Bio & News

Absence, loss, and metaphor pervade Jacinda Russell’s artwork. Throughout the decades, four themes have emerged: 1) Time marked through transience and longevity; 2) The Archive and the (in)ability to keep objects in perpetuity; 3) Water in its liquid and frozen state; and 4) Edges and ends of the line. The latter brought her to Antarctica and within 500 miles of the North Pole and is also evident in the telling of stories at the edge of the chronology of time (through ice cores and tree rings).

She works primarily in the mediums of photography, sculpture, installation, and bookmaking. Her artwork has been exhibited at numerous locations nationally and internationally including the southernmost place on earth, the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Born in Idaho, she received her BFA from Boise State University in Studio Art and her MFA from the University of Arizona. After teaching for 24 years in higher education, she returned to Tucson, Arizona where she maintains her artistic practice.

News:

2026 Language Erratics with Hannah Larrabee, University of Arizona Poetry Center, Tucson, AZ (August - December)

2026 Summer Social: Jacinda Russell and Hannah Larrabee on Art, Poetry, and Language Erratics, Century Room, Hotel Congress, Tucson, AZ (2 August, 4 PM)

2026 Two Lenses, One Place: Ekphrastic Responses to Climate Change with Hannah Larrabee and Jacinda Russell, Workshop at the University of Arizona Poetry Center, Tucson, AZ (30 July)

2026 Selections from The Postcard Collective: 2019-2026, Group exhibition curated by Monica Church, Vassar College Art Library, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY (July - October)

2026 Nightswimming, Group exhibition curated by Brian Hitselberger, The Weather Station, Lafayette, IN (March - May)

2026 Under the Sun, Group exhibition curated by Joseph Labate, Steinfeld Gallery, Tucson, AZ (March)

2026 On the Cold Edge: Creative Meditations on Svalbard, Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture, Volume 1, Issue 2 (February)

2026 Silent Testimony with Brent Cole, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, Tucson, AZ (January - December)