Jeffrey Carr is an artist and educator with a long career teaching at numerous art schools and universities. He was the Dean of the School of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA. from 2003 to 2015, and was the Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

He has been the subject of one-person exhibitions in New York, New Haven, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Indianapolis, St.Louis, San Diego, and Montecastello, Italy, and has been a visiting speaker or panel participant at over a dozen art schools and universities. He has published a number of interviews and articles on contemporary artists.

Since his retirement to San Diego, he has returned to an early love of painting the landscapes of Southern California and to smaller-scale figure painting. Originally from La Jolla, California, he graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz, attended the New York Studio School, and received his M.F.A. in painting from the Yale University School of Art.