Jackie Hoysted is a native of Ireland, currently residing in Bethesda, Maryland. She has a degree in computer science from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and a fine arts degree from the George Washington Corcoran College of the Arts & Design, Washington DC.

She is a multidisciplinary artist with works ranging from painting and sculpture to immersive digital and electronic installations. Her projects are typically public participatory in nature and are inspired buy socio-political issues. Major projects include Send Me Your Last Cigarette; Vote-4-Pope (where women adorn papal attire and pose for a papal photograph);  Body-Bag (where participants lie in a body bag and later complete a toe tag narrating their experience); and Contemplating Candy (where the public consume oversized lollipops and consider their addition to the sugar industry). Her most current exhibition Symbiotica combines bio-sculptures made from fungi with bio-sensors that detect participants heartbeats that light up a futuristic flower garden. The exhibition advocates for recognition of our interconnectedness with the planet.

Jackie is also 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 and stewardship of the environment.