Josiah Jamison is a contemporary realist painter and interdisciplinary artist based in Columbus, Ohio. They hold an MFA in Drawing and Painting from The Ohio State University and a BFA in Fine Arts from Columbus College of Art & Design. Their practice spans figurative painting, drawing, installation, furniture, and poetic storytelling, with research rooted in African American history, psychoanalysis, and cultural memory. Jamison explores how trauma, mental health, and surveillance mark Black life, while also tracing the survival practices—syncretism, ritual, and communal care—that have sustained Black communities across generations
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Through layered compositions and immersive environments, Jamison imagines spaces of resilience, kinship, and protection, drawing on ancestral knowledge and radical traditions of care. Their work has been exhibited at Beeler Gallery, Acock Gallery, Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, Sean-Christopher Gallery, and the Columbus Museum of Art. As a curator and arts worker, Jamison has organized exhibitions at Hopkins Hall Gallery and Urban Arts Space, cultivating platforms for dialogue, reflection, and collective imagination.