Artist Bio and Statement
Bio:
Born in Quantico, Virginia and raised in a military family, Jeanine Hill-Soldner was enthusiastic about art from an early age. She won her first art award at age twelve and began her painting journey at age 15 in an artist’s studio. She has consistently been an art creator with a passion that continues today with her dynamic, representational paintings, and professional career spanned more than 35 years. She is an award winning nationally recognized Artist with a BA in Art from the University of Florida and MA in Art from University of Illinois. Her work is shown in museums and galleries regionally and nationally and notably in more than two hundred group and solo exhibits. Her work can be found in public and private collections in the US and Europe. She is founder of the seminal “Portraits of American Veterans Project” and “Memories of an Era” that were featured in 2017 at Chicago’s National Veterans Art Museum and in 2024 at Water Street Studios in Batavia, Illinois in a show titled “Portraits and Memories: Legacies of Service.”
PBS featured her artist profile while her artwork and her story can be found in numerous publications. In addition to her work with and about veterans Jeanine is constantly creating representational paintings in oil on canvas. Her professional membership includes the Chicago Women’s Caucus for Art, Chicago Society of Artists, and Chicago Association of Visual Artists and the Water Street Studios Artist Collective in Batavia, Illinois.
Artist Statement:
I received an award for my drawing at age twelve and that set me on my journey to make art my life’s work. My representational paintings explore pieces of the puzzle that make up the world. I invite the viewer to explore layers of color and delve deep into the surface of the painting in a dance of discovery. I am inspired by the changing visual fragments of everyday life, capturing the fleeting moments of human interactions. I am interested in the human impact on the natural world and nature’s ever shifting response. These transitory moments are the subjects that fuel my ongoing inquiry into the visual dialogue I passionately explore in my work. I want to create the illusion of deep space by building layers of shapes, color and carefully orchestrated light and shadows revealing the infinite spaces in between.
Education:
1995 Master of Art in Art Education, University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana
1978 Bachelor of Art in Art Education, University of Florida
Solo Museum/ Corporate/ Gallery Exhibits:
2025 “Portraits of American Veterans Project” First Congregational Church, Crystal Lake, IL
2025 “Jeanine Hill-Soldner Solo”, North Suburban YMCA, Northbrook, IL
2024 “Portraits and Memories” Water Street Studios Galleries, Batavia, IL
2023 “Summer in Chicago” Water Street Studios Gallery, Batavia, IL
2022 “Confluence”, Wadsworth Family Gallery, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
2020 “Portraits and Memories” Wadsworth Family Gallery, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
“Portraits and Memories” Water Street Studios Galleries, Batavia, IL
2018 “Portraits of American Veterans”, Algonquin Area Public Library, Algonquin, IL
2017 “Portraits and Memories; Legacies of Service”, National Veterans Art Museum, Chicago, IL
2016 “Portrait and Memories: Legacies of Service”, Sage Gallery, Crystal Lake, IL
2015 “Fluid Motion: Fresh Visions of Chicago at Play” Addison Center for the Arts. Addison, IL
“Fluid Motion: Fresh Visions of Chicago at Play” Old Courthouse Art Center, Woodstock, IL
“Portraits of American Veterans Project” Algonquin Public Library, Algonquin, IL
2014 “Portraits of American Veterans Project” Village of Addison Library & Village Hall, IL
“Eight Years: Beyond the Studio Solo Retrospective”, Sage Gallery, Crystal Lake, IL
2013 “Portraits of American Veterans Project” McHenry County Mental Health Board Gallery
2012 “Portraits of American Veterans Project”, GE Corporate Gallery, Fairfield, CT
2012 “Portraits of American Veterans Project”, Lake/ McHenry Veterans & Family Services Center, McHenry, IL
2011 “Portraits of American Veterans Project”, McHenry County College, McHenry, IL
“Portraits of American Veterans: Continuing the Dialogue” Algonquin Area Library
“Sight Seeing” Elgin Arts Showcase, Elgin, IL
2010 “Portraits of American Veterans: Continuing the Dialogue” Sage Gallery
2009 “Sightseeing”, Barrington Area Library Featured Exhibit, Barrington, IL
“Portraits of American Veterans: A Visual Dialogue” Sage Gallery, Crystal Lake
2007-08 “Memories of an Era”, National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum, Chicago, IL
2008 “Pilgrimage and Passages,” Sage Gallery, Lakeside Legacy Arts Park
2007 “Pilgrimage and Passages”, Prairie Center for the Arts, Schaumburg, IL
2005 Sage Gallery, Lakeside Legacy Arts Park, Crystal Lake, IL
2003 University of Illinois at Chicago, the Arts-Medicine Project Gallery
Luna Café Invitational Exhibit, Crystal Lake, IL
2002 Prairie Center for the Arts Gallery, Schaumburg, IL
2002 “Memories of an Era” Matteson Historical Museum, Matteson, IL
2001 Barrington Area Arts Council’s Barrington Library Gallery
1992 Coral Springs Artist Guild, Coral Springs, FL
Museum Group Exhibits
2012 Rockford Art Museum Biennial Regional Exhibit, Rockford, IL
2011 “From Artemesia to Freda” Koehnline Museum, Oakton Comm. College, Des Plaines,
2010 “Battledress A Woman’s View” National Veterans Art Museum, Chicago 2009 Milwaukee Art Museum, Group Exhibit with National Veterans Art Museum
2007-08 “Memories of an Era, Reflections of Our Time”, National Vietnam Veterans Art
Museum, Chicago, IL
2007 Museum of Fine Art Florida State University, “Family Experience in the 20th Century”, FL
Select Juried/ Invitational Exhibits
2026 CAVA Members Show, MANA Contemporary, Chicago, Judges Recognition
2025 Small Treasures CWCA Group Show, August House Gallery, Chicago, IL
10 x 10 Group Show, Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Landscape is Changing, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago
Midwest Landscape: It’s Beauty and Peril, Peabody Estate, Oakbrook, IL
Visual Storytelling, Blue Moon Gallery, Grayslake, IL
CAVA Members Show, Bidgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL
Contemporary Show, ALMA Gallery, Chicago, IL
Art of Gallery Invitational, Chicago, IL
Members Show, Water Street Studios, Batavia, IL
2024 CAVA Contemporary Show, Alma Art and Interiors, Chicago, IL
Chicago Society of Artists Members Exhibit, Gallery Seven, Lockport, IL
Later Impressions, CAVA, Elmhurst Artists Guild, Elmhurst, IL
Water Street Studios Collective, Water Street Studios, Batavia, IL
FERAL, Aurora Public Art Gallery, Aurora, IL
2023 Call to Duty: “Portraits of American Veterans”, Devonshire Cultural Center, Skokie, IL
Absurdity: In Dada We Trust, Art Center Highland Park, Highland Park, IL
