Originally trained as an anthropologist, Jeff has been a practicing artist for two decades. He has had recent solo exhibitions at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT, Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT, and the Mercy Gallery at the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, CT. His upcoming solo exhibitions include Ball & Socket Arts in Cheshire, CT (Fall 2026) and the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, CT (2027). He has shown in numerous group exhibitions throughout New York, Los Angeles, Europe, and New England, most recently at Klaus von Nichtssagend gallery in New York City.
Ostergren is a recipient of a 2026 Creative Capital Grant. He also has received a 2024 Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant from the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, where he exhibited work alongside other recipients in Spring 2025. Ostergren has also received support from the Puffin Foundation, the Connecticut Office of the Arts, and the Bitsie Clark Fund for Artists.
Ostergren received his MFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, in 2006, following a BA in a double major of anthropology and gender studies at Rice University in Houston, TX, in 1998. He lives and works in New Haven, CT.
Photo by Jessica Smolinkski
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