About the Artist
Jeffrey Carr studied painting at the New York Studio School in the 1970s, where he worked with Leland Bell, Esteban Vicente, and George McNeil, and later received his MFA in Painting from the Yale University School of Art, studying with William Bailey, Bernard Chaet, and Gretna Campbell. He earned his undergraduate degree with Honors in Studio Art from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Carr has had over a dozen one-person exhibitions, including solo shows at galleries in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Charlottesville, St. Louis, New Haven, Indianapolis, and Bloomington. His work has also been presented in numerous university galleries and art institutions throughout the United States and internationally, including exhibitions at St. Joseph’s University, the University of Maryland, the College of William and Mary, Indiana University, the University of Virginia, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, and the International School of Art in Montecastello, Italy.
In addition to his exhibition practice, Carr has had a long and distinguished career as an artist-educator. He has taught at the Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana University Bloomington, the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, Fontbonne University in St. Louis, the Silvermine Guild School of Art in New Canaan, Connecticut, and the International School of Art in Montecastello, Italy. He served as Professor of Art and Chair of the Department of Art at St. Mary’s College of Maryland for over twelve years and was later Dean of the School of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia from 2003 until his retirement in 2015.
Carr has also been a visiting artist, lecturer, or panelist at numerous art schools and universities, including the New York Studio School, the University of Washington, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Hollins University, Smith College, Washington University in St. Louis, and the Yale University School of Art.
Raised in La Jolla, California, Carr now lives and works on the same property in East County San Diego where he grew up.