Absurdity in Dada We Trust, Stola Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
The Happiness Show, CAVA, Epiphany Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL
Water Street Studio Artists Collective, Water Street Studios, Batavia, IL
CAVA 2023 Members Show, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL
Chicago Society of Artists Members Exhibit, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
TenXTen , Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago, IL
Robert Kameczura’s Circle of Friends, Water Street Studios Galleries, Batavia, IL
WSS Artist Collective, Water Street Studios Galleries, Batavia, IL
WSS Artist Collective at Tall Grass Artists Assoc., Park Forest, IL
Invitational Group Show: Starline Factory Building Gallery, Harvard, IL
Later Impressions” CAVA Juried Show, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Excellence Award
2022 Visions of Hope: Stola Contemporary Gallery, Chicago, IL
Voices and Visions: Art Center Highland Park, Highland Park, IL
Water Street Studios Artists Collective, Water Street Studios, Batavia, IL
Chicago Society of Artists 135 Ann. Show, Tall Grass Artists Assoc. Park Forest, IL
CAVA Small Works, North Shore Senior Center, Northfield, IL
CAVA Spring Show, Beverly Arts Center, Beverly, IL
CAVA Winter Exhibit, Mayslake Peabody Estate, Oak Brook, IL
2021 Reunion 2021: Tall Grass Arts Association, Forest Park, IL
Starline 4th Friday, Starline Gallery, Harvard, IL
Water Street Studios Artists Collective, Water Street Studios, Batavia, IL
Bridgeport Art Center Biennial Competition, Chicago, IL
Chicago Alliance of Visual Artists, Edgewater Artspace, Chicago, IL
2020 “We’re All in the Same Boat: or Are We?” Stola Contemporary Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Urban Life, Social Fabric”, Dank Haus Gallery, Chicago, IL
“CAVA Members Show” Virtual Online Gallery
2019 “The Sky’s the Limit” Tall Grass Artists Association, Park Forest, IL
“The Legacy Continues” Chicago Society of Artists, Lakeside Arts Park, Crystal Lake, IL
Elmhurst Artists Guild, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
“Open Wall” 47th Ward Alderman’s Office, Chicago, IL
“Humanity Rising II”, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018 “2018 Evanston + Vicinity Biennial”, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
“Taking an Art Trip”, Tall Grass Artists Association, Park Forest, IL
"Women of Courage: Homage to Andrea Harris”, Art Center Highland Park
“Nevertheless, She Persisted” Koehnline Museum of Art, Oakton Comm. College, Des Plaines
"eco-ART” The Art Center Highland Park, Highland Park, IL
OpenWall, “Connections”, 47th Ward Alderman’s Office, Chicago, IL
Gallery Seven, Chicago Society of Artists Membership Exhibit
Artists Showcase and Sale, Lakeside Arts Park, Crystal Lake, IL
Vanderpool Gallery, Chicago Society of Artists, Chicago, IL
2017 Chicago Society of Artists Membership Exhibit, Anderson Art Center, Kenosha, WI
“Listen” Invitational, Old Courthouse Art Center, Woodstock, IL
“Chicago Artists Interpret Shakespeare: As They Like It”, Water Street Studios, Batavia
“Transmogrification” Elmhurst Art Museum, Art Guild Gallery, Elmhurst, IL
Chicago Society of Artists Membership Exhibit, Gallery 7, Joliet, IL
2016 Small Treasures” Chicago WCA, August House Studio, Chicago, IL
“Caffeine X” Artists Breakfast Group, The New Studio, Evanston, IL
“Fearless”, Old Courthouse Art Center, Woodstock, IL
“Beyond Rosie the Riveter: Women and Work”, Koehnline Museum of Art, Oakton CC, IL
“Flora and Fauna”, August House Studio and Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Connections” Chicago Women’s Caucus for Art, Peabody Estate Gallery, Oakbrook, IL
“Faces not Forgotten” Genesis Art Supply Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Faces not Forgotten” Bloomingdale Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Faces not Forgotten” Phantom Gallery Chicago Network, Chicago, IL
2015 “Beverly Art Center Annual Regional Competition”, Chicago, IL
“Faces not Forgotten” Bloomingdale Gallery and Phantom Gallery, Chicago, IL
“You Looking at Me?” ARC Gallery, Chicago
“Ellipse”, Old Courthouse Art Center, Woodstock, IL
“Bridgeport Art Center 3rd Annual Competition, Chicago, IL
2014 “Identity Interpreted and Revealed, Self Portrait” National, Tall Grass Arts Assoc., IL
“Water a Universal Human Right” National, Robert Morris University, Chicago
2013 “Art El Fresco” Old Courthouse Art Center, Woodstock, IL
Chicago Women’s Caucus for Art Exhibition, Chicago
“Real People 2013” National Juried Exhibit, Woodstock, IL
“Showing Off”, Tall Grass Arts Assoc. Gallery Artists Show, Park Forest, IL
2012 “Revolution 2012” Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Elemental Flux” Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago, IL
25th Annual Women’s Works National Exhibit, Woodstock, IL
“Chicago Spring” Invitational, Fine Arts Building, Chicago, IL
Celebrating Women’s History Month, Northern Trust Bank, Chicago, IL
2011 “We Are a Connected Community” Tom Robinson Studio Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Honoring and Remembering” with NVAM, Northern Trust Bank, Chicago, IL
“Ethereal Fauna, the Artists Muse”, Carthage College, Wisconsin
“Art on the Eighth” Elgin Fine Arts Showcase, Elgin, IL
2010 “Workshop for Contemporary Artists 26th Annual Exhibit”, Woodstock, IL
“Chicago Art: Urban Pulse” Tom Robinson Gallery, Chicago
“Battle Dress, A Woman’s View” Charles St. Gallery, Beaufort, SC
“Off Center” Chicago Women’s Caucus for Art Regional, ARC Gallery, Chicago
“Fabulously Focused” Tall Grass Arts Assoc. Gallery Artist Ex., Park Forest, IL
“Next Wave Art Salon”, An Old Firehouse Gallery, Elgin, IL
2009 “VICINITY 09” Norris Gallery, Norris Cultural Center, St. Charles, IL
“Ethereal Fauna; The Artist’s Muse” Tom Robinson Gallery, Chicago, IL
“25th Anniversary Exhibit” Workshop for Contemporary Artists, Woodstock, IL
“Salute America” Accidental Gallery, Flat Iron Arts Building, Chicago, IL
“A Passion for Trees: Women Coast to Coast” Galeria Tonantzin Center for Arts and Humanities, San Juan Bautista, CA
Vet Art Project, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2008 Chicago Art Open, Chicago, IL
Peter Jones Gallery, Chicago IL
2007 Oakton Community College, Symbolism, Myth and Ritual
Peter Jones Gallery, Chicago, Women’s Caucus for the Arts Regional
ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL, “A Place at the Table” Women’s Caucus for Art
Workshop for Contemporary Artists 25th Exhibit, Woodstock, IL
2006 Livingston Center for Art and Culture, Livingston, Montana
Barrington Area Arts Council Gallery, Barrington, IL
2005 Peter Jones Gallery, Chicago, IL
Chicago Artist’s Coalition Chicago Art Open, Chicago, IL
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004 Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL
