Jill Grimes

Born in Texas, Jill Grimes received a BFA in Painting from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA in Painting from Boston University. She has exhibited her paintings throughout New England and the US, most recently at the Alpha Gallery in Boston, Holy Family University in Philadelphia, and The Dibden Center for the Arts at Johnson State College in Vermont. Her work has been reviewed by the Boston Globe and Art New England, and has been featured in New American Paintings and 100 Boston Painters. She has been awarded artist residencies at the Catskill Center for Conservation in New York State, and twice at The Vermont Studio Center. She is a 2014 recipient of the Blanche E. Colman Award. Grimes is a Lecturer at Boston University College of Fine Arts, where she has been teaching since 2006. She has also taught painting and drawing abroad in Venice and Umbria, Italy, for Boston University and the International School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture. She is represented by Alpha Gallery in Boston.