Eileen Neff     /    view selected works
 
Biography

1945
Born in Philadelphia, PA

Education

1967
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

1972
Philadelphia College of Art (University of the Arts), Philadelphia, PA, B.F.A.

1974
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, M.F.A.

Selected Exhibitions, Commissions, and Installations

2007
Eileen Neff: Between Us, Institute of Contemporary, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Emily Dickinson Rendered, Wave Hill House Gallery, New York

2006
Out of the Blue, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA

2005
Critics Select, Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Branch, NJ

2004
Notes toward a Supreme Fiction, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
The Big Nothing, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

2003
H2O, Houghton House Gallery, Hobart and William Smith College, Geneva, NY,
traveled to Danese Gallery, New York, NY

2002
Into the Woods, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

2001
movingStill, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
mixmedia, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Propositions, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Snapshot, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
Mental Wilderness, Gale Gates et al, Brooklyn, NY
The Whole World Including the Poet: Installation, The Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia, PA

2000
The Sea and the Sky, The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland

1999
PA Artists from the Permanent Collection, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA

1998
Paulina Cupana: A Group Show, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY
Eklektika, Side Show Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

1997
Dracula: Photographic Installation, The Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia, PA
Complexity and Contradiction, The Paley Design Center, Philadelphia, PA

1996
Photo Works, Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, PA

1994
Objects and Souvenirs, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Case Studies, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA

1993
Permanent Installation, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA
Rider College Art Gallery, Lawrenceville, NJ
The Landscape of Limitation, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
Mentors, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA

1992
Installation, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Installation, Artists Space, New York, PA

1991
Philadelphia / Wales Exhibition, Oriel Mostyn, North Wales

1990
Installation, Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Group Exhibition, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
Installation, Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Installation, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
Photography Sesquicentennial Project, Momenta Art Alternatives,
Philadelphia, PA
Photography Exhibition, Pennsylvania State University, Abington, PA

1988
Installation, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

1987
Installation, Roland Gibson Gallery, Potsdam, NY

1984
Made in Philadelphia IV, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

1982
Installation, P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY

Grants Awards and Residencies

2002
Artists’ Residency, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

2000
Artist in Residence, The Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia

1996
The Leeway Foundation Grant

1993
Pew Fellowship in the Arts

1992
Artists’ Residency, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia

1991
Critics’ Conference Fellowship, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

1991
Artists’ Residency, La Napoule Art Foundation, La Napoule, France

1989
Fellowship in Visual Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts

1988
Fellowship in Photography, National Endowment for the Arts

1986
Artists’ Residency, Mid-Atlantic States Arts Consortium

1974
University Fellowship, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia
 

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