very early adopter of digital imaging. been using photoshop since 1.0 . learned at SVA after graduation from risd
her background in drawing and painting is an asset to the retouching
family tradition of early adopters of technology. opthalmologist father one of the first to use lasers in eye surgery
16 pieces were acquired for the West collection in 2006
asked to speak at annual national geographic conference on photography -chosen to speak alongside james nachtwey, ed burtynsky, duane michals
spoke at AIGA make.think. in 2010 keynote main stage speaker
spoke at semi-permanent-the australian art and design conference- in sydney in 2010
been drawing and photographing horses since a young child, next monograph will be photographs of horses published by rizzoli.
been concerned with feminist cultural criticism since undergraduate studies
thesis " the female object" with music by chris and cosey. formerly of throbbing gristle. was a multi track recording with slide projections and quadrisected print large format c-print installation
early digital art of scanned gay pornography magazine "honcho" bought used on 14th street in nyc. selected a hand and erect penis and deified it in"pork sword" was exhibited at max fish on orchard street in NYC in 1991
the follow up was "pork sword 2000" which was a staged photograph, of a friend's penis, was exhibited at American Fine Art in 1999 in their Christmas Group show.
calendar of monkey portraits with abrams 2011, 2012. also for germany HEYE. 2011, 2012 in a huge poster size.
all of the animals photographed are live and quite straight photographs
jill shoots many magazine covers since her work is iconic and attention grabbing and sells issues due to its graphic style and emotional resonance.
interned at pace macgill gallery after graduation and started her photography career. other scanned digital work used to enter Whitney Program. body parts. she had her
bulfinch monkey portraits has sold over 60,000 copies
fine art work collected by tom ford, ashton kutcher and demi moore, chris weitz, paul weitz, drew carey, nicole kidman, daniel craig, phillip pulman
kelley walker used jill greenberg's copyrighted image of regina hall on the cover of KING magazine, smeared aquafresh toothpaste on it and sold it to charles saatchi, without jill's permission.
jill greenberg has been credited with inventing a style of portrait photography with high key rim lighting and a halo behind the head with shiny retouching to the subject's skin.