Edgar Jerins was born in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1958. He graduated from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1980 with a four-year certificate. That year, he was awarded an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant. Subsequent grants: The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Artists Books, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Grant, George Sugarman Foundation Grant (twice), and the E.D. Foundation Grant. In 2014 he received the New York Academy of Art’s Venture Fund Grant.
He has had solo exhibitions at the Latvian Foreign Art Museum, Riga, Latvia, Museum of Nebraska Art, Payne Gallery at Moravian Collage, and two New York City exhibitions at Tatistcheff Gallery. His drawings have been widely exhibited in catalogue supported shows across the US.

His drawing and essay are included in the recent survey of figurative art in the Rizzoli book “The Figure: Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture: Contemporary Perspectives.”
Reviews include The New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and American Arts Quarterly. A feature article “Uomimi in mezzo ai guair” by Lorena Cerbini appeared in Italy’s Arte Magazine. His public collections are:

Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
The Global Center for Latvian Art, Cesis Latvia, Arkansas Art Center, Museum of Nebraska Art, and Moravian College.
He is represented by ACA Galleries in New York City. Jerins is an Adjunct Faculty at the New York Academy of Art.