Eliza Evans’ work has been exhibited by NEW INC/New Museum at LaMama Gallaria, New York NY, the Bronx Museum, Missoula Art Museum, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville TN, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY, Alexey von Schlippe Gallery, University of Connecticut, Edward Hopper House Museum, Nyack, NY, and BRIC, Brooklyn, and has appeared in the New York Times, Art in America, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, and Dissent Magazine. A law review article on her work is forthcoming in the Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal. Residencies include the LMCC Art Center, the Art Law Program, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, UC Santa Barbara, and Bronx Museum AIM. She is currently a member of NEW INC, the New Museum’s cultural incubator. She holds an MFA in visual art from SUNY Purchase and a PhD in economic sociology from the University of Texas at Austin. Evans was born in a rustbelt steel town and raised in rural Appalachia. She splits her time between Brooklyn and Tennessee.
EXHIBITIONS
2023
Unsettling Matter, Gaining Ground, Carnegie Museum of Art (forthcoming), Pittsburgh PA
Emergency Archive, NEW INC, New Museum at LaMama Galleria, New York NY
A River Runs Through Us, PEG Center for Art and Activism, (forthcoming) Newburyport MA
Climate Arts Festival, Queens Botanical Garden, Queens NY
Creative Climate Awards, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, New York NY
Metabolism of Cities, LMCC, Governors Island, New York NY
2022
Bronx Calling, Bronx Museum, Bronx NY (forthcoming)
2021
Art on the Edge: from Extraction to Restoration and Regeneration, Peninsula Museum of Art, San Bruno CA
All the Way to Hell Mineral Rights Exchange, Narrowsburgh NY (public art installation)
Sculptors Guild, Westbeth Gallery, NYC
The Space of Hope, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula MT
Sculpture Now, The Mount, Lenox MA
Owning Earth, Unison Arts Center, New Paltz NY (curated by Tal Beery)
Collective Health, Collar Works, Troy NY (curated by Valery Jung Estabrook and Rachel Frank)
Time Machine, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville TN (curated by Michael Dickins)
2020
Typos+Spills+Broken Glass, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn NY
eco-feminism(s), Thomas Erben Gallery, New York NY, curated by Monika Fabijanska
Open Air, Alexey von Schlippe Gallery, University of Connecticut, Avery Point CT
Desire Lines, Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn NY (virtual, curated by Melissa Joseph)
2019
Time Machine, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua NY (interactive public art installation)
Composed to Decompose, Unison Sculpture Garden, New Paltz NY, curated by Linda Weintraub
Emerging Artists Exhibition, Fowler-Kellogg Art Center, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua NY
Message in a Bo(a)ttle, Edward Hopper House Museum, Nyack NY
The Compact, Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer MN (solo public art installation)
Second Nature, DeChiara Projects, Kingston NY
2018
Watch It Burn, Trestle Art Gallery, Brooklyn NY
the SITE, Chashama Sculpture Field, ChaNorth Residency, Pine Plains, NY
On Site, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn NY.
In the Air, Kleinert James Center for the Arts, Woodstock NY.
2017
Land and Time, Momenta Art at Atlas Studios, Newburgh NY.
Truth, BRIC, Brooklyn NY.
Transpire, State University of New York, Purchase NY (solo public art installation).
Animation and the Book Arts, Center for Book Arts, New York NY.
Artefactual, Equity Gallery, New York NY.
Artefactual, Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery, Purchase College, Purchase, NY.
2016
Stolen/Missing/Disappeared, Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery, Purchase College, Purchase, NY.
Motion Pictures, Jacob Burns Art and Film Series, Pleasantville NY.
Animation+Print, White Box Gallery, University of Oregon, Portland OR.
New Prints 2016/Winter, International Print Center New York, New York NY.
2015
Medium Rare, Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery, Purchase College, Purchase, NY.
Printfest, International Print Center New York, New York NY.
Force of Nature, Karl Drerup Art Gallery, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH.
What if..., El Zaguan, Santa Fe NM.
The Contemporary Print, PrintAustin, Austin TX.
Wheelhouse Gallery, Santa Fe NM.
2014
Ryder Studio Exhibit, Argos Gallery, Santa Fe NM.
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2021
Puffin Foundation Fine Arts Grant
NEW INC member, New Museum, NYC
Center for Artistic Activism SuperCorsa
Art & Law Program, NYC
2020
Artists for Artists Masterclass
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
2019
Bronx Museum AIM Fellowship, Bronx NY
Chautauqua Visual Arts Residency, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua NY
Open Studio Fellowship, Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer MN
2018
Residency 108, Germantown NY
Brooklyn Art Space, Brooklyn NY
2017
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock NY
President’s Award for Public Art on Campus, SUNY PurchasePresident’s Award for Student Public Art on Campus, SUNY Purchase
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021
Boury, Louis. “Who Owns the Earth?,” Hyperallergic, Sept. 8, 2021
Atkin, Emily. “How to Move beyond Recycling,” Heated, Aug. 20, 2021.
McCanne, Michael. “The Art of Obstruction.” Dissent, Summer 2021.
McQuaid, Cate. “Open field for the imagination.” Boston Globe, July 4, 2021.
Weinstein, Tresca. “Sculpture exhibits bring texture, color to The Mount.” Times Union (Albany), June 9, 2021.
2020
Yaniv, Etty.“All the Way to Hell.”Art Spiel: in dialogue with Eliza Evans.” Art Spiel, Nov. 5 2020.
Wickouski, Sheila. “ecofeminism(s) Exhibition Connects Feminism, Art and Eco-Consciousness.” Ms. Sept. 1, 2020
Migan, Darla. “Brown’s a Color, Black is Not.” Brooklyn Rail, Jul-Aug 2020.
Weintraub, Linda. “ecofeminism(s) Thomas Erben Gallery / New York.” Flash Art, Aug. 5, 2020.
Bury, Louis. “What Ecofeminist Artists Learned from Indigenous Cultures.” Art in America, July 20, 2020.
Steinhauer, Jillian. “Reconnecting to a Reopening World.” New York Times, July 17, 2020, Section C, Page 8.
Packard, Cassie. “Ecofeminist Art Takes Root.” Hyperallergic, July 15, 2020.
Mdivani, Nina. “Confronting History through Herstory.” Art Spiel, July 9, 2020.
“Algorithmic.” SciArt Magazine, June 2020.
2019
Gupta, Vishakha. “Artist Eliza Evans Creates Experiential Art to Provoke Climate Change Discussion.” The Chautauquan Daily, 10 August 2019: Print
Gupta, Vishakha. “Hot in the Future: A Climate Change Experience.” The Chautauquan Daily,10 August 2019: video. http://chqdaily.com/2019/08/artist-eliza-evans-creates-experiential-art-to-provoke-climate-change-discussion/
2016
The Hand, Issue no. 13
The Hand, Issue no. 12
Hinchas de Poesia, April, no. 18
2015
The Hand, issue no. 10
New Editions, Art in Print, July-August, vol. 5, no. 2
EDUCATION
2017 SUNY Purchase, Purchase NY, MFA