McHenry County Arts Showcase, Dole Mansion, Crystal Lake, IL
20 Annual Workshop for Contemporary Artists, Woodstock, IL
Urban Edges, Barrington Area Arts Council
Chicago Artist’s Coalition, Chicago Art Open
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Gallery, Batavia, IL
Prairie Center for the Arts, Schaumburg, IL
2003 Chicago Artist’s Coalition, “Chicago Art Open”
‘2003 Vicinity” Norris Gallery, St. Charles, IL
Hothouse Gallery, Chicago, IL
19th Annual Workshop for Contemporary Artists, Woodstock, IL
Raue Center for the Arts, Crystal Lake, IL
“The Chicago Solutions Show”, Gallery on Lake, Chicago
“Just Say No, Chicago Artists against the War”, Chicago Athenaeum
2002 Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL
Let There Be Light, Prairie State College, Chicago Heights, IL
Aurora Public Arts Commission Gallery, Aurora, IL
Workshop for Contemporary Artists 19th Annual Exhibit, Woodstock, IL
Urban Edges, Barrington Arts Council Gallery, Barrington, IL
15th Annual Women’s Works Exhibit, Woodstock, IL
“September 11, 2001, Exhibit”, Chicago Athenaeum, Schaumburg, IL
Real People Exhibit, Old Courthouse Art Center, Woodstock, IL
After 9/11 Exhibit, Old Courthouse Art Center, Woodstock, I
2001 Spotlight on the Arts, Campbell House Gallery, Geneva, IL
Fox Valley Arts Council Invitational, Aurora Public Arts Comm. Gallery
“Urban Edges”, Barrington Area Arts Council Gallery, Barrington, IL
Twelfth Annual Women’s Works Exhibit, Woodstock, IL
Curt Teich Postcard Archives, Lake County Museum, Waucondo, IL
2000 Chicago Art Open, Chicago Artists Coalition
Oakton Community College Gallery, Des Plaines, IL
Barrington Area Arts Council, Barrington, IL
1999 Feature Chair Lilith Fair, Celebrity Charity Chair Auction, Chicago
49th Annual Quad-State Juried Exhibition, Quincy, IL
12th Annual Women’s Works, Woodstock, IL
Urban Edges, Barrington Area Arts Council, Barrington, IL
1997 Norris Gallery, Vicinity Exhibition, St. Charles, IL
Feature Chair James Taylor, Celebrity Charity Chair Auction, Chicago
Norris Gallery, Artists for Watercolor, St. Charles, IL
Women’s Caucus for Art, 25th Anniversary National Exhibit, Chicago
1996 Postcard Art Exhibition, David Adler Cultural Center, Libertyville, IL
8th Annual Women’s Works, Woodstock, IL
1994 MANA Annual National Exhibition, Chicago, IL
State of the Art 93, New England Fine Art Institute, Boston, MA
1993 6th Annual Women’s Works, Woodstock, IL
1992 UNICEF Competition, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
1991 Bailey Hall Juried Exhibition, Coral Springs, FL
1990 39th Anniversary Exhibition, Broward Art Guild, Ft. Lauderdale
1990 Broward Art Guild 38th Anniversary Exhibit, FL.
Hollywood Art Guild Summer Showcase '90, Hollywood, FL
Gallery 2000, Coral Springs, FL
Chamber of Commerce Building, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Broward Art Guild Winter Exhibition, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Leonard Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale - Featured Artist Exhibit
1989 Hollywood Playhouse, Hollywood
Hollywood Artists Studio, Hollywood, FL
Business Volunteers in the Arts, Grand Opening Exhibition, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Leonard Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
1988 1989 Broward Art Guild Faculty Exhibit, Florida Atlantic University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Riverwalk Art Festival, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
1987 Spring Arts Festival, Gainesville, FL
Art in the Park, Plantation, FL
Fort Lauderdale Downtown Festival of the Arts, FL
1986 The Inverarry Show, Lauderhill, FL
Broward Community College, Ft. Lauderdale, Florid
Human Images Exhibition, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
7th Annual Summer Arts Festival, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Membership Exhibition, Broward Art Guild., FL
1984 Human Images Exhibition, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
1983- 1987 - Christmas in the Park Art Festival, Ft. Lauderdale Florida.
1983 Tri-County Watercolor and Ceramic Exhibit, Broward Art Guild., FL
Gallery Representation:
2021 - Present, Water Street Studios Artist Collective Gallery, IL
2006 - 2020 Sage Gallery, Lakeside Legacy Arts Park, Crystal Lake, IL
2004 - 2005 Jim Roden, the Framery, Ridgefield, IL
2002 - 2016, Old Courthouse Art Center, Woodstock, IL
2000 - 2002 Northwest Cultural Council Corporate Gallery Program
