RESUME

Eleanor Conover

Born 1988 Hartford, CT

Lives and works in Carlisle, PA 

EDUCATION

2018 Master of Fine Arts, Painting, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

2017 Temple University Rome, Rome, Italy, spring semester

2010 Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

EXHIBITIONS

2023

Headspace, Abattoir, Cleveland, OH

Made in Paint, Sam and Adele Golden Foundation, New Berlin, NY

2022

Side Angle Tide, List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA

A Good Jawn, curated by Brittany Adeline King, White Columns Online

Right to Repair, curated by Caitlin MacBride, Hudson House, Hudson, NY

Weather Reader, Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA

2021

Parts of an Immense Whole, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME 

Glass Half Moon, Jewett Gallery, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

Learning from the Steep Slope, Bad Water, Knoxville, TN

Flat File 2021 Program, Ortega Y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY

2020

Shelter (Earth, House, Body, Spirit), juried virtual exhibit, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME

In Union, Remotely (virtual); Shaker Museum, Mount Lebanon, NY

While You Were Out, VSC alumni digital group show, Red Mill Gallery, Johnson, VT

AIR Show, Maine Farmland Trust, Belfast, ME

2018

The Course of Weather (solo), C for Courtside, Knoxville, TN

After, Against, Among, Temple Contemporary, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA

The Tiny Biennale, Temple University Rome Gallery, Rome, Italy

Strutture Aperte: Libri d'Artista, Temple University Gallery, Rome, Italy

2017

MFA First Year Show, Temple University Gallery, Rome, Italy

The Tiny Biennale, Temple University Rome Gallery, Rome, Italy

Independent Show, Philadelphia, PA 

Ocotillo, The Stella Elkins Tyler Galleries, Philadelphia, PA

2014

NMH Art Faculty, The Gallery at the Rhodes Art Center, Mt. Hermon, MA       

2012

Work by Four, The Gallery at the Rhodes Art Center, Mt. Hermon, MA

2010

Fresh and Salty, Ten High Street Gallery, Camden, ME

AWARDS AND PROJECTS

2020-21 Alice C. Cole Fellowship, Wellesley College

2018 Tyler School of Art Dean’s Grant for Student Research

2016-18 Temple University Presidential Fellowship

2018 First Year MFA Show, Co-curator,  Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA

2015-16 Conservation Media Group Filmmaker-in-Residence Grant, Kensington, NH

2014 Filmmaker, National Science Foundation funded expedition for University of 

Maine research in Aleutian Islands, AK

2012 Official Selection, Camden International Film Festival “Heirloom,” Co-Produced/Directed

RESIDENCIES

2022 Sam and Adele Goldon Foundation, New Berlin, NY

         Eastern Frontier Educational Association, Norton Island, ME

2019 Joseph A. Fiore Art Center, Jefferson, ME

2015 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

2014 Cow House Studios, Co. Wexford, Ireland

TEACHING

2021-      Assistant Professor of Art, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA

2018-21  Lecturer in Painting and Drawing, School of Art, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. 

2017-18  Instructor of Record, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

2011-16  English and Visual Arts Teacher,  Northfield Mount Hermon School, Mt. Hermon, MA. 

LECTURES / INVITED TALKS

2023 West Chester University 

2022 Donald J. Gordon Visiting Artist, Swarthmore College

2021 Wellesley College 

2018 School of Art, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

2018 “The Mediated Seascape in the Roman Periphery,” Print Think, Rome, Italy

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Lauren Whearty, "Eleanor Conover, elusive abstractions with bold materiality, in ‘Side Angle Tide’ at List Gallery, Swarthmore, December 12, 2022

Two Coats of Paint, Hudson Valley Selected Gallery Guide, August 2022

Jorge S. Arango, “Juxtaposing the Work of Joseph A. Fiore and Friends.” Herald, Sept. 5 2021

 New American Paintings, No. 148, South Issue, juried by Emily Stamey

Tara Kaufman, “Eleanor Conover” in Versus Portland Press , Tyler School of Art, Temple University