Jill Downen (born 1967) is an American sculptor and installation artist, and an assistant professor of sculpture at the
Kansas City Art Institute. She received a
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...
in 2010.
She was born in
Belleville, Illinois
Belleville is a city and the county seat of St. Clair County, Illinois, coterminous with the now defunct Belleville Township. It is also the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Belleville and the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows. The p ...
in 1967, the daughter of a sign painter. She was awarded a BFA in painting from Kansas City Art Institute in 1989 and an MFA in sculpture from
Washington University in St. Louis in 2001.
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She commonly works in white plaster. According to Ivy Cooper, Downen "has made a career of exploring the intersection of bodies and architecture".][
Her exhibitions include ''Hard Hat Optional'' at Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis in 2009,]
References
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1967 births
Living people
Artists from Illinois
Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts alumni
Kansas City Art Institute alumni
Kansas City Art Institute faculty
People from Belleville, Illinois