Jane Gilmor is a nationally recognized artist affiliated with A.I.R. Gallery in New York and Olson Larsen Galleries in Des Moines. She has been a professor of art at Mount Mercy College since 1974 and is currently Chair of the Art Department. Most recently she was awarded a Senior Fulbright Fellowship in at the University of Evora in Portugal, a Banff International Centre Fellowship, an McKnight Interdisciplinary Artist's Fellowship and Diverse Visions and Iowa Arts Council Grants. She has also received NEA Visual Artist's Fellowships and residency fellowships in Ireland, London, and at the MacDowell Colony, Ragdale and VCCA in the US. Professor Gilmor earned an MFA and MA from the University of Iowa and attended The Art Institute of Chicago.

In the past two years she has exhibited her work in New York, Chicago, Lisbon, Portugal and regionally. Her work is included books such as in Lucy Lippard's OVERLAY: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory, and THE POWER OF FEMINIST ART; The American Movement of the 1970's, History and Impact, Broude and Gerrard, Abrams, 1994, Pioneer Feminists, B. Love, University of Illinois Press, 2006: Beautiful Necessity: The Art and Meaning of Women's Altars, Kay Turner, Thames and Hudson,'99. Her exhibitions have been reviewed in such journals as The New Art Examiner, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, and The Copenhagen Daily News.

I first decided to become an artist in sixth grade when everyone told me my drawing of Fred Flintstone was the best thing they had ever seen. To be practical I majored in biology my freshman year of college - but eventually my past caught up with me. After a major in Textile Design and some time living and working in Chicago and New York City I returned to school in Fine Arts and have been an active exhibiting artist ever since. It's a good thing I went to art school, though, because I recently found that drawing of Fred Flintstone. It's pretty bad! My recent installations and sculptures combine fabricated and handmade found objects, incised text on metal foil, and video to explore issues of identity, dislocation and the construction of memory. My focus is on those entanglements of images, objects and language through which we try to locate our own identity. Go to my other website for lots of images and discussion of my recent work. Click here.