Jacqueline Surdell is a Chicago-based artist working across sculpture, painting, and performance. Using rope, industrial textiles, drawing, and found materials, she creates large-scale fiber constructions that reimagine landscape as a site of memory, grief, and transformation. Through labor-intensive processes of knotting and weaving, her work explores tensions between softness and structure, abstraction and allegory, and the body’s relationship to place, drawing on personal and collective histories, myth, and iconography. She holds an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from Occidental College. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, with solo presentations at Secrist | BEACH, Devening Projects, Apparatus Projects, Gallery COMMON, and The Armory Show, among others. She is a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship recipient and has completed residencies at Vermont Studio Center, ACRE, Ragdale, Millay Arts, and Fountainhead. She is represented by Secrist | BEACH.