Eliza Fernand
b.1983
Education
2021 MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts, Sierra Nevada University, Incline Village NV
2006 BFA in Sculpture, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland OR
Residencies & Grants
2021 Earthwork Farm Artist in Residence, Lake City MI
2018 A.I.R. at Wassaic Project, Wassaic NY
2017 Seed Grant Recipient of ArtPrize & the Frey Foundation
Resident Artist at The Sanctuary Arcata, Arcata CA
2016 Experimental Art Residency at Now Space LA, Los Angeles CA
2015 A.I.R. at Micro Art Space, Cleveland OH
A.I.R. with Violette Alby at Real Time & Space A.I.R., Oakland CA
2014 Frontier Fellowship at The Epicenter, Green River UT
2013 Artist-in-Residence at Have Company, Grand Rapids MI
Visiting Artist at College of Western Idaho, Nampa ID
2012 Real Time & Space A.I.R., Oakland CA
QuickFunds Grant for Individuals, Idaho Commission on the Arts & NEA
2011 Attic 19 Residency with The Art of This Gallery, Minneapolis MN
Top Bunk Domestic Residency, Palouse WA
QuickFunds Grant for Individuals, Idaho Commission on the Arts & NEA
2010 Sous-Lit Residency, Montreal, Quebec Canada
The Quilt Studio of Violette Alby, Ojo Sarco NM
QuickFunds Grant for Individuals, Idaho Commission on the Arts & NEA
Alaska Building AIR Space granted by the Boise City Department of Arts & History , Boise ID
2009 Elsewhere Artists Collaborative, Greensboro NC
2008 A.I.R. at Lobot Gallery, Oakland CA
2007 A.I.R. at 2Angles, FLERS de L'Orne, France
2006 A.I.R. at Peters Valley Craft Center, Layton NJ
Solo Exhibitions / Performances / Screenings
2023 NATR-XXX, Roman Susan Art Foundation, Chicago IL
2022 Concerts Under the Stars with Lazy Genius, Grand Rapids Public Museum, Grand Rapids MI
2021 Eating Sharp Fruit (a variety show in 6 episodes), GRTV, Grand Rapids MI
2019 Flexible Fence, (GRPS Student Collaboration) Project 1, Grand Rapids MI
2018 CONFRONT, Taber Art Gallery, Holyoke MA
2017 EQUITY NOT EQUALITY, The Ladies Literary Club for ArtPrize 9, Grand Rapids MI
2015 Collecting Scraps, The Art League Gallery at South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend IN
A Rainbow in the Desert: Experiments in Patchwork, Micro Art Space, Cleveland OH
DOCUMENT, Calvin College (106) Gallery, Grand Rapids MI
2014 Bright Shroud, Stumptown Downtown, Portland OR
2013 DRAPE + PATCH, Arbor, Oakland CA
Exchanges, Boise Co-op Gallery, Boise ID
Gift Pyramid, College of Western Idaho, Nampa ID
2012 LISTENING, The Art Space at Eagle Performing Arts Center, Eagle ID
Flying Geese Pyramid, HATCH Gallery, Oakland CA
New Works by Eliza Fernand, S.H.E.D. Projects, Oakland CA
Quilt Stories Songs, (installation/performance) Black Hunger, Boise ID
2011 PATCHWORKS, Visual Arts Collective, Boise ID
2010 Piece Pile, Forthrite Printing, Oakland CA
Clad, NATIONALE, Portland OR
2009 billow / ripple, Fort Gallery, Oakland CA
2008 Voluptuary Pair, Gallery Homeland, Portland OR
Substantial Dealings, 21Grand Gallery, Oakland CA
2007 GUSH, (performance) Roulette Intermedium, New York NY
2006 Abstracted Protrusions, Rake Art Gallery, Portland OR
Selected Group Exhibitions / Performances / Screenings
2021 Watery Ghosts, Neutral Ground Artist Run Centre, Regina SK
Corts D’un Soir Film Festival, Short Film Competition, Montreal QC
(w)here, Holman Art Center at Sierra Nevada University, Incline Village NV
beyONd GREEN/$, Hot Wheelz Festival, Chicago IL
The Way Forward, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids MI
The Hibernation Station 2, Hibernation Project, Calgary AB
2019 91st Michigan Contemporary Art Exhibition, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon MI
Ad Astra Per Aspera: 2019 Summer Exhibition, Maxon Mills Gallery at Wassaic Project, Wassaic NY
Outdoor Cat, Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Dallas TX
2017 Fair Play, Brickell City Centre, Miami FL
Resilience in Flux, PAGE Space, Portland OR
Intermural, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor MI
