Department of Art : Art Faculty

Jeffrey Mueller


MA SUNY Purchase


Adjunct Professor
Art History

Contact
muellerjp@wcsu.edu

Jeffrey Mueller is an adjunct professor of Art History at Western Connecticut State University. He received his BFA in Fine Art Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology, BA in Art History from SUNY Albany and a MA in Modern and Contemporary Art, Criticism and Theory from Purchase College.  Mr. Mueller has also taught at Purchase College and lectured throughout the state of Connecticut on a variety of art related topics.

In addition to teaching at Western, he is Gallery Director at Silvermine Arts Center in New Canaan, CT, where he has curated over 100 exhibitions.  At Silvermine, he oversees a roster of approximate 300 artists, whose work can be found in major corporate and private collections, as well as in the permanent collection of many important institutions, such as the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the National Gallery. In the over fifteen years that he has worked in museums and galleries, Mr. Mueller has worked with and shown work by Mary Frank, Brent Green, Yayoi Kusama, Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison, James Rosenquist, and many other notable figures.