Jill Slaymaker was born in Youngstown, Ohio in 1955, and grew up in Indiana and New Mexico. She received a bachelor's degree from Indiana University, and a master's degree in painting from Texas A & M. Slaymaker moved to Manhattan in 1982 and lives and works in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood there. Exhibitions of her artwork include the Tate Modern, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Dabawenyo Museum, Davao, the Philippines; Davis Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona; Nabi Museum of the Arts, Teaneck, New Jersey, and Port Authority windows, Manhattan. A survey of her work was shown at Yellow Fine Arts, New York, last year. Slaymaker’s retrospective at the Michael Murphy Gallery in Tampa opens next month. Collections include The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Library of the University of California, Santa Barbara, Davis Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, and Caroline Kennedy’s ambassador residence in Tokyo, Japan. Ms. Slaymaker has given talks recently in Bosnia-Herzogovinia, Grand Bahamas, New Zealand, and Norway. She’ll be speaking about her work, and contemporary art in general, at Pretoria University in South Africa this month. Jill is married to the composer Ned Paul Ginsburg, and they have a son, Alexei.