40 West Howard Street, Studio 116B, Detroit, MI 48342 JeffSchof@yahoo.com
Education
2019 MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1986 M Arch, Columbia University in the City of New York, NY
1980 BA cum laude, Washington University in Saint Louis, MO
Public Art Installation
2024 “Core Samples”, Park Hill Sculpture Garden, Easthampton, MA
2022 “Three Triads”, Melvin Johnson Sculpture Garden, Chautauqua Institute, Chautauqua, NY
2021 “Future Fragments”, Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN
2020 “Maple Grove Installations", with Ashley Beatty, Prairie Creek Park, Muncie, IN
2018 “Copper Trees", Art on Campus Initiative, Kellogg Community College, Battle Creek, MI
Solo Exhibitions
2025 “Featured Artist”, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI (anticipated)
“Charging Stations”, Hatch Art Gallery, Detroit, MI (anticipated)
“Trash to Treasure”, Taubman North Gallery, MU School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI (anticipated)
“The Art of Recycling”, Just Toledo, Toledo, OH (anticipated)
2024 “Michigan Forest Fire”, The Morton Gallery, ArtPrize 2024, Grand Rapids, MI
“Hair, Teeth and Bones”, ROY G BIV Gallery, Columbus, OH
“Road to Renewal”, Talking Dolls Art Gallery, Detroit, MI
2023 “Return to Sender”, Bread and Circus Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN
“ROY Presents”, ROY G BIV Gallery, Columbus, OH
2022 “Atmospheric Pressures”, Hatch Art Gallery, Detroit, MI
2021 “Seasonal Adjustments”, KINK Contemporary Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2020 “Fragments of Human Geography”, Artlink Contemporary Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN
“Rising Water Levels”, Hatch Art Gallery, Detroit, MI
Duo Exhibitions
2026 “The Art of Recycling”, with Izzy Losskarn, Ormond Art Museum, Ormond Beach, FL (anticipated)
2020 “Weather Permitting”, with Ashley Beatty, PlySpace Artist Residency, Muncie, IN
2019 “4 Degrees or More”, with Ashley Beatty, Edenton Bay Trading Company, Edenton, NC
“Tension Balance”, with Jetshri Bhadviya, The Peanut Factory Artist Retreat and Residency, Edenton, NC
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 “Eros and Thanatos”, Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI
2024 “Third Spaces of the Anthropocene”, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
“Arts Thrive”, Albuquerque Museum, NM
“Unbound: Narratives of our Constructed Environments”, A2AC Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
“SCULPTURE”, Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI
“Annual Juried Exhibition”, Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH (also 2023)
“Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Photography”, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI (also 2023)
“Tree Stories”, Sasse Museum of Art, Pomona, CA
“Michigan Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Muskegon Art Museum, Muskegon, MI (also 2023 $ 2019)
2023 “September Competition”, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA
“Annual Online Juried Exhibition”, Idaherma Museum of Art, Princeton, NJ
“Fine Arts Exhibition”, The Gallery at Chapel Hill, Canton, MI
“Midwest Regional Exhibition 2023”, Artlink Contemporary Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN (also 2022)
2022 “Rising Tides”, Target Gallery, The Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA
“Celebrating Sound Waterways”, Chowan Edenton Environmental Group Gallery, Edenton, NC
2021 “What’s Certain About Uncertainty?”, Dow Museum of Art and Science, Midland, MI
“Nature Calls”, Bread and Circus Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN
2020 “The Shape of Sculpture”, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH
2019 “Graduate Degree Exhibition”, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
“Michigan Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
“Greater Michigan Art Exhibition”, Dow Museum of Art and Science, Midland, MI
“Experiencing Perspectives”, Mercedes Benz Financial Services, Farmington Hills, MI (also 2018)
“(w)here”, Popps Emporium Gallery, Detroit, MI
“Foresight / for Site”, Burnside Farm Gallery, Detroit, MI
“Collective Terrain”, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2018 “Niche Art Installation”, Revolving Collection, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
“The Water that Crosses the Oceans”, travelling exhibition to Brazil, India, UAE, Italy
