Oliver Jeffers

Oliver Jeffers is a world renowned artist, storyteller, and truly creative, innovative thinker, whose work has been celebrated by children and adults alike. His artwork has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world, including the Brooklyn Museum and High Line Park in New York, the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, the National Portrait Gallery in London, and the Palais Auersperg in Vienna. He was the Art Director for U2’s “Songs of Innocent and Experience” tour and has collaborated with the band on their music videos. As a freelance artist, Jeffers has created illustrations for The New York Times, The Telegraph, Newsweek, and Oprah Magazine. His exhibitions Dipped Paintings and Life at Sea can be seen now at Praise Shadows Art Gallery and Brooklyn Museum respectively.

Oliver Jeffers highly acclaimed debut into the world of picture books with How to Catch a Star, was followed by the publication of the 2014 Children’s Choice Book Award’s Book of the Year, The Day the Crayons Quit, which also received the E.B. White Read-Aloud Award. One year later, Lost and Found, a poignant, funny, and heartwarming story about friendship, won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Gold Award and was the Blue Peter Book of the Year. It was later made into a BAFTA-winning animated short film. His eighteenth book published in 2017, Here We Are, was a New York Times bestseller that was named NPR Best Book of 2017, a Boston Globe Best Book of 2017, and a Times Magazine Best Book of the Year. Here We Are, which is an insightfully sweet and humorous user’s guide to life on Earth, has been adapted into a short-animated film narrated by Meryl Streep on Apple TV+. What We’ll Build, his exquisite picture book, is gorgeously told father-daughter story and companion to the #1 New York Times bestseller Here We Are. His newest picture book, I’m Very Busy, is out now.

A personable and entertaining speaker, Oliver Jeffers talks about how humor and curiosity drive his creativity, his writing and illustrating process, and his career both as an artist and an author. In his recent TED talk, he offers observations on the “beautiful, fragile drama of human civilization” paired with his original illustrations and animations.

Jeffers grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He went to Hazelwood College and graduated from the University of Ulster. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York with his family.

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