Jeff Thompson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He currently lives and works in New York. Thompson received his BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2004. Thompson received his MFA from Rutgers University Mason Gross School of Art in 2006.

Thompson's work uses similes, amplification, distillation, and chaotic systems to build sculpture, sound, and performance works. Materials are not transformed, but are surfaces of potential. Layering and sifting systems are used by which small bits are organized in a way that is at once ecological, poetic, and conceptual. Scintillations found in macro experience are amplified within a chaotic system. Subtle chance variations are made manifest.

Thompson has exhibited his work in the US and internationally, most recently at Hogar Collection Gallery in Brooklyn, NY; Ohio State University Gallery in Columbus, OH; and Elsewhere Artist Collaborative in Greensboro, NC. Among various awards received, Thompson was selected for the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art at the Weisman Museum of Art, a residency at the Department of Safety, and a series of video works commissioned by Dispatx.com.

His sound work is currently traveling with SoundLab, which has been exhibited at museums and galleries in Palestine, Italy, Poland, and Argentina.

In addition to his artwork, Thompson has taught courses at Rutgers University in New Jersey, 3 rd Ward in New York. He is currently faculty at the Transart Institute, a low-residency multidisciplinary MFA program based in Linz, Austria.

http://www.jeffreythompson.org

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