Jessica Gondek is an artist/teacher living in the Chicago area. She received her M.F.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, and her B.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Ms Gondek is a tenured Associate Professor at Loyola University Chicago and teaches drawing and painting in the Department of Fine and Perfoming Art. She has taught previously at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas.
Ms. Gondek has received a number of prestigious awards and residencies recognizing her creative work over the years. Notable is a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Artist Grant, a Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Grant, and a Mid-America Arts Alliance National Endowment for the Arts Grant. Ms. Gondek has been recognized with a number of international artist residency awards. She has been an artist in residence at the Can Serrat International Art Center in Spain, and at the Frans Masereel Center in Belgium. Her selection for these awards is testimony to the significance of her work.
Jessica Gondek has exhibited widely and has her work represented in many public collections. Ms. Gondek has an upcoming solo exhibition at A.I.R. gallery in Brooklyn. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Phoenix Gallery in New York, the Northern Illinois University Art Museum, the Butler Institute of American Art Beecher Center in Youngstown, Ohio, and the Abdijhoeve Ten Bogaerde Cultural Art Center in Belgium. Her work has been selected for numerous international and national juried exhibitions.
Ms. Gondek is a member of ARC Gallery and Educational Foundation and Woman Made Galleries in Chicago.