Jeff Whipple has had 81 solo exhibitions throughout the USA. He has participated in dozens of group exhibitions across the country and won numerous top awards in art competitions.

He has also worked as a playwright and his plays have been in 19 productions.  He’s won several playwriting awards including five Florida statewide playwriting competitions.

He has had solo exhibits at the Tampa Museum of Art, the Gulf Coast Museum of Art, the Museum of Florida Art, the Eustis Museum of Art and the Boca Raton Museum of Art. His art has been in group shows at the Jacksonville Museum of Art, the Ringling Museum, the Naples Museum of Art, the Orlando Museum, the Danforth Museum of Art, the Polk Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

His play “Spokesperson” was produced in Chicago in 2008 and his comedy, “Couch Potatoes of the 22^nd Century” was produced in 2009 in Orlando.

He has received five state arts council individual artist fellowships: Two from Illinois in 1985 and 1990 and three from Florida in 1982, 1996 and 2006. The 1996 Florida fellowship was for Playwriting and Whipple remains the only Florida artist awarded fellowships in two different disciplines. In 2001, he was the first recipient of the annual Fulton Ross Award, a $10,000 grant based on career achievements.

Whipple’s public art commissions include an 80-foot wide video on the façade of the Tampa Museum of Art, a 300-foot long hand-painted, lighted mural for the City of Tampa and a 150-foot long oil painting mural for the Johnson Library in St. Petersburg, Florida. He was commissioned to create a large-scale video/sound installation on a Miami Beach hotel façade during the week of Art Basel Miami in 2006. In 2011, Whipple received a $40,000 commission to create several paintings for a library in New Orleans, Lousiana.

Whipple received a MFA from the University of South Florida in 1980. He has taught at several colleges including Arizona State University and Northern Illinois University. He currently teaches at Florida State University.

Jeff Whipple lives in Tallahassee, Florida. He has a studio/gallery in the Railroad Square Art Park.