Photography

H. Jennings Sheffield

Professor of Art

H. Jennings Sheffield was born in Richmond, Virginia. She is a contemporary artist working in lens-based media, video, and sound. Sheffield received her BFA in photography and digital media from the Atlanta College of Art and her MFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio in photography and new media. Her lens-based work explores memory, identity, and the passage of time. Drawing from personal narratives and collective experiences, her practice merges photography, new media, and alternative processes to visualize the fragmentation and persistence of memory, as well as the intimate relationships and diverse roles individuals play over a lifetime.

In parallel with her core conceptual research, Sheffield also develops landscape-driven projects that respond to climate change. These works—most notably her series Going Away from Here—document disappearing environments through direct engagement with the land, mirroring the temporal shifts central to her broader practice.

Sheffield is a Professor of Art at Baylor University and serves on the board of Texas Photographic Society. Her work has been widely exhibited internationally and nationally and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Capital One, several private collections, as well as in the special collections at William & Mary, University of Virginia, Baylor University, University of North Texas, and Virginia Commonwealth University.