wolfgang Radeczecki (Vienna, 1991), and in Cork, Ireland (1995).

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Jackson Mac Low is a poet, composer, author of 26 books, and a painter and multimedia performance artist. He has read, performed and lectured across North America, Europe and New Zealand and has taught at institutions including New York University (1966-73), SUNY–Albany (1984), SUNY–Binghamton (1989), UC San Diego (Regents' Lecturer, 1990), Naropa Institute, Schule fuer Dichtung in Wien, Bard College and Brown University (1994). He received fellowships including the Guggenheim Foundation (1985) and Fulbright (New Zealand, 1986); his visual works were exhibited at venues such as Galerie 1900-2000 (Paris, 1989) and Galleria F. Borghese (Rome, 1990) through 1995.

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