1989 - 1991Leonard Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
1990 - Gallery 2000, Coral Springs, FL
Grants Public Art Commissions:
2011-2013 Fiscal Sponsorship: Fractured Atlas
1999 Chicago Community Trust, Mural in Cook County Juvenile Court Bldg.
2015 Large Streetscape Mural, Cottage Restaurant, Crystal Lake, IL
1999 Mural for Cook County Juvenile Court Center, Chicago
1999 Mural Algonquin/Lake in the Hills Fire Department, Algonquin, IL
1997 Algonquin Area Public Library, Algonquin, IL
Awards:
2022 Later Impressions: CAVA Juried Show, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Excellence Award
2021 Bridgeport Art Center Biennial Competition, Chicago, IL Honorable Mention
2003 Barrington Area Arts Council, Barrington, IL, Award of Excellence
Northwest Area Arts Council 20th Ann., Woodstock, IL, Honorable Mention
2000 Spotlight on the Arts, Campbell House Gallery, Geneva, IL, Second Place
1996 Northwest Area Arts Council, Members Exhibit, Equal Merit
1995 Art in the Park, Founders’ Days Festival, Algonquin, IL, Best in Show
1994 Premier Exhibit of Fine Art, Woodstock, IL Artistic Merit
1992 Open Exhibit, Hollywood, FL Equal Merit
1991 Earth, Air, Fire and Water Exhibit, Ft. Lauderdale, Juror’s Choice
1987 Riverwalk Art Festival, Ft. Lauderdale, Judges Recognition
1986 8th Annual Summer Arts Festival, Ft. Lauderdale, Honorable Mention
1976 Florida Junior College Exhibit, Jacksonville, FL Honorable Mention
Permanent Public Collections:
National Veterans Art Museum, Chicago, IL
McHenry County States’s Attorney Office
Lakeside Legacy Arts Park, Crystal Lake, IL
Cook County Juvenile Court Center, Chicago, IL
McHenry County Government Center, IL
McHenry County Historical Society, Union, IL
Publications:
McHenry County Magazine, Shaw Publication: Feature Artist January 2013
McHenry County Living Magazine: Feature Story November 2011
Art Calendar, Business Magazine for Visual Artist: March 2008
Shaw Publications, Weekly Journals: March 2007
Tallahassee Democrat Newspaper, Tallahassee FL: June 2006
Artbeat Northwest Area Arts Council: November 2005
Palatine Countryside: June 2009
Daily Herald: May 2014, July 2011, February 2011, November 2009, November 2007, July 2007, March 2002, February 2000, July 1997 and August 1995.
The Courier-News: November 2007, November 2006, June 2004, August 2002, January 2002, July 2001, January 2000, September 1996, April 1994
Pioneer Press, Algonquin Countryside: November 2007, September 2004, June 2004, April 2002, August 2001, April 2000
Barrington Courier News June 2009
Welcome Home Magazine: April 1996, July 1995 May 1995,
Ft. Lauderdale News/Sun-Sentinel: February 1989, April 1985
Electronic Publications:
Explore Art Digital Magazine 2024
Examiner.com Chicago, Chicago Art Examiner September 2010
Crystal Lake Patch.com: November 2010, January 2011
Algonquin Patch.com: January 2010
Television and Radio:
Artbeat Chicago with Phil Ponce and Ed Peschke, PBS Channel 11, March 2003
Artist Profile, PBS “Real Simple” Nationally Syndicated Television, 2007-08
Fox News Chicago 2007
Artbeat Chicago WTTW 11, 2007
National Public Radio, “All Things Considered” November 2007
WRMN 1410 Radio Elgin
Y102.9 FM Radio, Crystal Lake, November 2009
“Getting to Know You” Huntley Radio WHRU 101.5 FM, June 2015
Radio Show Host on Huntley Radio WHRU 101.5 FM, 2016 - 2018
Bio:
Born in Quantico, Virginia and raised in a military family, Jeanine Hill-Soldner was enthusiastic about art from an early age. She won her first art award at age twelve and began her painting journey at age 15 in an artist’s studio. She has consistently been an art creator with a passion that continues today with her dynamic, representational paintings, and professional career spanned more than 35 years. She is an award winning nationally recognized Artist with a BA in Art from the University of Florida and MA in Art from University of Illinois. Her work is shown in museums and galleries regionally and nationally and notably in more than two hundred group and solo exhibits. Her work can be found in public and private collections in the US and Europe. She is founder of the seminal “Portraits of American Veterans Project” and “Memories of an Era” that were featured in 2017 at Chicago’s National Veterans Art Museum and in 2024 at Water Street Studios in Batavia, Illinois in a show titled “Portraits and Memories: Legacies of Service.”
