New York based painter, Jayne Holsinger, is known for her painted series inspired by her Midwest roots including: "Women Drivers," "American Stills," "Mennonites," and "National Parks." Originally from Indiana, she grew up in a rural community near South Bend and moved to New York City in 1978 to study painting at the New York Studio School, where she attended for 3 years. She received her BFA from Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida, and holds an MFA from the Transart Institute in Linz, Austria.
The recipient of several grants, Holsinger’s work has received support from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (two grants), the New York Foundation for the Arts (two grants), the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, amongst others. In 2008 Holsinger was singled out for a Lily Auchincloss Foundation Fellowship for her painting series "Visual Offering" (portraits of Lancaster County Mennonites).
Internationally her work has been shown at the Shedhalle, Zurich, the Allied Museum, Berlin, and the Topaki Palace, Istanbul. In New York she has exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and in solo shows at Margaret Thatcher Projects in Chelsea. In 2010, her Women Drivers series opened at the Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, Florida in a one-person exhibition. Amongst many publications, her paintings have been reviewed and reproduced in the New York Times, Art Critical, Flash Art online (Milan), Harper’s Magazine, and Forbes. Her paintings have also appeared on the covers and in the pages of literary books as well as art and literary journals including: Tupelo Quarterly, Hanging Loose, Saint Anne’s Review, and Verdad.
A lover of nature, Holsinger has been an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont, and the Arnica Open Studio Society in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. In 2017 she painted 4 weeks at the Bilpin International Grounds for Creative Initiatives, an artist residency focused on environmental concerns located on the edge of Wollemi National Park in Australia.
Holsinger is an adjunct Assistant Professor at Borough of Manhattan Community College. She is married to the poet Hugh Seidman and lives in the West Village of Manhattan.