Jane Thérèse "Tessa" Jackson OBE is a British art curator, writer and cultural advisor .
[1] In 1991, Jackson was appointed as the director of the Arnolfini (Bristol's contemporary art venue), in which she played a leading role in the redevelopment of the institution.
[5] Appointed to the position of CEO of Iniva[6](the Institute of International Visual Arts) in 2009, she continued to uphold the organisation's remit to bring leading black, Asian, African, Middle-Eastern, Caribbean, Oceanic and Latin American contemporary artists from around the world to the London venue, which had become, in 2007, the capital's first purpose-built, publicly funded international contemporary art gallery since the Hayward Gallery in 1968.
[citation needed] Following her departure from Iniva in 2015,[7] Jackson returned to being an independent curator and cultural advisor for the National Portrait Gallery, the National Trust, the National Trust for Scotland, Heong Gallery - Cambridge and the Mongolian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2016-17).
In 2022 Jackson researched and curated the inaugural exhibition for the refurbished RWA (Royal West of England Academy), Bristol entitled 'Me, Myself, I: Artists' Self-Portraits'.