Jeffrey Schiff
Professor of Art, Emeritus
CFA H - Art Studio North Room 103, 289 Washington Terrace860-685-3525
BA Brown University
MFA University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Jeffrey Schiff
Jeffrey Schiff is a sculptor/installation artist. He has received numerous fellowships, including The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, a Senior Scholar Fulbright Fellowship to India, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Schiff has exhibited his work widely, in New York City at the Sculpture Center, Stux Gallery, and Bose Pacia Gallery, in New Delhi at Nature Morte Gallery, and in institutions such as the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, Real Art Ways, and the Katonah Museum of Art. He has produced permanent public commissions at the Boston South Station Railroad Terminal and New Britain Courthouse. In 2003 he collaborated with Wesleyan students to produce The Library Project at Wesleyan University. His work is in the collections of the City of New York, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Univerisity of Massachusetts in Amherst.
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By Appointment, jschiff@wesleyan.edu or ext. 3525, 103 Studio North