PBS featured her artist profile while her artwork and her story can be found in numerous publications. In addition to her work with and about veterans Jeanine is constantly creating representational paintings in oil on canvas. Her professional membership includes the Chicago Women’s Caucus for Art, Chicago Society of Artists, and Chicago Association of Visual Artists and the Water Street Studios Artist Collective in Batavia, Illinois.
Artist Statement:
I received an award for my drawing at age twelve and that set me on my journey to make art my life’s work. My representational paintings explore pieces of the puzzle that make up the world. I invite the viewer to explore layers of color and delve deep into the surface of the painting in a dance of discovery. I am inspired by the changing visual fragments of everyday life, capturing the fleeting moments of human interactions. I am interested in the human impact on the natural world and nature’s ever shifting response. These transitory moments are the subjects that fuel my ongoing inquiry into the visual dialogue I passionately explore in my work. I want to create the illusion of deep space by building layers of shapes, color and carefully orchestrated light and shadows revealing the infinite spaces in between.
Education:
1995 Master of Art in Art Education, University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana
1978 Bachelor of Art in Art Education, University of Florida
Solo Museum/ Corporate/ Gallery Exhibits:
2025 “Portraits of American Veterans Project” First Congregational Church, Crystal Lake, IL
2025 “Jeanine Hill-Soldner Solo”, North Suburban YMCA, Northbrook, IL
2024 “Portraits and Memories” Water Street Studios Galleries, Batavia, IL
2023 “Summer in Chicago” Water Street Studios Gallery, Batavia, IL
2022 “Confluence”, Wadsworth Family Gallery, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
2020 “Portraits and Memories” Wadsworth Family Gallery, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
“Portraits and Memories” Water Street Studios Galleries, Batavia, IL
2018 “Portraits of American Veterans”, Algonquin Area Public Library, Algonquin, IL
2017 “Portraits and Memories; Legacies of Service”, National Veterans Art Museum, Chicago, IL
2016 “Portrait and Memories: Legacies of Service”, Sage Gallery, Crystal Lake, IL
2015 “Fluid Motion: Fresh Visions of Chicago at Play” Addison Center for the Arts. Addison, IL
“Fluid Motion: Fresh Visions of Chicago at Play” Old Courthouse Art Center, Woodstock, IL
“Portraits of American Veterans Project” Algonquin Public Library, Algonquin, IL
2014 “Portraits of American Veterans Project” Village of Addison Library & Village Hall, IL
“Eight Years: Beyond the Studio Solo Retrospective”, Sage Gallery, Crystal Lake, IL
2013 “Portraits of American Veterans Project” McHenry County Mental Health Board Gallery
2012 “Portraits of American Veterans Project”, GE Corporate Gallery, Fairfield, CT
2012 “Portraits of American Veterans Project”, Lake/ McHenry Veterans & Family Services Center, McHenry, IL
2011 “Portraits of American Veterans Project”, McHenry County College, McHenry, IL
“Portraits of American Veterans: Continuing the Dialogue” Algonquin Area Library
“Sight Seeing” Elgin Arts Showcase, Elgin, IL
2010 “Portraits of American Veterans: Continuing the Dialogue” Sage Gallery
2009 “Sightseeing”, Barrington Area Library Featured Exhibit, Barrington, IL
“Portraits of American Veterans: A Visual Dialogue” Sage Gallery, Crystal Lake
2007-08 “Memories of an Era”, National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum, Chicago, IL
2008 “Pilgrimage and Passages,” Sage Gallery, Lakeside Legacy Arts Park
2007 “Pilgrimage and Passages”, Prairie Center for the Arts, Schaumburg, IL
2005 Sage Gallery, Lakeside Legacy Arts Park, Crystal Lake, IL
2003 University of Illinois at Chicago, the Arts-Medicine Project Gallery
Luna Café Invitational Exhibit, Crystal Lake, IL
2002 Prairie Center for the Arts Gallery, Schaumburg, IL
2002 “Memories of an Era” Matteson Historical Museum, Matteson, IL
2001 Barrington Area Arts Council’s Barrington Library Gallery
1992 Coral Springs Artist Guild, Coral Springs, FL
Museum Group Exhibits
2012 Rockford Art Museum Biennial Regional Exhibit, Rockford, IL
2011 “From Artemesia to Freda” Koehnline Museum, Oakton Comm. College, Des Plaines,
2010 “Battledress A Woman’s View” National Veterans Art Museum, Chicago 2009 Milwaukee Art Museum, Group Exhibit with National Veterans Art Museum
2007-08 “Memories of an Era, Reflections of Our Time”, National Vietnam Veterans Art
Museum, Chicago, IL
2007 Museum of Fine Art Florida State University, “Family Experience in the 20th Century”, FL
Select Juried/ Invitational Exhibits
2026 CAVA Members Show, MANA Contemporary, Chicago, Judges Recognition
2025 Small Treasures CWCA Group Show, August House Gallery, Chicago, IL
10 x 10 Group Show, Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Landscape is Changing, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago
Midwest Landscape: It’s Beauty and Peril, Peabody Estate, Oakbrook, IL
Visual Storytelling, Blue Moon Gallery, Grayslake, IL
CAVA Members Show, Bidgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL
Contemporary Show, ALMA Gallery, Chicago, IL
Art of Gallery Invitational, Chicago, IL
Members Show, Water Street Studios, Batavia, IL
2024 CAVA Contemporary Show, Alma Art and Interiors, Chicago, IL
Chicago Society of Artists Members Exhibit, Gallery Seven, Lockport, IL
Later Impressions, CAVA, Elmhurst Artists Guild, Elmhurst, IL
Water Street Studios Collective, Water Street Studios, Batavia, IL
FERAL, Aurora Public Art Gallery, Aurora, IL
2023 Call to Duty: “Portraits of American Veterans”, Devonshire Cultural Center, Skokie, IL
Absurdity: In Dada We Trust, Art Center Highland Park, Highland Park, IL
Absurdity in Dada We Trust, Stola Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
The Happiness Show, CAVA, Epiphany Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL
Water Street Studio Artists Collective, Water Street Studios, Batavia, IL
CAVA 2023 Members Show, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL
Chicago Society of Artists Members Exhibit, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
TenXTen , Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago, IL
