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RESUME
Sophie Eisner sophieeisner.com sophie@sophieeisner.com
Solo Exhibitions
2020 The Landing Field, Zimbabwe Cultural Center of Detroit, MI
Now, Not Forever, Laurel Cottage, Norfolk, CT
An Extended Moment of Transition, H Space and Muted Horn, Cleveland, OH
2019 Absolute Truth, Simone DeSousa Gallery, Detroit, MI
2015 The Wall, Kit and Ace, Detroit, MI
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Build on This Gesture, Flaten Art Museum, Northfield, MN
2022 Homebody, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2020 Ari, Public Pool, Hamtramck, MI
Out of the Air, White Brick Gallery, Ferndale, MI
2019 We Live Here, 1301 Broadway, Detroit, MI
2018 Edition 18, Simone DeSousa Gallery, Detroit, MI
Attachment to Function, 1301 Broadway, Detroit, MI
Art @ the Max IV, Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall, Detroit MI
Matter, Matter, Object, Wall, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
A Line of Beauty, Cranbrook House, Bloomfield Hills, MI
The Collective Experiment, The Carr Center, Detroit, MI
2017 Suspended States, Tesselate, Pontiac, MI
Have + Hold, Wasserman Projects, Detroit, MI
Bent, But Unbroken, Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI
Nasty Women, Binders of Them, Cave Gallery, Detroit, MI
2016 You Are Here, The Carr Center, Detroit, MI
Annual Regional Exhibition, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
1966: Remixed, Crooked Tree Art Center, Traverse City, MI
2015 Cranbrook Graduate Degree Exhibition, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Performative Materials, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Birmingham, MI
Experiencing Perspectives, Mercedes Benz Financial Services, Farmington Hills, MI
Coffee and Tea (Part II), Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
2014 Pyrocognitions, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Birmingham, MI
Wood - Metal - Stone, The Meeting House Gallery, New Marlborough, MA
2013 Emergence 13, Ford Gallery, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
En Masse, Riggs & Leidy Galleries, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2012 Selected Works, LL Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Cary Sculpture Park, Salem Art Works, Salem, VT
2011 Northern New England Museum of Contemporary Art Collection, Burlington, VT
Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN
2010 Original Juried Show, Burlington South End Art Hop, VT
Book Juice, Green Door Gallery, Burlington, VT
Awards and Residencies
2022 Artist Grant, Flaten Art Museum, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
Fine Arts Faculty Travel Grant, St. Olaf College Dean’s Fund, Northfield MN
Professional Development Grant, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
Walkaway House artist residency, North Adams, MA
2021 Mass MoCA Assets for Artists residency, North Adams, MA
2020 Yaddo artist residency, Saratoga Springs, NY
Louise Bourgeois Award, Corporation of Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
Popps Packing artist residency, Hamtramck, MI
2019 Monson Arts artist residency, Monson, ME
Drop Forge and Tool collaborative artist residency with Manal Shoukair, Hudson, NY
2018 Zimbabwe Cultural Center of Detroit Research Fellowship, Mutare, Zimbabwe
The Hambidge Center artist residency, Rabun Gap, GA
2017 Teton ArtLab artist residency Jackson, WY
2016 Juror’s Award 2nd Place, Muskegon Museum of Art Annual Regional Exhibition, Muskegon, MI
Best in Show, Never Not Broken, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
2014 Pilchuck Glass School and Cranbrook Academy of Art Partner Scholarship
Related Professional Work and Lectures
2021-23 Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
2019-20 Adjunct Faculty in Fine Arts, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2018 Founder/Director of One to One, a small-scale collaborative residency
“Material and Meaning” lecture at National Gallery School of Visual Art and Design, Harare, Zimbabwe
Visiting Artist, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
“Non-Linear Narrative and the Language of Materials” lecture at College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
Visiting Artist, University of Louisville, KY
“Things Are More Than One Thing” Bullitt Memorial Lecture, University of Louisville, KY
2016 Visiting Artist, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2015-17 Metal Artist/Fabricator, Iron Raven, Clarkston, MI
2013 The Work of Ted Noten” Contemporary Art Jewelry Panel Presentation, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou,China
Publications and Press
2023 “Sophie Eisner Welds the Scars of Her Past” Sarah Rose Sharp, Hyperallergic, posted May 4, 2023 https://hyperallergic.com/819133/sophie-eisner-welds-the-scars-of-her-past/
“Between the Womb and the Waiting Room: 9 the Intimacy of Non-Spaces in the Works of Sophie W. Eisner” Zoe Cinel, Build on This Gesture catalog, produced by The Flaten Art Museum.
2020 “Fruit Stickers” Sophie Eisner, The Plague Review 4, October, Ryan Standfest, ed. (Rotland Press, Detroit) http://rotlandpress.com/plague-review
“Familiar and Ever So Slightly Askew,” Stephen Melville, Norfolk Now, September.
2019 “AM,” Sophie Eisner, Detroit Sequential Vol.1 No. 2, Ryan Standfest, ed., (Detroit Novelty Press, Rotland Press)
2018 “Sophie Eisner” Dennis Alan Nawrocki, Steve Panton, and Matthew Piper, eds., Essay’d 3: 30, Detroit Artists (Wayne State University Press)
“Matter, Matter, Object, Wall @ Ann Arbor Art Center” by Loraine Lynn, Loranitude: Michigan art (blog). Posted June 17, 2018. https://loranitude.wordpress.com/tag/michigan-art/
“Flopping Things Over Other Things with Sophie Eisner” by Sarah Rose Sharp, Breakfast with the Artist (blog). posted Feb. 27, 2018. http://sarahrosesharp.com/2018/02/27/2222018-floppingthings-over-other-things-with- sophie-eisner/
#wcw: Sophie Eisner, sculpting through Detroit” RL Concetti, The Blog (blog). posted April 18, 2018. http://www.rlconcetti.com/entertainment/wcw-sophie-eisner-sculping-through-detroit/
2017 “Butter Projects @ Wasserman Projects,” Clara DeGalan, Detroit Art Review, Aug. 11
“Visiting Sculptors Host Minishows at Artlab,” E.Dahlby, Jackson Hole News & Guide, April 12
Installment #89, Allegra Rosenbaum, Essay’d, December 29, http://essayd.org/?p=2055
2016 “‘You Are Here’ Exhibit Rocks Carr Center,” M. H. Hodges, Detroit News, Nov. 21
2015 Experiencing Perspectives catalogue, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, Farmington Hills, MI
Education
2015 MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2013 Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2007 BA, Carleton College, Northfield, MN