Jeanne Jaffe

Jeanne Jaffe is a multi-disciplinary artist working in installation, sculpture, drawings, and stop motion animation. Her work is influenced by an interest in language, literature, psychology, and history and explores how we construct identity, our world and our value systems.
Ms. Jaffe is Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and has been a visiting artist for five years at Xian Academy of Fine Arts in Xian, China.

Ms. Jaffe is the recipient of fellowship grants for outstanding artistic development from the Gottlieb Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mid Atlantic/NEA. the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Independence Foundation, the Leeway Foundation, and the Mino Artist Residency in Japan, and most recently an Innovative Artist Fellowship from the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County and the Deering Estate Artist Residency.
Works by Ms. Jaffe have been exhibited nationally and internationally at such places as Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art Museum, Phila. Pa, Seokang Museum of Art, Busan, Korea, Mino Washi Museum, Mino, Japan, The Royal Scottish Academy of Edinburgh, Scotland, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, N.J., American Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, Georgia, Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pa. Woodmere Art Museum, Phila. Pa, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE. Abington Sculpture Garden, Abington, Pa. Rowan University Gallery, Glassboro, N.J., Marginal Utility Gallery, and Gallery Joe in Phila, Pa.
She has recently moved to south Florida where she has had a solo exhibition with Spinello Projects in Miami and has also shown at LNS Gallery, Bridge Red, Doral Art Museum, Coral Springs Art Museum, IS Projects, Hollywood Art and Culture Center, Deering Estate, the Mexican Consulate, the Arts Warehouse, Edge Zones, IPC Artspace and Collective 62.

Her work has been reviewed in Art in America, The New York Times, and Sculpture Magazine among others.