Jacqueline Hoysted
Jackie Hoysted is a native of Ireland, currently residing in Bethesda, MD. She has a degree in computer science from Trinity College, Dublin, and a fine arts degree from the George Washington University Corcoran School of the Arts and Design.
Hoysted has had multiple solo shows of her artwork throughout the US and has been featured in several publications, including the Washington Post, Huffington Post, The Express, The Gazette, Washington City Paper, The Pittsburgh Review and the Richmond and Baltimore Examiners. The digital media author Scott Ligon selected her work for inclusion in his book The Digital Art Revolution. She has been awarded several Individual Artists and Scholars Grants from the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County and the Vermont Studio Center and has attended artist residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Cill Rialaig, Ireland, and the Tyrone Guthrie Center, Ireland.
Hoysted is the founder of Countdown Temporary Artspace and co-founder of ArtWatch, a Washington, DC, collective that aims to develop ways to use the power of visual communication to express their support for values, such as inclusion, tolerance, equality under the law, and stewardship of the environment. Hoysted is a board member of and the visual arts curator for Solas Nua, an Irish organization that promotes contemporary Irish culture in the Washington, DC, area.
