Discipline: Visual Art

Jill Baroff

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Newburgh, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1988, 1990
Jill Baroff is a visual artist from Summit, NJ, living and working in New York. Baroff received degrees from Antioch University, the Artist Seminars Program at the Whitney Museum of Art, and Hunter College. Baroff has had more than 20 solo exhibitions worldwide at a variety of venues, including the Bartha Contemporary in London, UK; Galerie Christian Lethert in Cologne, Germany; the Kunstraum Metropol in Munich, Germany; GalleryGallery in Japan; the Hales Gallery in London; the Stake Gallery in New York; and the Brian Gross Fine Art gallery in San Francisco. Baroff has also received numerous grants and fellowships from organizations such as The Field Institute, Museum Insel Hombroich, the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Grant, the Adolph and Ester Gottlieb Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Pollack Krasner Foundation. Additionally, Baroff’s work has been exhibited in more than 80 group exhibitions, and her work resides in several public and private collections, such as the Achenbach Foundation, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin.

Studios

Eastman

Jill Baroff worked in the Eastman studio.

Thanks to the generous support of MacDowell Fellow and board member Louise Eastman, this century-old farm building was reinvented as a modern, energy efficient live and workspace for visual artists. Originally built in 1915 to house a forge and provide storage when the residency program was expanding, this small barn was simply converted for…

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