ABOUT THE ARTIST
Evelyn Eller is a native New Yorker, who attended a high school with a focus on
art. One of her teachers was a student of Hans Hoffman. She then went to the Art
Students League in New York for three years on a scholarship, taking classes
with Morris Kantor and Will Barnet. She later studied in Rome on a Fulbright
Fellowship and was a resident at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY.
Evelyn has worked in various mediums, oil and acrylic paintings, and
printmaking, but her primary medium now is paper collage and artists books. She
has traveled extensively. Her interest in travel and other cultures is reflected
in the use of different languages in her artists’ books and language fragment
collages as well as her landscape images.
Evelyn has exhibited widely, nationally and internationally, at the Whitney,
Queens and Brooklyn Museums in New York City, The Smithsonian, National Jewish
Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., and in Mexico, Hungary,
Switzerland, Italy, India and Germany, and other exhibition spaces. She is
represented in numerous public and corporate collections in the United States
and abroad, including: Citicorp, Exxon, the Museum of the City of New York,
Indianapolis Museum of Fine Art, Ind., the Library of the Museum of Modern Art,
NY, the Brooklyn Museum, NY, the Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY, the National
Museum of Women in the Arts, Wash. D.C., Tyler Museum of Art, Texas, King
Stephens Museum, Hungary, El Archivero, Mexico, Health and Hospital Corp, NY,
Sackner Archive, FL., University of California, LA, University of Alberta,
Canada, University of Western Michigan, MI, University of Vermont, Vermont, and
Yale University in Conn.
Evelyn continues to live in New York, working on paintings, prints, collages
and artist’s books.
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