JERRY HIRSHBERG

Chronology:

   
Born in Cleveland, Ohio
           
Lives and works in Del Mar, California

 

Education and Related Experience:

Studied Liberal Arts and Engineering at Ohio State University

Bachelor of Arts in painting and design from the Cleveland Institute of Art

Received Mary C. Page Traveling Fellowship for study abroad upon graduation

Honorary Doctorate, Cleveland Institute of Art, 2004

Executive Designer, General Motors, 1964-1980

Founding Director and President, Nissan Design International, 1980-2000

San Diego's first Chairperson of Public Art

Board of Trustees, Cleveland Institute of Art, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art

Board of Advisors for the Graduate School for Pacific and International Studies at UCSD

Mayor's Growth Management Task Force for San Diego

Member Design Arts Panel, National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, DC

Member of select group of country's leading designers invited to Little Rock, Arkansas to consider the implications of Design for the American economy.

Chaired the national IDEA Awards program co-sponsored by Business Week and the Industrial Design Society of America

National director, Industrial Design Society of America

 

Exhibitions:
           
Jerry Hirshberg: Recent Paintings, Danese, New York, NY, 2009
Forces of Nature, Danese, New York, NY, 2009

Design X to Z: Jerry Hirshberg and Nissan Design America (20-Year retrospective), San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art in La Jolla, CA, 2001

 

Bibliography:

The Creative Priority. HarperCollins and Penguin/Viking, 1999 (named one of the 25 all-time greatest books on creativity
by the European Association of Creativity and Innovation).