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Solo Exhibitions
2026 Strips, Stripes, Pieces, Parts, Investor Contemporary, Austin, TX (September 2026)
2025-26 Curious Geometries, D31 MIA Galleries, Miami International Airport, Miami, FL
2025 Everything Mixing Always, Baker–Hall Gallery, Miami, FL
2025 Lots of Little Pieces (aka My Favorite Color is Glitter), Miami-Dade College Kendall Gallery, Miami, FL
2024-25 Non-Linear Path, Liaigre, Miami, FL
2024 Vulnerability & Resilience, The Studios of Key West Sanger Gallery, Key West, FL
2023 Free Form Connections, Dunedin Fine Arts Center, Dunedin, FL
2023 Pieces of the Landscape, Oolite Arts, Mt Sinai Skolnick Surgical Tower, Miami Beach, FL
2021 Americana Quilts: Reinterpretation of Tradition, Laundromat Art Space, Miami, FL
2020 Treble Flow, Oolite Arts Walgreens Window, Miami Beach, FL
2019 Solo Projects Presents: Regina Jestrow, VAG Studios, Miami, FL
2016 Forms of the Everglades, Miami-Dade College Library, Homestead, FL
2014 Drawings, 6th Street Container Alternative Art Space, Miami, FL
Select Group Exhibitions
2026
Nothing but Net, PFA Gallery, Kensington, MD (September 2026)
Slow Light, Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts, Cedarburg, WI
Dallas Art Fair, Baker–Hall Gallery, Dallas, TX
Piecework Legacies, Main Library, Miami, FL
2025-26
Natives and Nomads, Roque, Miami Beach, FL
Marmoris, The Arts Warehouse, Delray, FL
2025
Cats: The Exhibition, BridgeRed Studios/Project Space, North Miami, FL
Agency: Artist and Craftsperson, Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL
Spirits in The Material World, TW Fine Art, West Palm Beach, FL
The Geometry of Fiber, Harvest Project at Pinecrest Gardens, Miami, FL
Both Sides Now, Onna House, Palm Beach, FL
mel bokner (notes on value), [NAME] Publications, Miami, FL
Blue is the Warmest Color, Onna House, Palm Beach, FL
2024-25
A Space Between Worlds, Wassaic Projects, Amenia, NY
Stratified Gestures, Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL
2024
Crafting Modernism: Mid-Century Brazilian Furniture, L’Space Gallery, New York, NY
Sense of Belonging - Public Art in the City, Harvest Project at Pinecrest Gardens, Miami, FL
2023-24
Quilty Pleasures, Elephant Gallery, Nashville, TN
South Florida Cultural Consortium, Hollywood Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, FL
2023
Fibration, L’Space Gallery, New York, NY
Artifacts of Experience, TSA_GVL, Greenville, SC
It Was Always About You…, Oolite Arts, Miami Beach, FL
Hand over Hand: Textiles Today, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
New Visions: Cross-Cultural Connections, Dominican College of Plastic Artists, Santo Domingo, D.R.
A Taste of Things to Come, Red 225 Gallery, Nashville, TN
Cut, Tear, Rupture and Overlay, Edge Zones Gallery, Miami, FL
2022-23
The BluPrnt Show, BridgeRed Studios/Project Space, North Miami, FL
A-Piece-A-Part, Art Space, Raleigh, NC
The Miami Creative Movement, The Center for Visual Communication, Miami, FL
2022
Close to Home, Parachute Gallery, Tampa, FL
In the Company of Women: At Large, LnS Gallery, Miami, FL
Uncommon Prints x Common Matrices, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2021
MIA Gallery Recent Acquisitions, MIA Galleries, Miami International Airport, Miami, FL
Materialize, BridgeRed Studios/Project Space, North Miami, FL
64 Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse - The Quilt, CAMP Gallery, Miami, FL
Warp & Weft, The Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery & Exhibit Hall, Pembroke Pines, FL
South Florida Women Artists At Large, Doral Contemporary Art Museum, Miami, FL
2020-21
Home Sweet Home, Harvest Project at Pinecrest Gardens, Miami, FL
2020
Spring Contemporary, The Deering Estate, Miami, FL
Forty Women Pulling at The Threads of Social Discourse, CAMP Gallery, Miami, FL
Artists Draw Their Studios, Hollywood Arts & Culture Center, Hollywood, FL
2017
RAW, Young Artist Initiative, Miami, FL
More Women Painting, Design Sublime, Miami, FL
The Texture of Light, Da Fonseca Contemporanea, Wilton Manors, FL
2016
Fiberish, FIU - Miami Beach Urban Studios, Miami, FL
Pop Up Shop, Meeting House, Miami, FL
2015
+1, Deering Estate Festival of the Arts, Miami, FL
Wild Billboard Benefit-AIRIE, Harvest Project at Pinecrest Gardens, Miami, FL
2014
Thirty Years on the Road, ArtCenter/South Florida, Miami Beach, FL
Sweat II, Museum of Art & Design, Miami-Dade College, Miami, FL
