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Jeffrey Mongrain (born International Falls, Minnesota in 1956) is an American sculptor and Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History at Hunter College.

He received his BFA from the University of Minnesota and MFA from Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, Illinois.

Mongrain creates both gallery-based works and site-specific pieces. The sited works are primarily located in spiritual spaces. His gallery-based sculptures are reductive and generally reference iconic forms. There is a compelling oblique narrative suggested by Mongrain’s sculptures that also reflects an autobiographical politic. Scientific findings and religious philosophy are the conceptual foundation of his emotive forms. His artwork is represented by the Perimeter Gallery of Chicago and Loveed Fine Arts in New York City. He currently lives and works in New York City.

Exhibitions
Recent solo exhibitions include The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, MO, The San Angelo Museum of Fine Art in San Angelo, TX, The National Museum of Catholic Art in New York City, The Diego Rivera Museum in Guanajuato, Mexico, the Temple Gallery in Rome, Italy, The Newcastle Regional Art Gallery in Australia, The Museo de Antropologia in Mexico, the John Elder Gallery in New York City, and the Perimeter Gallery in Chicago. Jeffrey has also represented the United States in the Sharjah Biennial in the United Arab Emirates, and the 8th Triennial at The Museum of Arts and Design in New York and the Museum fur Angewandte Kunst in Frankfort, Germany.

Collections
His work is included in the permanent collections of 31 art museums around the world, including the Museum of Arts and Design; Sharjah Museum in the United Arab Emirates; Museum of Modern Art in the Dominican Republic; Museo di Arte Sacred di San Gabriele in Teramo, Italy; Diego Rivera Museum in Mexico; The National Museum in Newcastle, Australia; Yingge Ceramics Museum in Taiwan; Incheon Museum in South Korea, Museo de Antropología de Xalapa in Mexico; Museu de Ceràmica de l’Alcora in Castellón, Spain; Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Missouri; and the Schien-Joseph International Museum of Contemporary Art at Alfred University in New York State.

Awards
Professor Mongrain has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), The George Millard Fellowship, The Silver Award from the Korean Biennial, the Purchase Award for the Sharjah Biennial, the Ford Fellowship, the Dominican Republic Triennial Purchase Award, the Bush Foundation award, the Bronze Award for drawing from Australia, and the CUNY Presidential Award for Excellence in Creative Activity.

Critical reviews
David Revere McFadden

“Jeffrey Mongrain takes the viewer on a journey in to the world of experience and meaning on several concurrent levels. Physically and visually, Mongrain’s forms are simple, elegant and even austere, drawing upon the humble elements of the tangible world with which we are entirely familiar and comfortable. The form is revealed with grace and virtuosity. At the same time, each of these forms encase mysteries, these are the secrets of association, reference, memory and science that inhabit Mongrain’s world.”

Eleanor Heartney Art in America’s Contributing Editor

“Jeffrey Mongrain brings a human dimension to abstracted yet iconic forms. Obliquely references personal metaphor, history, science, sensuality, and the pervasive echoes of sacred spaces he astutely balances form and content. Mongrain’s richly coded images are visually quiet, physically eloquent and conceptually meaningful.”