Richard A Jacobson updated April 2025
https://www.richardajacobson.com/
416-939-1402
Born 1959
Choiceland, Saskatchewan, Canada
Lives and works in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
EDUCATION
Graduated with Honours, Alberta College of Art, 1982
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 upcoming “R[age explores the tension between aging, identity,
in a society obsessed with youth and technology” Abbozzo Gallery
2023 “12:06 AM, One artist’s response to the A.I. ‘Crisis’” Abbozzo Gallery
2022 cancelled Abbozzo Gallery
2022 postponed Abbozzo Gallery
2021 “Pieces from a different puzzle” Abbozzo Gallery
2020 “The Sum and the Measure” Abbozzo
2019 “Yesterday and the day after that” Donna Child Gallery
2018 Donna Child Gallery
2012 Galleria 814
2011 Galleria 814
2010 Galleria 814
2009 Pilot gallery
2009 Liberty gallery
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Fall group Show Donna Child Gallery
2012 Power of Nature, House of Moments
2010 Touched by Fire, Royal Ontario Museum
2009 Nuit Blanche, Red Head Gallery
COMMISSIONED PORTRAITS
Margaret Atwood
Robertson Davies
Sir Christopher Ondaatje
Lord David Thomson
Bill Gates Senior
Sir Richard Francis Burton
Graham Watson, President of R.G.A. International
COLLECTED BY
Government of France
Royal Geographical Society
The Thomson Family
The Bronfman Family
The Ondaatje Family
Lakefield College
AWARDS RECEIVED
Toronto Art Directors Awards - numerous Gold, Silver and Bronze awards
Communication Arts Magazine’s Award of Excellence – four consecutive years
American Illustration Award of Excellence
New York Art Directors Award of Excellence
Amelia Frances Howard Gibbon’s Award
Ruth Schwartz Award
Nautilus Book Award
Hackmatack Award
Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award
Municipal Chapter Of Toronto Iode Book Award
Silver Birch Award
Rocky Mountain Book Award
Arthur Ellis Book Award
Tini Torgi Award
Canadian Library Association of Children’s Librarian’s Book Award
FEATURED ARTIST:
Applied Arts Magazine
Feature Articles:
Smithsonian Magazine
The Artist’s Magazine
PUBLICATION
Hard Place by R A Jacobson
A Lead Pill by R A Jacobson
A Single Round by R A Jacobson
A Cold Hand by R A Jacobson
Picasso by Rick Jacobson, Tundra Books
Finalist, Hackmatack Award
Short list, Amelia Francis Howard-Gibbon Book Award
Finalist, Nautilus Book Awards
The Mona Lisa Caper by Rick Jacobson, Tundra Books
Short list, Amelia Frances Howard Gibbons Award
The Master’s Apprentice by Rick Jacobson, Tundra Books
Short list, Amelia Frances Howard Gibbons Award
Anne Of Green Gables By LM Montgomery, Tundra Books
Prairie Willow by Maxine Trottier, Stoddard
Our Choice outstanding book selection CCBC
Short list, Ruth Schwartz Award
Notable Book, Social Studies, Children's Book Council
Children's Choice selection, Children's Book Council
and International Reading Association
Tchaikovsky Discovers America by Esther Kalman, Lester Publishing
Glass Town by Michael Bedard, Stoddard
Little Dog Moon by Maxine Trottier, Stoddard
King Of The Skies by Ruksana Khan, Scholastic
Jeremiah Learns To Read by Jo Ellan Bogard, Scholastic
Winner, Ruth Schwartz Award
Magnificent Piano Recital by Marilyn Reynolds, Orca Books
Winner, Amelia Frances Howard Gibbons Award
Vivaldi, Ring of Mystery by Douglas Cowling , Scholastic
I Heard My Mother Call My Name by Nancy Hundal, HarperCollins
TEACHING
2004 2008 Branksome Hall After School Art program
2011 ArtOne Academy
Lectured children and adults on art and art history:
Toronto District School Board
Toronto Catholic District School Board
Calgary Board of Education
The Canadian Library Association