Eileen Ferara is a visual artist who incorporates a variety of media in her work, including printmaking, book arts, drawing, and paper making. Drawing inspiration from the natural world, her work explores our relationship to the environment. She is a 2019 Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation resident artist and received a Puffin Foundation grant in 2017. Her work is in the collection of the William Paterson University Galleries, The King St Stephens Museum of Hungary, and numerous private collections. She has an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Selected Exhibitions
2016 Ink, Press, Repeat, Juried by Phil Sanders, William Paterson University Galleries, NJ
2016 The Cure for Anything, Walsh Gallery at Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ
2016 Contemporary Hudson County, Hudson County Community College, Jersey City, NJ
2015 Estuary, Solo Project Room at Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
2014 Thou Art Mom, Pierro Gallery, S. Orange, NJ
2014 Metro 31, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
2013 Raw Drawing, Victory Arts at the Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
2013 5th International Artist’s Book Exhibition, King St Stephen Museum, Hungary
2013 The Drive Home: Print Exchange, Blackburn 20/20, NY, NY,
2012 Ten Collection at TenMarc, Gaia anniversary Exhibit, Jersey City, NJ
2012 Unbound: Artist’s Books from the Permanent Collection, William Paterson University Galleries, NJ
2012 City Without Walls, Small Works Exhibition, Newark, NJ
2011 International Print and Stencil Exchange Exhibition, Manhattan Graphics Center, NYC
2011 Naming the Animals, Curious Matters at Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Food For Thought Exhibition, Sumei Multidisciplinary Gallery, Newark, NJ
2008 52nd Annual National Print Exhibit, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Hunterdon, NJ
2008 Love is for Lovely People, Victory Arts Projects, Jersey City, NJ
2008 Print Plus, Brennan Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2007 Corporeal, Book as body, Body as book, Rutgers Dana Library, Newark, NJ
2007 Mother of God: Wonder Women II, Mana Fine Art, Jersey City NJ
2007 What Have You Got to Say? Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Hand-Pulled, Victory Hall, Jersey City NJ
2003 47th Annual Print Exhibition, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton NJ
2002 Love & Sex, Printmaking Council of NJ, North Branch, NJ
2000 Emerging artists Unusual Art Exhibit, HEREArt New York, NY
Awards and Collections
2013 King St Stephen Museum, Artist’s Books Collection, Székesfehérvár, Hungary
2007 Purchase Prize, American Impressions, William Paterson Univ. Galleries, NJ
Education
BFA Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI
MFA School of Visual Arts, New York NY
Selected Bibliography
2007 Visionary Interviews, Noelle Lorraine Williams, Reborn, March
2005 Changing the Pace with Prints, Christian Niedan, The Jersey Journal, 13 March
2003 Local Artist Features ‘Jersey Girls’ in exhibit, Mary Birmingham, Jersey Journal, 10 Oct
2002 A Printmaker’s Work as Mirrored by Others, William Zimmer, New York Times, 5 Dec
2002 Labor of Love, Ralph Bellantoni, Courier News, 14 Feb
Related Experience
2016 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
2009 Food For Thought group exhibit and workshop, Sumei Multidisciplinary Art Center, Newark, NJ
2007 Curator ”Demolition” Art Across the Plaza, group exhibit
2007 Residency Project, Gaia’s Wonder Women II, Hoboken NJ
2005 Co-Curator for Hand-Pulled, a group printmaking exhibition at Victory Hall
2016 Ink, Press, Repeat, Juried by Phil Sanders, William Paterson University Galleries, NJ
2016 The Cure for Anything, Walsh Gallery at Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ
2016 Contemporary Hudson County, Hudson County Community College, Jersey City, NJ
2015 Estuary, Solo Project Room at Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
2014 Thou Art Mom, Pierro Gallery, S. Orange, NJ
2014 Metro 31, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
2013 Raw Drawing, Victory Arts at the Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
2013 5th International Artist’s Book Exhibition, King St Stephen Museum, Hungary
2013 The Drive Home: Print Exchange, Blackburn 20/20, NY, NY,
2012 Ten Collection at TenMarc, Gaia anniversary Exhibit, Jersey City, NJ
2012 Unbound: Artist’s Books from the Permanent Collection, William Paterson University Galleries, NJ
2012 City Without Walls, Small Works Exhibition, Newark, NJ
2011 International Print and Stencil Exchange Exhibition, Manhattan Graphics Center, NYC
2011 Naming the Animals, Curious Matters at Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Food For Thought Exhibition, Sumei Multidisciplinary Gallery, Newark, NJ
2008 52nd Annual National Print Exhibit, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Hunterdon, NJ
2008 Love is for Lovely People, Victory Arts Projects, Jersey City, NJ
2008 Print Plus, Brennan Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2007 Corporeal, Book as body, Body as book, Rutgers Dana Library, Newark, NJ
2007 Mother of God: Wonder Women II, Mana Fine Art, Jersey City NJ
2007 What Have You Got to Say? Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Hand-Pulled, Victory Hall, Jersey City NJ
2003 47th Annual Print Exhibition, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton NJ
2002 Love & Sex, Printmaking Council of NJ, North Branch, NJ
2000 Emerging artists Unusual Art Exhibit, HEREArt New York, NY
Awards and Collections
2013 King St Stephen Museum, Artist’s Books Collection, Székesfehérvár, Hungary
2007 Purchase Prize, American Impressions, William Paterson Univ. Galleries, NJ
Education
BFA Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI
MFA School of Visual Arts, New York NY
Selected Bibliography
2007 Visionary Interviews, Noelle Lorraine Williams, Reborn, March
2005 Changing the Pace with Prints, Christian Niedan, The Jersey Journal, 13 March
2003 Local Artist Features ‘Jersey Girls’ in exhibit, Mary Birmingham, Jersey Journal, 10 Oct
2002 A Printmaker’s Work as Mirrored by Others, William Zimmer, New York Times, 5 Dec
2002 Labor of Love, Ralph Bellantoni, Courier News, 14 Feb
Related Experience
2016 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
2009 Food For Thought group exhibit and workshop, Sumei Multidisciplinary Art Center, Newark, NJ
2007 Curator ”Demolition” Art Across the Plaza, group exhibit
2007 Residency Project, Gaia’s Wonder Women II, Hoboken NJ
2005 Co-Curator for Hand-Pulled, a group printmaking exhibition at Victory Hall
