Install for 'The Embankment On My Mind Exhibit, Nov. 2022.
Eileen Ferara is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose work is focused on our human relationship to the environment. Drawing inspiration from the natural world, she uses printmaking, painting, paper making, drawing, and sculpture to create art based on observation, research and imagination.
Ferara’s work has been in numerous exhibits in the United States. In 2022 she was the recipient of a Jersey City Arts and Culture Individual Artist Fellowship, and in 2019, Ferara was an artist-in-residence at Fire Island National Seashore in New York and an Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation resident artist at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City. She was awarded a 2017 Puffin Foundation grant supporting her print installation on the invasive plant species Trapa Natans L. Her work is in the collection of the William Paterson University Galleries, The King St. Stephens Museum of Hungary, Memorial Sloan Kettering and many private collectors. Ferara holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Ferara is a New York area artist who was born in the Bronx. She currently resides in Jersey City.
Ferara’s work has been in numerous exhibits in the United States. In 2022 she was the recipient of a Jersey City Arts and Culture Individual Artist Fellowship, and in 2019, Ferara was an artist-in-residence at Fire Island National Seashore in New York and an Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation resident artist at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City. She was awarded a 2017 Puffin Foundation grant supporting her print installation on the invasive plant species Trapa Natans L. Her work is in the collection of the William Paterson University Galleries, The King St. Stephens Museum of Hungary, Memorial Sloan Kettering and many private collectors. Ferara holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Ferara is a New York area artist who was born in the Bronx. She currently resides in Jersey City.
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Solo Exhibitions
2023 Uneasy Balance, The Hutchins Galleries at the Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ
2017 Invasion, print installation, _gaia gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2015 Estuary, Project Rooms exhibit, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Elemental Effects: Water + Wind + Earth + Fire, The Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, Loveladies, NJ,
juried by Linda Weintraub
2021 This Urban Green World, The Galleries of the Interchurch Center, New York, NY, curated by Jennifer Roberts
Witnessing Change, Artists Focusing on the Natural Environment, Omni Gallery, Uniondale, NY
Considering the Natural Environment: Artist as Witness, St Joseph’s College, Patchogue, NY
Our Connection with Nature, Gallery Sitka, West Shirley, MA, curated by Beth Barry
2019. Nature and Landscape, Fine Arts Gallery at St Peter’s University, Jersey City, NJ
Freed Formats: the Book Reconsidered, traveling exhibit, RIdgefield, CT, curators Alice Walsh and Chris Perry
2018 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, curated by Chelsea Levine and Katherine Tedesco
Contemporary Hudson County, Dineen Hull Gallery, Hudson County Community College, NJ
Awards and Collections
2024 Liquitex Winter Resident Artist
2022 Jersey City Arts and Culture Individual Artist Fellowship Recipient
Puffin Foundation Grant, Teaneck, NJ
2019 Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation Winter Residency, Jersey City, NJ
Fire Island National Seashore Artist Residency, Watch Hill Fire Island, NY
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
Curatorial Projects
2021 Too Much!, Overconsumption and Our Relationship to Stuff, group exhibit, New Jersey City University Visual Arts Gallery, NJ
2019 On a Different Page, Book art exhibit, Mikhail Zakin Gallery, Demarest NJ
2019 Wonder Women 11: Eye of the Storm, Pingry School, Basking Ridge, NJ co-curator Doris Cacoilo
Links
Liquitex Artist Residency
Freed Formats ESKFF Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation Drawing Rooms Thou Art Mom |
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