[3] Satterwhite received his BFA degree from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2008; and he attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture the next year.
[6] Satterwhite's work often utilizes his mother's schematic drawings/inventions of ordinary objects influenced by consumer culture, medicine, fashion, Surrealism, mathematics, sex, philosophy, astrology, and matrilineal concerns.
[5][9] The series combined 3D animation and live action, the work explores themes of memory and personal history in a virtual dreamlike environment.
[11] The same year he exhibited works from the Matriarch's Rhapsody in exhibitions including his first solo show in New York, The Matriarch's Rhapsody, Monya Rowe Gallery, in January,[12] The House of Patricia, Satterwhite at the Mallorca Landings Gallery in Palme De Mallorca in February,[13] and Grey Lines at Recess in New York City in August.
[14] In 2014 he showed work in the exhibition "WPA Hothouse Video: Jacolby Satterwhite," curated by Julie Chae at the Capitol Skyline Hotel.
Chae described Satterwhite's work as "visually spectacular, strange, and boldly combines humor with darker elements".
[19] In 2018, Satterwhite had a solo exhibition at New York’s Gavin Brown’s enterprise which featured the music video for his concept album, Blessed Avenue, based on the parts of songs his late mother recorded on cassettes.
"It takes a low-fi form of expression–folk music recorded onto cassette tapes at home in the 1990s–and elevates it all the way to a 3D animated virtual reality, experimental performance piece and concept album," he told Frieze magazine's Michael Bullock.