Jeremy Ackman is from Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended Bowling Green State University in their BFA program after high school. Jeremy joined the Ohio National Guard for the free tuition incentives. During that time Jeremy was deployed to Kosovo, New Orleans, and Iraq. He got married and moved to Boston with his wife Rachel, to pursue her graduate course. Jeremy attended the University of Massachusetts Boston where he graduated with a bachelors of arts. With the motivation of some teachers he applied to MFA programs and is currently working towards his Masters of Fine Arts at Hampshire Institute of Art. He shown work in New York, Boston, Minneapolis, Black and White magazine, and The Griffin Museum of Photography.