Terri Hallman was born in 1962 and raised in a small town in Wisconsin. She attended the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where she earned a Bachelor of Art degree. Hallman’s dry pigment work is the result of an unusual, well - honed creative process that has evolved naturally over the years. For Hallman, the art is in the process itself, which she regards as the essence of her work.

Each completed work possesses a unique “history” according to Hallman, in which the layers represent the “way things were,” and the finished piece achieved throughout the “building-up process” defines the “way things are.” Symbolically, Hallman’s work reflects the temporality of life and the transformations inherent in the aging process.