about
H. Jennings Sheffield was born in Richmond, Virginia. She is a contemporary artist working in lens-based media, video, and sound. Sheffield received her BFA in photography and digital media from the Atlanta College of Art and her MFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio in photography and new media. Her work is inspired by memory, moment, and time and often utilizes familial imagery to convey both the intimacy and the diverse roles and relationships individuals play within a family unit. Periodically, Sheffield takes on landscape-driven projects that begin with just her responding to the landscape. She is interested in landscapes that tend to be fleeting. Similar to her core research, Sheffield approaches landscapes by looking for and observing changes over time.
Sheffield is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Baylor University. Sheffield's work has been widely exhibited internationally and nationally and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Art Houston and the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Capital One, as well as in the special collections at William and Mary, University of Virginia, Baylor University, University of North Texas, and Virginia Commonwealth University.
