JEFFREY HIRST

Teaches at Chicago Printmakers Collaborative

Jeffrey Hirst has exhibited his work throughout the United States since the 1987.  His work has been showcased at national and international venues including the Minneapolis Institute of Art; The Holter Museum, Helena, Montana; McLean Project for the Art, McLean, VA; Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL; McKinney Contemporary, Dallas, TX and Palazzo Dell’ Annunziata, Matera, Italy.
 
He has been a visiting artist at universities around the United States conducting encaustic and printmaking workshops and has taught encaustic classes at Grand Maris Art Colony in MN, Arrowmont School for the Arts in TN, Center for Contemporary Printmaking in CT,  Cullowhee Mountain Arts in NC, and Truro Center for the Arts in MA.  Hirst also is the owner of Jeffrey Hirst Studios, a Printmaking shop in Chicago specializing in Intaglio, Screenprinting, and Experimental Approaches towards combining printmaking and encaustic.  His classes can be viewed at his site: www.jeffreyhirst.com
Hirst received his MFA from Louisiana State University and BFA from the University of Minnesota.  He is a recipient of a 2009 Minnesota State Arts Board grant and a printmaking fellowship residency to the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ireland. Hirst is represented by Addington Gallery in Chicago, Brandt-Roberts Galleries in Columbus, OH and Water Street Gallery in Douglas, MI.  His work is in numerous public and private collections including Arcstone Technologies, Grant Thornton International, Great River Energy, Southern Graphics Council, and SAP America