The Jump Off, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids MI
Cryin’ Out Loud, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe NM
Process: Fiber, Light Gallery, Grand Rapids MI
Centrifugal, Praxis Fiber Workshop, Cleveland OH
This Place: Selections from the Frontier, Tahoe Gallery at Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village, NV
2016 The Land of Here and Now: Five Years of Artists at Shared Space Studio, The Fed Galleries of KCAD, Grand Rapids MI
A Call to Place: The first five years of the Frontier Fellowship, Salt Lake City UT
2015 Harmony Murphy Gallery Mural Commission, Los Angeles CA
Urban Institute of Contemporary Art Mural Commission, Grand Rapids MI
2014 Quilt Mountain, Have Company, Grand Rapids MI
2013 EAST, Tillery Park, Austin TX
2012 PNCA Juried Alumni Exhibition, PNCA Swigert Commons, Portland OR
YOUTOPIA, Famous Four Colors, Oakland CA
2011 Uncommon Threads: A Survey of Contemporary Quilts, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, NY NY
Press Plush, Garfo Art Center, Salt Lake City UT
2010 More Than Plush, Gallery Homeland, Portland OR
Arte de Descartes X, Stables Gallery Taos Center for the Arts, Taos NM
Let’s Be Matching SITE Fest 2010 Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn NY
2009 Swell-Sway, Movement Research at Judson Church, New York, NY
( s k i n o f a w a v e ), Public Space ONE, Iowa City IA
Post-Scarcity, 65 GRAND, Chicago IL
Unruffled Bloom, Abco Artspace, Oakland CA
2008 Performance Night at A.I.R., A.I.R. Gallery, New York NY
Flight of the Mechanical Bumble Bee, WCO Center Gallery, New York NY
Guest Artist Residency Exhibition, Peter’s Valley Gallery, Layton NJ
SelfProjections, Milepost 5, Portland OR
The Shape Show, Lobot Gallery, Oakland CA
2007 Skeletal, The Bowery Poetry Club, New York NY
Step into My Office, Kitchen Sink, Portland OR
2006 Vicarious Consumption, The Stone, New York NY
Eliza Fernand & Elodie Goupil, Feldman Gallery, Portland OR
Recent Grads Show, Blackfish Gallery, Portland OR
b.1983
Education
2021 MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts, Sierra Nevada University, Incline Village NV
2006 BFA in Sculpture, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland OR
Residencies & Grants
2021 Earthwork Farm Artist in Residence, Lake City MI
2018 A.I.R. at Wassaic Project, Wassaic NY
2017 Seed Grant Recipient of ArtPrize & the Frey Foundation
Resident Artist at The Sanctuary Arcata, Arcata CA
2016 Experimental Art Residency at Now Space LA, Los Angeles CA
2015 A.I.R. at Micro Art Space, Cleveland OH
A.I.R. with Violette Alby at Real Time & Space A.I.R., Oakland CA
2014 Frontier Fellowship at The Epicenter, Green River UT
2013 Artist-in-Residence at Have Company, Grand Rapids MI
Visiting Artist at College of Western Idaho, Nampa ID
2012 Real Time & Space A.I.R., Oakland CA
QuickFunds Grant for Individuals, Idaho Commission on the Arts & NEA
2011 Attic 19 Residency with The Art of This Gallery, Minneapolis MN
Top Bunk Domestic Residency, Palouse WA
QuickFunds Grant for Individuals, Idaho Commission on the Arts & NEA
2010 Sous-Lit Residency, Montreal, Quebec Canada
The Quilt Studio of Violette Alby, Ojo Sarco NM
QuickFunds Grant for Individuals, Idaho Commission on the Arts & NEA
Alaska Building AIR Space granted by the Boise City Department of Arts & History , Boise ID
2009 Elsewhere Artists Collaborative, Greensboro NC
2008 A.I.R. at Lobot Gallery, Oakland CA
2007 A.I.R. at 2Angles, FLERS de L'Orne, France
2006 A.I.R. at Peters Valley Craft Center, Layton NJ
Solo Exhibitions / Performances / Screenings
2023 NATR-XXX, Roman Susan Art Foundation, Chicago IL
2022 Concerts Under the Stars with Lazy Genius, Grand Rapids Public Museum, Grand Rapids MI
2021 Eating Sharp Fruit (a variety show in 6 episodes), GRTV, Grand Rapids MI
2019 Flexible Fence, (GRPS Student Collaboration) Project 1, Grand Rapids MI
2018 CONFRONT, Taber Art Gallery, Holyoke MA
2017 EQUITY NOT EQUALITY, The Ladies Literary Club for ArtPrize 9, Grand Rapids MI