“Nature Calls”, Forum Gallery, Detroit, MI
2017 “Upcycled Books”, Revolving Collection, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
“In Arte Fabriano”, Fabriano, Italy (also 2016)
“Easy Come, Easy Go”, Forum Gallery, Detroit, MI
Scholarships, Fellowships and Awards
2023 Second Prize, Midwest Regional Exhibition, Artlink Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN
2019 Merit Scholarship, Ox Bow School of Art and Artist Residency, Saugatuck, MI
2018 Merit Scholarship, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Fellowship, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
2016 Gallery Show Award, International Emerging Artist Award, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Artist Lectures and Workshops
2023 Lecture, Making Ice Art in the Landscape, Grand Marais Art Colony, Grand Marais, MN
2022 Workshop, Humanity in Conflict with Nature, Hatch Art Gallery, Detroit, MI
Lecture, Making Landscape Art, Jentel Arts, Sheridan, WY
2021 Workshop, Sustainability in Art, KINK Contemporary Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2020 Lecture, Forest Mychorrizal Networks, PlySpace, Muncie, IN
2019 Workshop Assistant, Radical Repair, Forum Gallery, Detroit, MI
Artist Residencies
2024 Songbird Sanctuary, Civray-de-Touraine, France
2023 Chulitna Lodge, Lake Clark, AK
Grand Marais Artist Colony, Grand Marais, MN
2022 Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Taos, NM
Jentel Arts, Sheridan, WY
2021 Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN
Art Farm Nebraska, Marquette, NE
Monson Arts, Monson, Maine
Prairie Ronde, Vicksburg, MI
2020 PlySpace, Muncie, IN
Residency 108, Germantown, NY
Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA
Yellow Bird Art Farm, Woodbury, TN
2019 Edgewood Farm, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Truro, MA
The Peanut Factory Artist Retreat and Residency, Edenton, NC
Spruill Farm Conservation Project, Roper, NC
Selected Bibliography
Bieri, Sean, “Charged Expressions; Exploring Environmental Themes in Electric Vehicle Art”, catalog by Talking Dolls Art Gallery, Detroit, MI, 2024
https://issuu.com/jeffschof/docs/road_to_renewal
Piper, Matthew, “Earth Elegy: the Eco-Art of Jeff Schofield”, catalog by Hatch Art Gallery, Detroit, MI, July 2022
https://issuu.com/jeffschof/docs/atmospheric_pressures
Feighan, Mureen, “Local Environmentally-focused Artists Provoke Questions Beyond Earth Day”, The Detroit News, Arts & Style Section, 20 April 2022, pages 9B-10B
“Art Beat: Sustainable Art”, radio transmission by Zinta Aistars, aired on WMUK, Kalamazoo, MI, 21 Oct 2021
https://www.wmuk.org/post/art-beat-sustainable-art
Mishak, Shawn, “Environmental Artist Jeff Schofield Addresses Climate Change with “Seasonal Adjustments” Exhibition at KINK Contemporary”, Cleveland Scene Newspaper, Arts and Culture Section, Cleveland, OH, 12 May 2021
Panton, Steve, “A Matter of Degrees; the Art of Jeff Schofield”, catalog by KINK Contemporary Gallery, Cleveland, OH, May 2021
https://issuu.com/jeffschof/docs/seasonal_adjustments_catalog
Corbin, Madelaine, “Are we the weed or the wildflower?”, catalog by KINK Contemporary Gallery, Cleveland, OH, May 2021
https://issuu.com/jeffschof/docs/seasonal_adjustments_catalog/s/12105681
“Charred World”, TV transmission by Eric Olson about “Fragments of Human Geography” exhibition, aired on WPTA Channel 21, Fort Wayne, IN, 11 March 2020
“Four Degrees or More”, TV transmission by Kurt Roembke, aired on Access Fort Wayne, Channel 2, Fort Wayne, IN, 4 & 20 March 2020
“Final pieces of art show come together”, illustration by Michelle Davies, The Journal Gazette, Fort Wayne, IN, 19 February 2020, page A1
“Experiencing Perspectives”, exhibition catalog published by Mercedes Benz Financial Services, Farmington Hills, MI, October 2019 (also 2018)
Bowman-Layton, Nicole, “Peanut Factory hosts artists-in-residence”, illustration and interview, The Chowan Herald, 29 May 2019, pages A5-A6
Briedenbach, Emily, “Collective Terrain”, fine arts publication by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, December 2018
Seaman, Anna, “The Complicated Pattern: Unpicking and restitching the threads of Woven Identities”, catalog by The Project Space, NYU Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, July 2017
https://issuu.com/jeffschof/docs/final_catalog_pages/s/14378078
“The Best of 2016, International Emerging Artist Award”, catalog by Pixalib, France, March 2016, page 55