63rd Annual All Florida Juried Competition & Exhibition, Boca Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
Mending: New Uses for Old Traditions, University of N. Carolina, Wilmington, NC
2013-14
Experiments in Geometry, Project 924 Space, ArtCenter/South Florida, Miami Beach, FL
2013
A Close Read, Turn-Based Press, Miami, FL
Excess Versus Scarcity, Little Haiti Cultural Center, Miami, FL
Art Fallout: Thinking on Paper, Girl Club Collection, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Fiber Optics, 1310 Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Forget Me Not, The Deering Estate at Cutler, Miami, FL
Understory, The Studios of Key West Public Sculpture Garden, Key West, FL
2012
Organica, Alliance for the Arts, Fort Myers, FL
Invasive Species, The Studios of Key West Public Garden, Key West, FL
As the Ferris Wheel Turns, Project 924, ArtCenter/South Florida, Miami Beach, FL
Sustainable, Coral Gables Museum, Coral Gables, FL
Natural Curiosities, Miami International Airport Gallery, Miami, FL
3D Sculpture Parking, Swampspace Gallery, Miami, FL
Mapping, ArtCenter/South Florida, Miami Beach, FL
Have Your Cake and Eat it too, C. Emerson Fine Art, St. Petersburg, FL
2011
Impressed, Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL
Surface, The Deering Estate at Cutler, Miami, FL
Center of Attention, ArtCenter/South Florida, Miami Beach, FL
INstruct, The Studios of Key West, Key West, FL
We Got Dumped, Studio 18, Pembroke Pines, FL
Common Threads, Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL
The Conversation Starts Here, The Graham Center Art Gallery, Miami, FL
2010
Container Art, 6th Street Container, Miami, FL
The Sewing Circle, Roxcy O'Neal Bolton Women's History Gallery, Miami, FL
2009
Sensory Overload, Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL
2008
Sharing the Press: Miami, Edge Zones Gallery, Miami, FL
Special Projects
2026 Object Subject, The Shop at The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
2025 Art Week Pop-Up, The Shop at The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
2019 Invasive Species, IKT Curatorial Conference, Riviera South Beach, Miami, FL
Invasive Species, Doral Contemporary Museum, Doral Glades Park, Miami, FL
Major Awards & Fellowships
2026 Penland School of Craft, Winter Residency Fellowship, Penland, NC
2024Vermont Studio Center Full Fellowship, Johnson, VT
2023 South Florida Cultural Consortium, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, Miami, FL
2021 The Ellies Creator Award, Oolite Arts, Miami, FL
Grants
2026
Artist Access Grant, Miami-Dade County and FUNDarte
Miami-Dade Individual Artists (MIA) Grant (2025-2026), Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs
2025
Artist Access Grant, Miami-Dade County and FUNDarte
Miami-Dade Individual Artists (MIA) Grant (2024-2025), Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs
2024
Artist Access Grant, Miami-Dade County and FUNDarte
Miami-Dade Individual Artists (MIA) Grant (2023-2024), Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs
2023
Miami-Dade Individual Artists (MIA) Grant (2022-2023), Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs
Artist Access Grant, Miami-Dade County and FUNDarte
2022
CERF+ “Get Ready” Grant, emergency preparedness, digital archive funding
Special Projects Grant, Fiber Art Now, Jentel Art Residency Support
Miami Individual Artists (MIA) Stipend, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs
Artist Access Grant, Miami-Dade County and FUNDarte
2021
Artist Access Grant, Miami-Dade County and FUNdarte
2020
Miami-Dade Artists Support! (MÁS!) Grant, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs
Betancourt-Latorre Foundation Visual Artist Relief Fund Covid-19, Miami, FL
Oolite Arts Relief Fund for COVID-19, Miami, FL
Recognitions
2025 The Hopper Prize, Finalist Artist, Journal Feature
2023 Excellence in Quilts III, Fiber Art Now, Third Prize
2014 Mastermind Award by Miami New Times, Finalist
Residencies
2026 Headlands Center for The Arts, Sausalito, CA (August)
2026 Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
2026 Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC
2025 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2-25 Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE
2024 Sam and Adele Golden Foundation Residency Program, New Berlin, NY
2022 Jentel Foundation Artist Residency, Banner, WY
