Jeff Ostergren makes paintings, sculptures, videos, drawings, and installations about the intertwined histories of pharmaceuticals and color. His pointillist, color-saturated works, infused with actual pharmaceuticals and chemicals, utilize imagery from art history and advertising to explore the ecstasy and toxicity of our present moment.

Originally trained as an anthropologist, Jeff Ostergren has been a practicing artist for two decades. Recent shows include the solo exhibitions "Saturation Points" at Sacred Heart University in Fairfi eld, CT, and "High Society" at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT. He has also participated in multiple group exhibitions throughout Connecticut, New York, Los Angeles, and Vienna. He will have a solo exhibition at Mercy Gallery at the Loomis Chaff ee School in Windsor, CT in 2026.

Ostergren is a recipient of a 2024 Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant from the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, where he exhibited work alongside other recipients in Spring 2025. He also received an Artist Grant from the Puffi n Foundation in 2024. In 2023, Ostergren was awarded an Artist Fellowship Grant from the Connecticut Offi ce of the Arts, and The Bitsie Clark Fund for Artists Grant, an annual project based-grant in New Haven.

Ostergren received his MFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA in 2006, following upon receiving a BA in a double major of anthropology and gender studies at Rice University in Houston, TX in 1998. He lives and works in New Haven, CT.