Robert Kameczura’s Circle of Friends, Water Street Studios Galleries, Batavia, IL
WSS Artist Collective, Water Street Studios Galleries, Batavia, IL
WSS Artist Collective at Tall Grass Artists Assoc., Park Forest, IL
Invitational Group Show: Starline Factory Building Gallery, Harvard, IL
Later Impressions” CAVA Juried Show, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Excellence Award
2022 Visions of Hope: Stola Contemporary Gallery, Chicago, IL
Voices and Visions: Art Center Highland Park, Highland Park, IL
Water Street Studios Artists Collective, Water Street Studios, Batavia, IL
Chicago Society of Artists 135 Ann. Show, Tall Grass Artists Assoc. Park Forest, IL
CAVA Small Works, North Shore Senior Center, Northfield, IL
CAVA Spring Show, Beverly Arts Center, Beverly, IL
CAVA Winter Exhibit, Mayslake Peabody Estate, Oak Brook, IL
2021 Reunion 2021: Tall Grass Arts Association, Forest Park, IL
Starline 4th Friday, Starline Gallery, Harvard, IL
Water Street Studios Artists Collective, Water Street Studios, Batavia, IL
Bridgeport Art Center Biennial Competition, Chicago, IL
Chicago Alliance of Visual Artists, Edgewater Artspace, Chicago, IL
2020 “We’re All in the Same Boat: or Are We?” Stola Contemporary Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Urban Life, Social Fabric”, Dank Haus Gallery, Chicago, IL
“CAVA Members Show” Virtual Online Gallery
2019 “The Sky’s the Limit” Tall Grass Artists Association, Park Forest, IL
“The Legacy Continues” Chicago Society of Artists, Lakeside Arts Park, Crystal Lake, IL
Elmhurst Artists Guild, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
“Open Wall” 47th Ward Alderman’s Office, Chicago, IL
“Humanity Rising II”, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018 “2018 Evanston + Vicinity Biennial”, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
“Taking an Art Trip”, Tall Grass Artists Association, Park Forest, IL
"Women of Courage: Homage to Andrea Harris”, Art Center Highland Park
“Nevertheless, She Persisted” Koehnline Museum of Art, Oakton Comm. College, Des Plaines
"eco-ART” The Art Center Highland Park, Highland Park, IL
OpenWall, “Connections”, 47th Ward Alderman’s Office, Chicago, IL
Gallery Seven, Chicago Society of Artists Membership Exhibit
Artists Showcase and Sale, Lakeside Arts Park, Crystal Lake, IL
Vanderpool Gallery, Chicago Society of Artists, Chicago, IL
2017 Chicago Society of Artists Membership Exhibit, Anderson Art Center, Kenosha, WI
“Listen” Invitational, Old Courthouse Art Center, Woodstock, IL
“Chicago Artists Interpret Shakespeare: As They Like It”, Water Street Studios, Batavia
“Transmogrification” Elmhurst Art Museum, Art Guild Gallery, Elmhurst, IL
Chicago Society of Artists Membership Exhibit, Gallery 7, Joliet, IL
2016 Small Treasures” Chicago WCA, August House Studio, Chicago, IL
“Caffeine X” Artists Breakfast Group, The New Studio, Evanston, IL
“Fearless”, Old Courthouse Art Center, Woodstock, IL
“Beyond Rosie the Riveter: Women and Work”, Koehnline Museum of Art, Oakton CC, IL
“Flora and Fauna”, August House Studio and Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Connections” Chicago Women’s Caucus for Art, Peabody Estate Gallery, Oakbrook, IL
“Faces not Forgotten” Genesis Art Supply Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Faces not Forgotten” Bloomingdale Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Faces not Forgotten” Phantom Gallery Chicago Network, Chicago, IL
2015 “Beverly Art Center Annual Regional Competition”, Chicago, IL
“Faces not Forgotten” Bloomingdale Gallery and Phantom Gallery, Chicago, IL
“You Looking at Me?” ARC Gallery, Chicago
“Ellipse”, Old Courthouse Art Center, Woodstock, IL
“Bridgeport Art Center 3rd Annual Competition, Chicago, IL
2014 “Identity Interpreted and Revealed, Self Portrait” National, Tall Grass Arts Assoc., IL
“Water a Universal Human Right” National, Robert Morris University, Chicago
2013 “Art El Fresco” Old Courthouse Art Center, Woodstock, IL
Chicago Women’s Caucus for Art Exhibition, Chicago
“Real People 2013” National Juried Exhibit, Woodstock, IL
“Showing Off”, Tall Grass Arts Assoc. Gallery Artists Show, Park Forest, IL
2012 “Revolution 2012” Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Elemental Flux” Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago, IL
25th Annual Women’s Works National Exhibit, Woodstock, IL
“Chicago Spring” Invitational, Fine Arts Building, Chicago, IL
Celebrating Women’s History Month, Northern Trust Bank, Chicago, IL
2011 “We Are a Connected Community” Tom Robinson Studio Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Honoring and Remembering” with NVAM, Northern Trust Bank, Chicago, IL
“Ethereal Fauna, the Artists Muse”, Carthage College, Wisconsin
“Art on the Eighth” Elgin Fine Arts Showcase, Elgin, IL
2010 “Workshop for Contemporary Artists 26th Annual Exhibit”, Woodstock, IL
“Chicago Art: Urban Pulse” Tom Robinson Gallery, Chicago
“Battle Dress, A Woman’s View” Charles St. Gallery, Beaufort, SC
“Off Center” Chicago Women’s Caucus for Art Regional, ARC Gallery, Chicago
“Fabulously Focused” Tall Grass Arts Assoc. Gallery Artist Ex., Park Forest, IL
“Next Wave Art Salon”, An Old Firehouse Gallery, Elgin, IL
2009 “VICINITY 09” Norris Gallery, Norris Cultural Center, St. Charles, IL
“Ethereal Fauna; The Artist’s Muse” Tom Robinson Gallery, Chicago, IL
“25th Anniversary Exhibit” Workshop for Contemporary Artists, Woodstock, IL
“Salute America” Accidental Gallery, Flat Iron Arts Building, Chicago, IL
“A Passion for Trees: Women Coast to Coast” Galeria Tonantzin Center for Arts and Humanities, San Juan Bautista, CA
Vet Art Project, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2008 Chicago Art Open, Chicago, IL
Peter Jones Gallery, Chicago IL
2007 Oakton Community College, Symbolism, Myth and Ritual
Peter Jones Gallery, Chicago, Women’s Caucus for the Arts Regional
ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL, “A Place at the Table” Women’s Caucus for Art
Workshop for Contemporary Artists 25th Exhibit, Woodstock, IL
2006 Livingston Center for Art and Culture, Livingston, Montana
Barrington Area Arts Council Gallery, Barrington, IL
2005 Peter Jones Gallery, Chicago, IL
Chicago Artist’s Coalition Chicago Art Open, Chicago, IL
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004 Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL
