Born in Baltimore City, Thursday, 4:15AM, October 9, 1975
Parents native languages are Arabic and Spanish.

Jackie Milad is an artist who works with drawing, performance art and installation, and often creates projects that brings these disciplines together. Her projects explore the awkward moments shared between people as well as non-verbal languages.

She has exhibited internationally and nationally in such places such as Flashpoint Gallery in Washington D.C, the Arlingtion Art Center in Virginia, The Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, Gallery 32 as part of the London Biennale, Delaware Center of Contemporary Art in Wilmington, Museum of Fine Arts in Mazatlan, Mexico and Museum of Fine Arts in Culiacan, Mexico.

In 2005 she earned her MFA from Towson University, and in 2000 she received her BFA from Tufts University and the School of Museum of Fine Arts. In 1998, Milad studied painting at the Studio Arts Center International in Florence Italy. She is currently Program Coordinator and Curator for the Stamp Gallery at University of Maryland, College Park. In the winter of 2007-08, Milad completed a research residency in northwest Mexico where she researched and recorded local men's whistling habits. In 2010 Milad was awarded an Individual Artist Grant from the Maryland State Arts Council.

© 2010-2011 Jackie Milad