Jerry Weiss (American, b.1959) studied drawing with Roberto Martinez in Miami, FL, and drawing and painting with Harvey Dinnerstein, Robert Beverly Hale, Ted Seth Jacobs, Mary Beth McKenzie, and Jack Faragasso at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design in New York City.

Weiss has had solo exhibitions at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, and galleries in New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Maine. His paintings are represented in numerous public, private, and corporate collections, including the New Britain Museum of American Art (CT); the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Northeastern University (Boston, MA); Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston, MA); Pfizer, Inc. (Groton, CT); the State Capitol Building (Hartford, CT); New London County Court House (CT); Debevoise & Plimpton (New York, NY); and the Harvard Club of New York City.

He was awarded a fellowship for painting from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and has won the Julius Hallgarten Prize and the Isaac Maynard Prize at the National Academy of Design annual exhibitions in New York City. Weiss teaches workshops and lectures in Florida, New York, Washington, Maine, New Mexico, and Colorado. He is listed in Who’s Who in American Art and Who’s Who in America. His artwork and teaching methods have been featured in American Artist Workshop and American Artist Drawing magazines, and he writes the continuing “Master Class” feature as a contributing editor to Artist’s Magazine. He is represented by The Cooley Gallery (Old Lyme, CT), Portraits Inc. (New York, NY), and Ingram Fine Art (Charleston, SC).