In a career spanning four decades, Jeff Whipple has created highly acclaimed artwork that is uniquely distinctive and immediately recognizable. His signature style includes groupings of three short lines that have branded his art since the early 1980s. He has had 84 solo exhibitions in galleries, colleges and museums including the Tampa Museum of Art, the Gulf Coast Museum of Art, the Museum of Art, DeLand, and the Boca Raton Museum of Art. His art has been in dozens of group exhibitions across the USA and has received 51 top awards in competitions.

Whipple’s play “Spokesperson” was produced in Chicago in 2008 and his comedy, “Couch Potatoes of the 22nd Century” was produced in 2009 in Orlando. He’s had 17 other play productions since the mid-1980s. He’s won several playwriting awards including five Florida statewide playwriting competitions.

Whipple won the prestigious Florida Individual Artist Fellowship four times. It’s a highly competitive state funded grant selected by museum directors, curators, and arts professionals. He won the same type of grant in Illinois two times. One of his Florida fellowships was for Playwriting and all the others were for Visual Art. In 2001, he won the $10,000 Fulton Ross Grant based on career achievements. He received artist grants from the Community Foundation of Northeast Florida in 2017 and 2021. In 2018, he won a $25,000 artist grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

He’s had many public art commissions and recently created five sculptures for a park in St. Petersburg, Florida. Whipple’s paintings for a New Orleans library were selected as one of the 50 best public art projects in 2012 by the Public Art Network. His other public art commissions include an 80-foot-long video projection on the exterior of the Tampa Museum of Art, a 300-foot-long translucent lighted mural for the City of Tampa, and a 150-foot-long mural for a library in St. Petersburg, Florida. The Tampa Museum of Art commissioned Whipple to create a large-scale outdoor video and art installation in Miami Beach that was seen by hundreds of thousands during the week of Art Basel Miami in 2006. In 2014, he won a national competition to create a 75-foot-long mural for a high school in Washington, DC. In 2019, he won a national competition to paint two 26-foot murals for a primary school in Washington, DC.

In the 1980s, Whipple co-directed a printmaking atelier in Tampa, Florida where he collaborated with many renown artists including Jim Dine, Alice Aycock, James Rosenquist, and Robert Rauschenberg.

Whipple and his art exhibits have been reviewed or profiled in hundreds of magazine, radio, TV, and newspaper articles since 1978.

Whipple’s artwork is in dozens of corporate, municipal, college and museum collections.

He received an MFA from the University of South Florida in 1980. He has taught at several colleges including Arizona State University, Florida State University, and Northern Illinois University.

Jeff Whipple lives in a 12,000 square foot warehouse studio in Jacksonville, Florida.

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