2015 Collecting Scraps, The Art League Gallery at South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend IN
A Rainbow in the Desert: Experiments in Patchwork, Micro Art Space, Cleveland OH
DOCUMENT, Calvin College (106) Gallery, Grand Rapids MI
2014 Bright Shroud, Stumptown Downtown, Portland OR
2013 DRAPE + PATCH, Arbor, Oakland CA
Exchanges, Boise Co-op Gallery, Boise ID
Gift Pyramid, College of Western Idaho, Nampa ID
2012 LISTENING, The Art Space at Eagle Performing Arts Center, Eagle ID
Flying Geese Pyramid, HATCH Gallery, Oakland CA
New Works by Eliza Fernand, S.H.E.D. Projects, Oakland CA
Quilt Stories Songs, (installation/performance) Black Hunger, Boise ID
2011 PATCHWORKS, Visual Arts Collective, Boise ID
2010 Piece Pile, Forthrite Printing, Oakland CA
Clad, NATIONALE, Portland OR
2009 billow / ripple, Fort Gallery, Oakland CA
2008 Voluptuary Pair, Gallery Homeland, Portland OR
Substantial Dealings, 21Grand Gallery, Oakland CA
2007 GUSH, (performance) Roulette Intermedium, New York NY
2006 Abstracted Protrusions, Rake Art Gallery, Portland OR
Selected Group Exhibitions / Performances / Screenings
2021 Watery Ghosts, Neutral Ground Artist Run Centre, Regina SK
Corts D’un Soir Film Festival, Short Film Competition, Montreal QC
(w)here, Holman Art Center at Sierra Nevada University, Incline Village NV
beyONd GREEN/$, Hot Wheelz Festival, Chicago IL
The Way Forward, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids MI
The Hibernation Station 2, Hibernation Project, Calgary AB
2019 91st Michigan Contemporary Art Exhibition, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon MI
Ad Astra Per Aspera: 2019 Summer Exhibition, Maxon Mills Gallery at Wassaic Project, Wassaic NY
Outdoor Cat, Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Dallas TX
2017 Fair Play, Brickell City Centre, Miami FL
Resilience in Flux, PAGE Space, Portland OR
Intermural, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor MI
The Jump Off, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids MI
Cryin’ Out Loud, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe NM
Process: Fiber, Light Gallery, Grand Rapids MI
Centrifugal, Praxis Fiber Workshop, Cleveland OH
This Place: Selections from the Frontier, Tahoe Gallery at Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village, NV
2016 The Land of Here and Now: Five Years of Artists at Shared Space Studio, The Fed Galleries of KCAD, Grand Rapids MI
A Call to Place: The first five years of the Frontier Fellowship, Salt Lake City UT
2015 Harmony Murphy Gallery Mural Commission, Los Angeles CA
Urban Institute of Contemporary Art Mural Commission, Grand Rapids MI
2014 Quilt Mountain, Have Company, Grand Rapids MI
2013 EAST, Tillery Park, Austin TX
2012 PNCA Juried Alumni Exhibition, PNCA Swigert Commons, Portland OR
YOUTOPIA, Famous Four Colors, Oakland CA
2011 Uncommon Threads: A Survey of Contemporary Quilts, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, NY NY
Press Plush, Garfo Art Center, Salt Lake City UT
2010 More Than Plush, Gallery Homeland, Portland OR
Arte de Descartes X, Stables Gallery Taos Center for the Arts, Taos NM
Let’s Be Matching SITE Fest 2010 Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn NY
2009 Swell-Sway, Movement Research at Judson Church, New York, NY
( s k i n o f a w a v e ), Public Space ONE, Iowa City IA
Post-Scarcity, 65 GRAND, Chicago IL
Unruffled Bloom, Abco Artspace, Oakland CA
2008 Performance Night at A.I.R., A.I.R. Gallery, New York NY
Flight of the Mechanical Bumble Bee, WCO Center Gallery, New York NY
Guest Artist Residency Exhibition, Peter’s Valley Gallery, Layton NJ
SelfProjections, Milepost 5, Portland OR
The Shape Show, Lobot Gallery, Oakland CA
2007 Skeletal, The Bowery Poetry Club, New York NY
Step into My Office, Kitchen Sink, Portland OR
2006 Vicarious Consumption, The Stone, New York NY
Eliza Fernand & Elodie Goupil, Feldman Gallery, Portland OR
Recent Grads Show, Blackfish Gallery, Portland OR