Eliza Evans experiments with data, archives, and bureaucracy to identify and exploit disconnections and contradictions in social, economic, and ecological systems. With ruthless study, analysis, and wit, Evan locates the points where the logic of these systems is vulnerable to pressure and collapse.

Her work has been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries around the country, including the Carnegie Museum of Art, Lamama Galleria/New Museum, The Bronx Museum, Thomas Erben Gallery, Alexey von Schlippe Gallery, Chautauqua Institution, Edward Hopper House Museum, and BRIC. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Art in America, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, and Dissent Magazine. Artist residencies include the LMCC Art Center, the Art Law Program, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, UC Santa Barbara, the Center for Art Activism, and Bronx Museum AIM program. She is currently a member of NEW INC, the New Museum’s cultural incubator. Evans holds an MFA in visual arts from SUNY Purchase and a Ph.D. in economic sociology from the University of Texas at Austin.

EXHIBITIONS

2024

• The Curb Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN

• Back and Forth, Between Names, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh NY

2023

• Unsettling Matter, Gaining Ground, Carnegie Museum of Art, 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.

selected Presentations, AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2024

• Creative Summit, States of Emergence: Land After Property & Catastrophe, Brooklyn, NY (upcoming)

• 2024 Grist 50 List

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