Education
2009 Masters of Visual Arts, Art Institute of Boston
2004 BFA Majoring in Fine Arts, Art Institute of Boston
Exhibitions
2023 Cultivating Culture, Artists for Humanity, Boston, MA
2019 Schools of Thought, New Arts Center, Newton, MA
2019 Museum of Fine Arts Opus Art Show, Fenway Community Center, Boston, MA
2018 Painted Faces, MBACC, Dedham, MA
2018 Jeffrey Ellse, Dedham Square Coffeehouse, Dedham, MA
2018 The Creative Process, New Arts Center, Newton, MA
2018 Hive 5, MBACC, Dedham, MA
2017 Opus 6, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
2017 Opus 8, Cambridge College, Cambridge, MA
2017 Fresno Exchange, Centro Cultural De Cali, Santiago de Cali, Colombia
2016 Opus 8, Boston Arts Academy, Boston, MA
2015 Jeffrey Ellse and Jim Banks, Dome Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2015 Breaking Ground, Lesley University College of Art & Design, Cambridge, MA
2014 George Nick: Paintings and Legacy, St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA
2013 Fig #3, That Then Disappear in the Building of It, Sasaka, Watertown, MA
2013 Opus 18, Cambridge College, Cambridge, MA
2013 Objectified, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
2012 Winter Salad, LOT F Gallery, Boston, MA
2012 Galvanized Truth: A Tribute to George Nick, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
2012 Swarm Intelligence, Marron Gallery, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
2012 Swarm Intelligence, Amherst Gallery, NHIA, Manchester, NH
2011 Chain Letter, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
2011 Still Life: Variations on a Theme, AVA Art Center, Lebanon, NH
2011 Colabratory, Marron Gallery, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
2011 MFAconnects@postAIB.edu, Fourth Wall Projects, Boston, MA
2010 Salad, Lot F Gallery, Boston, MA
2010 Drawn To It: The Art of Drawing, Amherst Gallery, NHIA, Manchester, NH
2009 Collective Expressions, Wales Street Studios, Abington, MA
2009 6th Annual Juried Summer Exhibition, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, Medford, MA
2009 MFA Graduation Show, Gallery at University Hall, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
2008 Birds, Mass Audubon Society Habitat Sanctuary, Belmont, MA
2006 3rd Annual Juried Summer Exhibition, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, Medford, MA
2006 Birds, Mass Audubon Society, Broadmoor Sanctuary, South Natick, MA
2018 Boston Voyager, "The Boston Arts & Culture Weekly Review", May 4.
2017 Meredith Goldstein, "A Cambridge gallery is showing artwork by guards who work at the Museum of Fine Arts," The Boston Globe, December 22.
2013 Draftery, Fig #3, That Then Disappear in the Building of It.
2012 Edgar Allen Beem, "A Tribute to George Nick in Duxbury" Yankee Magazine Blog
2010 Linda Chestney, “Drawn To It: The Art of Drawing”, Artscope, March/April. p.45
2009 Greg Cook, “Breakthroughs”, The Boston Phoenix, July 8.
2006 Cate McQuaid. “At This Year’s Tufts Show, Less Is More,” The Boston Globe, July 6, Section C, p. 6.
2006 June Wulff. “Go Ahead: A Month of Events,” The Boston Globe, June 11, Section N, p. 8.
2006 Anna Faktorovich. “Profile: Jeffrey Ellse,” Bigredshiny.com, June 18.
Honors and Awards
2026 Recipient of the CJP Arts & Culture Community Impact Grant
2020 Artist in Residence, MBACC, Dedham, MA
2008 Award Recipient, Museum of Fine Arts Boston Staff Show
2004 Graduated with Honors
Guest Artist & Lecturing
2017 Guest Artist & Lecturer for Making Modern Exhibit, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2016 Guest Critic for Senior Studio, Lesley Unversity College of Art & Design, Cambridge, MA
Academic Positions
2016-2021 Studio Art Instructor, New Arts Center, Newton, MA
2011-2020 Studio Art Instructor, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2008-2017 Adjunct Faculty, Lesley University College of Art & Design, Cambridge, MA
2011-2013 Adjunct Faculty, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH
2010 Mentor for MFA Thesis Program, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA