BIO

Seattle born artist Jody Isaacson earned her B.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin (1981) and her M.F.A. from the California College of Art (1983).

Her work has been shown at KIPNZ in Walton, NY (2023), the Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA, (1984-2021), Franklin Stage Co., Franklin. NY, (2019) the Hyde Collection in Glen Falls, NY (2016), St. Catherine University, St Paul, MN (2015), the Arts Club in Washington DC (2009), the Albuquerque Museum (2003), the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe (2003), The Print Club in Philadelphia (1992 and 1993), the Nevada Art Museum in Reno (1990), and Maryhurst College (1989).

She has received many grants and awards including a Visual Arts Fellowship by the NEA/Westaf Visual Arts Fellowship, an Art Matters, Inc Support Grant, the Berthe von Moschzisker Award and Print Club Selection Award from The Print Club in Philadelphia, a Maryland Federation of Arts Small Projects Grant and an Individual Artist Grant from the Washington DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, 2 Creative Projects Grants from the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, Maryland, an Individual Artist Award: Painting from the Maryland State Arts Council. She has done multiple residencies including the Ceramic Residency, Township 10, Marshall, North Carolina, Print Residency, Art Union of Hungarian Etchers and Lithographers, Budapest, Hungary, Print Residency, Centrum, Port Townshend, WA, and a Painting Residency, Ucross Foundation, Ucross, Wyoming.

Currently she is a Community Creative resident at the Bloedel Reserve, Bainbridge Island, Washington. She is the executive director of the David Byrd Estate, an artist she met a mile from her home in 2013. www.davidbyrdestate.com She lives in Sidney Center, New York.