McHenry County Arts Showcase, Dole Mansion, Crystal Lake, IL
20 Annual Workshop for Contemporary Artists, Woodstock, IL
Urban Edges, Barrington Area Arts Council
Chicago Artist’s Coalition, Chicago Art Open
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Gallery, Batavia, IL
Prairie Center for the Arts, Schaumburg, IL
2003 Chicago Artist’s Coalition, “Chicago Art Open”
‘2003 Vicinity” Norris Gallery, St. Charles, IL
Hothouse Gallery, Chicago, IL
19th Annual Workshop for Contemporary Artists, Woodstock, IL
Raue Center for the Arts, Crystal Lake, IL
“The Chicago Solutions Show”, Gallery on Lake, Chicago
“Just Say No, Chicago Artists against the War”, Chicago Athenaeum
2002 Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL
Let There Be Light, Prairie State College, Chicago Heights, IL
Aurora Public Arts Commission Gallery, Aurora, IL
Workshop for Contemporary Artists 19th Annual Exhibit, Woodstock, IL
Urban Edges, Barrington Arts Council Gallery, Barrington, IL
15th Annual Women’s Works Exhibit, Woodstock, IL
“September 11, 2001, Exhibit”, Chicago Athenaeum, Schaumburg, IL
Real People Exhibit, Old Courthouse Art Center, Woodstock, IL
After 9/11 Exhibit, Old Courthouse Art Center, Woodstock, I
2001 Spotlight on the Arts, Campbell House Gallery, Geneva, IL
Fox Valley Arts Council Invitational, Aurora Public Arts Comm. Gallery
“Urban Edges”, Barrington Area Arts Council Gallery, Barrington, IL
Twelfth Annual Women’s Works Exhibit, Woodstock, IL
Curt Teich Postcard Archives, Lake County Museum, Waucondo, IL
2000 Chicago Art Open, Chicago Artists Coalition
Oakton Community College Gallery, Des Plaines, IL
Barrington Area Arts Council, Barrington, IL
1999 Feature Chair Lilith Fair, Celebrity Charity Chair Auction, Chicago
49th Annual Quad-State Juried Exhibition, Quincy, IL
12th Annual Women’s Works, Woodstock, IL
Urban Edges, Barrington Area Arts Council, Barrington, IL
1997 Norris Gallery, Vicinity Exhibition, St. Charles, IL
Feature Chair James Taylor, Celebrity Charity Chair Auction, Chicago
Norris Gallery, Artists for Watercolor, St. Charles, IL
Women’s Caucus for Art, 25th Anniversary National Exhibit, Chicago
1996 Postcard Art Exhibition, David Adler Cultural Center, Libertyville, IL
8th Annual Women’s Works, Woodstock, IL
1994 MANA Annual National Exhibition, Chicago, IL
State of the Art 93, New England Fine Art Institute, Boston, MA
1993 6th Annual Women’s Works, Woodstock, IL
1992 UNICEF Competition, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
1991 Bailey Hall Juried Exhibition, Coral Springs, FL
1990 39th Anniversary Exhibition, Broward Art Guild, Ft. Lauderdale
1990 Broward Art Guild 38th Anniversary Exhibit, FL.
Hollywood Art Guild Summer Showcase '90, Hollywood, FL
Gallery 2000, Coral Springs, FL
Chamber of Commerce Building, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Broward Art Guild Winter Exhibition, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Leonard Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale - Featured Artist Exhibit
1989 Hollywood Playhouse, Hollywood
Hollywood Artists Studio, Hollywood, FL
Business Volunteers in the Arts, Grand Opening Exhibition, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Leonard Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
1988 1989 Broward Art Guild Faculty Exhibit, Florida Atlantic University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Riverwalk Art Festival, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
1987 Spring Arts Festival, Gainesville, FL
Art in the Park, Plantation, FL
Fort Lauderdale Downtown Festival of the Arts, FL
1986 The Inverarry Show, Lauderhill, FL
Broward Community College, Ft. Lauderdale, Florid
Human Images Exhibition, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
7th Annual Summer Arts Festival, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Membership Exhibition, Broward Art Guild., FL
