photo by Kerry Kolenut
Eileen Ferara is a visual artist who incorporates a variety of media in her work, including printmaking, book arts, sculpture, painting, and paper making. Drawing inspiration from the natural world, her work explores our relationship to the environment. She was a 2019 Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation winter artist resident. Ferara received a Puffin Foundation grant in 2017 for her artist book project about non-native invasive seed pod Trapa Natans L., also known as Devil’s head pods. Her work is in the collection of the William Paterson University Galleries, The King St Stephens Museum of Hungary, and numerous private collections. Ferara has an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She was born in New York City, and currently lives and works in Jersey City, NJ.
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Solo Exhibitions
2017 ‘Invasion,’ printstallation, _gaia gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2015 ‘Estuary,’ Project Rooms show, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 “Freed Formats: the Book Reconsidered,” traveling exhibit, RIdgefield, CT, curators Alice Walsh and Chris Perry
“Winter Print show,” Eonta Space, Jersey City, NJ
2018 “Gashapon,” the Creativity Caravan, Montclair, NJ, curator Asha Ganpat
“Radunarsi,” Eileen Ferara and Linda Streicher, Casa Colombo, Jersey City, NJ
“Opulence: not everything that glitters is gold,” the Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
“JC at AC,” Noyes Museum of Art, Atlantic City, NJ, curator Anne Trauben
2017 “String Theories, Show #42,” Field Projects Gallery, New York, NY, curator Charlotte Mouquin
“Borderless,” Merseles Studios, Jersey City, NJ, curator Lucy Rovetto
2016 “Ink, Press, Repeat,” William Paterson University Galleries, NJ, juror Phil Sanders
“The Cure for Anything,’ Walsh Gallery at Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ
"Contemporary Hudson County,’" Dineen Hull Gallery, Hudson County Community College, NJ
2014 ‘Metro 31 Small Works show,’ traveling exhibit, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
“Thou Art Mom,” Pierro Gallery, S. Orange, NJ, curator Susan Evans Grove
Awards and Collections
2019 Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation Winter Residency, Jersey City, NJ
2017 Puffin Foundation Grant, Teaneck, NJ
2009 Residency project, Food For Thought, Sumei Multidisciplinary Art Center, Newark, NJ
2007 Purchase Prize, American Impressions, William Paterson Univ. Galleries, NJ
Residency Project, Gaia’s Wonder Women II, Hoboken NJ
Related Experience
2018 Panel Talk, Wonder Women 11: Eye of the Storm, Dineen Gallery HCCC, Jersey City, NJ
Co-Curator, “Wonder Women 11: Eye of the Storm,” H. Lemmerman Gallery, NJCU Visual Arts Gallery, Jersey City, NJ,
Co-curator Doris Cacoilo
2017 “On a Different Page,” Book art exhibit, New Jersey City University Visual Arts Gallery, NJ
2016 “Windows on Columbus,” Pro Arts window and lobby space at Mack-Cali Inc.
Teaching Artist Residency, Daniel Webster School, Weehawken, NJ
2011 365 Days of Print, Mining endangered Print Media, Artist daily Blog
2010 Greenville firehouse kitchen table Mural project, Jersey City, NJ
2007 Curator ”Demolition” Art Across the Plaza, group exhibit
2005 Co-Curator for Hand-Pulled, a group printmaking exhibition at Victory Hall
2017 ‘Invasion,’ printstallation, _gaia gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2015 ‘Estuary,’ Project Rooms show, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 “Freed Formats: the Book Reconsidered,” traveling exhibit, RIdgefield, CT, curators Alice Walsh and Chris Perry
“Winter Print show,” Eonta Space, Jersey City, NJ
2018 “Gashapon,” the Creativity Caravan, Montclair, NJ, curator Asha Ganpat
“Radunarsi,” Eileen Ferara and Linda Streicher, Casa Colombo, Jersey City, NJ
“Opulence: not everything that glitters is gold,” the Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
“JC at AC,” Noyes Museum of Art, Atlantic City, NJ, curator Anne Trauben
2017 “String Theories, Show #42,” Field Projects Gallery, New York, NY, curator Charlotte Mouquin
“Borderless,” Merseles Studios, Jersey City, NJ, curator Lucy Rovetto
2016 “Ink, Press, Repeat,” William Paterson University Galleries, NJ, juror Phil Sanders
“The Cure for Anything,’ Walsh Gallery at Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ
"Contemporary Hudson County,’" Dineen Hull Gallery, Hudson County Community College, NJ
2014 ‘Metro 31 Small Works show,’ traveling exhibit, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
“Thou Art Mom,” Pierro Gallery, S. Orange, NJ, curator Susan Evans Grove
Awards and Collections
2019 Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation Winter Residency, Jersey City, NJ
2017 Puffin Foundation Grant, Teaneck, NJ
2009 Residency project, Food For Thought, Sumei Multidisciplinary Art Center, Newark, NJ
2007 Purchase Prize, American Impressions, William Paterson Univ. Galleries, NJ
Residency Project, Gaia’s Wonder Women II, Hoboken NJ
Related Experience
2018 Panel Talk, Wonder Women 11: Eye of the Storm, Dineen Gallery HCCC, Jersey City, NJ
Co-Curator, “Wonder Women 11: Eye of the Storm,” H. Lemmerman Gallery, NJCU Visual Arts Gallery, Jersey City, NJ,
Co-curator Doris Cacoilo
2017 “On a Different Page,” Book art exhibit, New Jersey City University Visual Arts Gallery, NJ
2016 “Windows on Columbus,” Pro Arts window and lobby space at Mack-Cali Inc.
Teaching Artist Residency, Daniel Webster School, Weehawken, NJ
2011 365 Days of Print, Mining endangered Print Media, Artist daily Blog
2010 Greenville firehouse kitchen table Mural project, Jersey City, NJ
2007 Curator ”Demolition” Art Across the Plaza, group exhibit
2005 Co-Curator for Hand-Pulled, a group printmaking exhibition at Victory Hall