2016 Fountainhead Studios Resident, Miami, FL
2015 Deering Estate, Artist in Residence, Cutler Bay, FL
2014 National Park Service Residency (AIRIE), Everglades National Park, FL
2012 The Studios at Key West, Artist in Residence, Key West, FL
2011-13 Oolite Arts (ArtCenter/South Florida), Studio Resident Artist, Miami Beach, FL
2009-11 Bakehouse Art Complex, Studio Resident Artist, Miami, FL
Collections / Commissions
Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, FL
Domus Flats Brickell Park, Commissioned Work, Miami, FL
Google Store, Aventura Mall, Commissioned Work, Miami, FL
International Flight Center, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, Miami, FL
Miami International Airport, MIA Galleries, Miami, FL
NYU Langone Health, West Palm Beach, FL
Oolite Arts, Shares 2024, Commissioned Work, Miami Beach, FL
Stephen P. Clark Government Center, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, Miami, FL
The Shelborne by Proper Hotels, Commissioned Work, Miami Beach, FL
Press
Andrea G. Rollin, “Patterns With Purpose, Regina Durante Jestrow Blends Quilt-Making With Women’s Rights,” The Boca Raton Observer, March 12, 2026
Jonathan Stevenson, “A Golden year: Art amid iniquity,” Two Coats of Paint, August 19, 2025
Erin Parish, “ART: Regina Jestrow’s ‘Lots of Little Pieces’ At MDC Kendall Deeply Compelling,” Art Burst Miami, January 24, 2025
Irene Sperber, “The Spirit of Three Miami Galleries,” MiamiArtZine.com, January 15, 2025
Florencia Franceschetti, “Regina Jestrow’s quilted narratives shine at MDC Kendall campus art gallery,” too much love magazine, January 15, 2025
Douglas Markowitz, “The Best Art Shows to See in Miami, January 2025, ” Miami New Times, January 14, 2025
Conversation With An Artist: Regina Durante Jestrow, conversationswithartists.com, Sept. 2024
Danielle Williams, “Tackling Geometry with Regina Durante Jestrow,” Art Quilting Studio Magazine, Spring 2024
Joseph Sgambati III, “Take 5: A Designer Vessel, Experimental Art, Color Theory + More,” Design-Milk.com, Nov. 2023
Adrian Madlener, “Behind ‘Fibration,”’ New York Textile Month’s Main Exhibition,” Interior Design Magazine, Sept. 2023
Tony Wong Palms, “Weaving the World Into Being,” Creative Pinellas, July 20, 2023
Monique McIntosh, “Common Thread, A textile artist weaves a sense of time and place into her prismatic quilts,” Luxe Interiors + Design Miami, July/August 2023
Curated Quilts, Linear 2.0, Issue 24, Summer 2023
Elisa Turner, “Art Lessons From a Plague Year in Miami,” The Jitney, December 12, 2021
Adriana Herrera, “FAMA textile artists commemorate the right to vote for women,” El Nuevo Herald, December 2, 2020
Valerie Nahmad, “Sticks & Stones” Knight Foundation Article, December 10, 2014
Daniel Dugas, “Miami Report”, daniel.basicbruegel.com, December 5, 2014
Kat Bein, “Finalist: Regina Jestrow Turns Traditional Craft into 'High Art’,” Miami New Times, February 24, 2014
Anne Tschida, “Follow These Patterns,” Knight Arts Community Blog, January 8, 2014
Adam Sricu, “Art walks in Miami satisfy the post-Art Basel need to engage with artists,” Miami Herald, January 7, 2014
Teaching & Workshops
2024-26 Instructor, VAWAA, Art Quilting and Hand-Dyeing with Regina, Miami, FL
2025 Instructor, The Things Lab, Cat Stuffy Sewing Workshops, Miami, FL
Instructor, Fiber Art Association Miami, Ice Dyeing with Reactive Dyes Workshop, Coral Gables, FL
2024Instructor, The Things Lab, Puff Pillow Sewing Workshops, Miami, FL
Instructor, Jestrow Arts LLC, Shibori and Reactive Ice-Dyeing Workshops, Miami, FL
2021 Instructor, The CAMP Gallery, Stella’s Quilting Circle Workshop, North Miami Beach, FL
2017 Instructor, Miami-Dade County Public Schools Professional Development, Quilting Workshop, Miami, FL
Lectures & Public Talks
2026 Panelist, University of Wisconsin, Nancy M. Bruce Center for Design and Material Culture, Madison, WI
2025 Guest Lecturer, Miami-Dade College Kendall Campus Art Department, Soft Sculpture, Miami, FL
2024 Guest Lecturer, Florida International University, Fiber Art Class - Reactive Dyes, Miami, FL
2023 Guest Lecturer, South Florida Quilt Modern Guild, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Guest Lecturer, Nova Southeastern University, Fiber Art Class, Davie, FL
Education
2023 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Natural Dyeing Workshop, Deer Isle, Maine
1996-99 Fashion Institute of Technology, Photography classes, New York, NY