TEACHING ARTIST

Jimmy Miracle is an American visual artist working across the genres of painting, installation, and social practice using traditional and non-traditional forms of investigating perception, memory, observation, and awareness. Born in Ohio in 1983, Miracle received his MFA from UC Santa Barbara in 2018 and a B.A. in studio art, magna cum laude from Belhaven University in 2004 in Jackson, MS. He has lived and worked in Florida, Mississippi, New York City, New Jersey, Washington DC, Maryland, Germany, California, and Iowa City. He has had solo and group shows in New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, London, and Washington, DC exhibiting at Ziehersmith, Outlet Fine Art, HKJB, The Smithsonian Museum of American Art, The Islip Art Museum, Castle Gallery, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and Flashpoint Gallery among others as an installation artist and painter. He worked as a studio painting assistant for Jeff Koons, and studied classical drawing, painting, and sculpture at the Art Student’s League of New York and Chelsea Classical Studio with Michael Grimaldi, Brandon Soloff, Dan Thompson, and Steve Perkins. He has received the Cultural DC Creative Communities Fund Grant, the Maryland State Art Council Individual Artist Grant, the Howard Fenton Award for Painting, and the Levitan Fellowship among others, and has lectured at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. He teaches color, composition, portraiture, life drawing, and painting in Universities, workshops, and out of his studio in Iowa City.