Jeanine Hill-Soldner

Born in Quantico, Virginia and raised in a military family, Jeanine Hill-Soldner was enthusiastic about art from an early age. She won her first art award at age twelve and began her painting journey at age 15 in an artist’s studio. She has consistently been an art creator with a passion that continues today with her dynamic, representational paintings, and professional career spanned more than 35 years. She is an award winning nationally recognized Artist with a BA in Art from the University of Florida and MA in Art from University of Illinois. Her work is shown in museums and galleries regionally and nationally and notably in more than two hundred group and solo exhibits. Her work can be found in public and private collections in the US and Europe. She is founder of the seminal “Portraits of American Veterans Project” and “Memories of an Era” that were featured in 2017 at Chicago’s National Veterans Art Museum and in 2024 at Water Street Studios in Batavia, Illinois in a show titled “Portraits and Memories: Legacies of Service.”

 

PBS featured her artist profile while her artwork and her story can be found in numerous publications. In addition to her work with and about veterans Jeanine is constantly creating representational paintings in oil on canvas. Her professional membership includes the Chicago Women’s Caucus for Art, Chicago Society of Artists, and Chicago Association of Visual Artists and the Water Street Studios Artist Collective in Batavia, Illinois.

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