Jill Greenberg

Born in July of 1967 in Montreal, Canada, and grew up in a suburb of Detroit. Jill was based in NYC until 2000 and now resides in Los Angeles with her husband and 2 young children.

Since the age of 10, Greenberg has staged photographs and created characters using the mediums of drawing, painting, sculpture, film, and photography. Greenberg's notable success with gallery and museum shows, book, publishing, commercial and editorial photography displays her unique perspective with a clear voice, which is apparent through her distinctive lighting and personally executed postproduction. Greenberg is known worldwide for her uniquely human animal portraits. Her second monograph Bear Portraits is due out in the fall of '09 with Little, Brown and Company.

Her series, "End Times," combines beautiful, poignant imagery, impeccable executed, with both political and personal relevance. Greenberg's subject is taboo: children in pain. She utilizes the uncomfortable images to break through the pop mainstream and participate in a growing national dialogue of the real dangers facing this country and world. Greenberg's images are sharp, saturated, stunning, and quirky, her work is soaked with realism and imagination, which hits a national nerve.

For the series, "Monkey Portraits," Greenberg created a series of monkey portraits and asks us to consider our history in evolution. We look into her monkey's expressions and see ourselves in their peculiar physiognomy. She mischievously holds up a mirror where we confront an ancient and distorted reflection, a startling spectacle leaving us feeling disorientated, but exhilarated. By intentionally anthropomorphizing her monkeys, we can't help but identity with their gaze; we are minded of people and expressions that we have seen before.