“He is remarkable. One of the things I love about Jeff’s work is the absolute primacy of it. You can be standing seven blocks away and pick out a Jeff Zimmermann like a fingerprint. He is only like himself, and that’s the highest compliment I can pay an artist. He’s doesn’t play the art world game. He’s on his own mission, his own path.”
-Tony Fitzpatrick”
Shot Orange Marilyn
Collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago. 669 N Michigan Ave., Chicago. 2019.
Chicago Sun Times feature on collaboration with The Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago muralist Jeff Zimmermann’s take on Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe is almost done.
PBS Chicago Tonight feature on collaboration with artist Kerry James Marshall
New York Times feature on A Note for Hope in Memphis, TN
Fun interview about my history and process from Create! magazine.
NBC The Today Show feature on A Note for Hope in Memphis, TN.
Great piece from The Today Show from back in the early 2000s.
NBC feature on Beacon, Chicago
THREADLESS article on The Summer of Likes and Chi Style hot dogs
PBS Kids feature: The Artist in Your Backyard
The Chicago Reader feature
Urbs en Horto
PBS Chicago Tonight feature on the installation at Lane Tech High School.
"You Know What You Should Do", Oak Street Beach, Chicago
“Break Away” installation at Columbia College Chicago’s new student center
Watch a cool behind the scenes montage of a little piece I created for the new Whole Foods Market in Chicago (Lakeview). Great work by 119 Productions!
PBS ArtBeat feature from 2001. We walkthrough creating a mural from the very start.
Jeff Zimmerman paints his signature Heart Knot on the Hotel El Ganzo walls.
With just 69 guest rooms and a keen eye toward style and aesthetics, Hotel El Ganzo is a refuge and a mind-opening departure from cookie-cutter hotels. Custom-created furnishings and original décor elements help to set the visual tone, against the natural backdrop of the beautiful Sea of Cortez.