1984 Human Images Exhibition, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
1983- 1987 - Christmas in the Park Art Festival, Ft. Lauderdale Florida.
1983 Tri-County Watercolor and Ceramic Exhibit, Broward Art Guild., FL
Gallery Representation:
2021 - Present, Water Street Studios Artist Collective Gallery, IL
2006 - 2020 Sage Gallery, Lakeside Legacy Arts Park, Crystal Lake, IL
2004 - 2005 Jim Roden, the Framery, Ridgefield, IL
2002 - 2016, Old Courthouse Art Center, Woodstock, IL
2000 - 2002 Northwest Cultural Council Corporate Gallery Program
1989 - 1991Leonard Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
1990 - Gallery 2000, Coral Springs, FL
Grants Public Art Commissions:
2011-2013 Fiscal Sponsorship: Fractured Atlas
1999 Chicago Community Trust, Mural in Cook County Juvenile Court Bldg.
2015 Large Streetscape Mural, Cottage Restaurant, Crystal Lake, IL
1999 Mural for Cook County Juvenile Court Center, Chicago
1999 Mural Algonquin/Lake in the Hills Fire Department, Algonquin, IL
1997 Algonquin Area Public Library, Algonquin, IL
Awards:
2022 Later Impressions: CAVA Juried Show, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Excellence Award
2021 Bridgeport Art Center Biennial Competition, Chicago, IL Honorable Mention
2003 Barrington Area Arts Council, Barrington, IL, Award of Excellence
Northwest Area Arts Council 20th Ann., Woodstock, IL, Honorable Mention
2000 Spotlight on the Arts, Campbell House Gallery, Geneva, IL, Second Place
1996 Northwest Area Arts Council, Members Exhibit, Equal Merit
1995 Art in the Park, Founders’ Days Festival, Algonquin, IL, Best in Show
1994 Premier Exhibit of Fine Art, Woodstock, IL Artistic Merit
1992 Open Exhibit, Hollywood, FL Equal Merit
1991 Earth, Air, Fire and Water Exhibit, Ft. Lauderdale, Juror’s Choice
1987 Riverwalk Art Festival, Ft. Lauderdale, Judges Recognition
1986 8th Annual Summer Arts Festival, Ft. Lauderdale, Honorable Mention
1976 Florida Junior College Exhibit, Jacksonville, FL Honorable Mention
Permanent Public Collections:
National Veterans Art Museum, Chicago, IL
McHenry County States’s Attorney Office
Lakeside Legacy Arts Park, Crystal Lake, IL
Cook County Juvenile Court Center, Chicago, IL
McHenry County Government Center, IL
McHenry County Historical Society, Union, IL
Publications:
McHenry County Magazine, Shaw Publication: Feature Artist January 2013
McHenry County Living Magazine: Feature Story November 2011
Art Calendar, Business Magazine for Visual Artist: March 2008
Shaw Publications, Weekly Journals: March 2007
Tallahassee Democrat Newspaper, Tallahassee FL: June 2006
Artbeat Northwest Area Arts Council: November 2005
Palatine Countryside: June 2009
Daily Herald: May 2014, July 2011, February 2011, November 2009, November 2007, July 2007, March 2002, February 2000, July 1997 and August 1995.
The Courier-News: November 2007, November 2006, June 2004, August 2002, January 2002, July 2001, January 2000, September 1996, April 1994
Pioneer Press, Algonquin Countryside: November 2007, September 2004, June 2004, April 2002, August 2001, April 2000
Barrington Courier News June 2009
Welcome Home Magazine: April 1996, July 1995 May 1995,
Ft. Lauderdale News/Sun-Sentinel: February 1989, April 1985
Electronic Publications:
Explore Art Digital Magazine 2024
Examiner.com Chicago, Chicago Art Examiner September 2010
Crystal Lake Patch.com: November 2010, January 2011
Algonquin Patch.com: January 2010
Television and Radio:
Artbeat Chicago with Phil Ponce and Ed Peschke, PBS Channel 11, March 2003
Artist Profile, PBS “Real Simple” Nationally Syndicated Television, 2007-08
Fox News Chicago 2007
Artbeat Chicago WTTW 11, 2007
National Public Radio, “All Things Considered” November 2007
WRMN 1410 Radio Elgin
Y102.9 FM Radio, Crystal Lake, November 2009
“Getting to Know You” Huntley Radio WHRU 101.5 FM, June 2015
Radio Show Host on Huntley Radio WHRU 101.5 FM, 2016 - 2018