About Jill Hellman:
Jill Hellman is a New York City native and mixed-media artist with an extensive educational background. She received her B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan, her M.A. in Anthropology from NYU, and her M.S.W.at the Silver School of Social Work, also from NYU. Her works have been shown and collected on an international scale since 2016. She has also worked at more than ten residencies and has had her pieces displayed at various exhibitions.
Jill Hellman has an extensive background and career within the fine–art world alongside her work as a psychotherapist. She uses her background in this field to help inform her work, methodically drawing inspiration from her physical surroundings, as well as her internal landscape. Hellman’s favored materials include pastels, charcoal, and graphite, alongside experimenting with different approaches that add a distressed aesthetic to her canvases.
Artist Statement:
“When I step into my studio, I step into possibility.
I feel a freedom and excitement to explore my materials,
thoughts, ideas and emotions and connect with what is most true for me”.
Ethereal Garden
Jill Hellman is a mixed-media artist and a psychotherapist. She works intuitively, drawing inspiration from the environment and her own internal landscape. Each painting evolves through multiple layers of paint and collage, mark making with pastels, charcoal and graphite, and distressing the surface with a variety of tools. Her work is complex and deeply layered, often whimsical and playful, celebrating the strength and resilience of the human spirit.
In a search for truth, possibility and hope in challenging world, Jill’s paintings are a map of her quest to make peace with the chaos and complexity of being human. She invites the viewer to share and experience her creative journey and feel a sense of resolution, even if the resolution is momentary.
Jill shows and sells her work throughout the US and abroad.
Painting Workshops, Residencies:
Fearless Abstraction, painting workshop with Jane Burton, Santa Fe, NM, 2024
Unveiling Composition, painting workshop with Gordon Studer, New Orleans, LA, 2024
Deep Dive, 9-month painting workshop with Lauren Mantecon, 2024
Artist Residency, Chateaux D’Orquevaux, Orquevaux, France, 2023
The Artist’s Mindset, painting with Cheryl Taves, 2022
The Language of Color, painting with Mark Eanes, 2021
Exploring Abstraction, painting with Jenny Nelson, 2020
Abstraction By Design, workshop with Michael Shemchuck, 2018
Creative Visionary Program through Art2Life with Nicholas Wilton, 2017, 2019
Art2Life workshops 2017, 2018 with Nicholas Wilton
Rockland County Center for the Arts, Painting, 2018-2020
The Art School at Old Church, Painting, Drawing, Collage, 2011-2018
School of Visual Arts, painting, 1978
Art Student’s League, drawing,1976
Solo and Group Shows:
ART330 Group show, Leonia, NJ 2025
Solo Show, Cafe Leo, Leonia, NJ 2025
“Broad Strokes” – 6-person exhibition at Municipal Building, Leonia, NJ 2025
“Prelude,” 4-person guest artist exhibition, Piermont Flywheel Gallery, Piermont,
NY, 2025
“The Big Small Show 2024,” juried show at the Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ,
2024
“A Great Good Place,” Group show at Gallery Episode, Leonia, NJ, 2024
Manufacturer’s Village Artists Open Studios, East Orange, NJ, 2023
Eureka, Grand Opening show at Gallery Episode, Leonia, NJ, 2023
20 Years of College, Collage Collective exhibit, TASOC, Demarest, NJ, 2023
Exit 70A Artists Outdoor Art Show, Leonia, NJ 2022
“Sudden Impact,” one of 4 featured artists, Piermont Flywheel Gallery, Piermont,
NY, 2021
“Reverie,” group show at Piermont Flywheel Gallery, Piermont, NY, 202
“Brighter Days,” group show at Piermont Flywheel Gallery, Piermont, NY, 2021
“Small Works Winter 2021, juried show, National Society of Women Artists, NYC,
2021
“Escape Room,” group exhibition at Piermont Flywheel Gallery, Piermont, NY,
2021
KROMATIC@RT group show, International Contemporary Art Exhibition at
M.A.D.S. Gallery, Milan, Italy, 2021
“New Beginnings” group show at Van Der Plas Gallery, NYC, 2021
“A Season of Color & Light,” group show, Piermont Flywheel Gallery, Piermont,
NY, 2020
At the Art Fair, 16-artist outdoor installation in collaboration with the Artsgowanus
Brooklyn Art Walk, Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 2020
“Parlor Games” selected for 2021 National Collage Society Calendar, 2020
Exit 70A Outdoor Group Show, Leonia, NJ, 2020
Hansford & Sons Emerging Artists Online Platform, 2020
Art Basel Online Viewing Room, Group Exhibit, Brooklyn Edition, 2020
Solo Show, Cafe Mignon, Leonia, NJ, 2019
“Inside Small,” Juried show at The Stable Gallery, Ridgewood, NJ, 2019
The Art of Healing, Juried exhibition at Englewood Hospital, Englewood, NJ 2019
31st Annual Juried Exhibition, Art Alliance of Monmouth County, Red Bank, NJ,
2019
“Small Works Winter 2019,” Juried show, National Society of Women Artists,
NYC, 2019
“Collage/Mixed Media 2019 (The Art of Layering),” Juried show, National Society
of Women Artists, NYC, 2019
“7 Artists,” Group show, Hackensack Performing Arts Center Gallery,
Hackensack, NJ, 2019
“Inside Small,” Juried show, Outside In Gallery, Piermont, NY, 2018
“Moving into Abstraction,” Group Show, Palisades Free Library, Palisades, NY,
2018
Meet the Artists, Leonia, NJ, 2017
Collage Collective, Cottage Place Gallery, Unitarian Society of Ridgewood, NJ,
2016
“Small Works,” Juried show at TASOC, Demarest, NJ, 2015
Press and Publications:
“The Big Small Show 2024,” Catalogue for the Drawing Rooms Show, Jersey
City, NJ 2024
“Fun Size.” Selected for publication by Jen Tough Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2022
“Wild Lands.” Selected for publication by Jen Tough Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2022
Goddess Arts Magazine, Selected for Issue 4, March/April, 2022
Art Anthology III: Selected for Madrid Edition, 2021
WE Contemporary, Vol 6, Selected for International Art Catalog, Edition 2021
