Carol Jacobsen

Carol Jacobsen is an award-winning social documentary artist whose works in video and photography address human and civil rights issues of women’s criminalization and censorship. Her art work has been exhibited and screened worldwide, including at Lincoln Center, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Centre de Cultural Contemporanea, Barcelona; Kunstforum, Bonn; Brussels International Film Festival, Belgium; Temple Gallery, Rome; Photography Biennial, Wanganui, New Zealand; Human Rights Watch, Beijing, China, and in many grassroots venues. She has received awards and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Paul Robeson Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Center for New Television, Women in Film Foundation, Art Matters, Prostitutes of New York, No More Nice Girls, New York, and others. Her published articles on art, feminism and politics have appeared in Art in America, Exposure, New York Law Review, Social Text, Lower East Side Journal and other publications. She is currently an Associate Professor of art and women’s studies at the University of Michigan, and is represented in New York by Denise Bibro Fine Art. She serves as Coordinator of the Michigan Women’s Clemency Project, advocating for the human rights of women prisoners and seeking freedom for women wrongly incarcerated, and her works have been sponsored by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, COYOTE, Women’s Prison Association of New York, the American Civil Liberties Association and other nonprofit organizations.