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JEFF EISENBERG

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b. 1970, Philadelphia, PA

Living in San Francisco, CA



EDUCATION

2005  MFA, Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

1998  Certificate, Sculpture, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

*indicates solo show

2010  Things are Expanding, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA

            Some Re-Assembly Required, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA*

            Stake Your Claim, Eric Dean Gallery, Wabash College, IN*

            Do-It-Yourself Utopias, Chrisopher West Presents, Indianapolis, IN*

2009    Solo Exhibition, Zaum Projects, Lisbon, Portugal*

            Tomorrow, Steven Wolf FIne Arts, San Francisco, CA

2008    Big, Big Bang Small, Small Bucks, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

            Internal Logic, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA*

            Finding a Pulse, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM

            Improvised Territory, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA

            Start, Zaum Projects, Lisbon, Portugal

            Points of Paradox, Annex, San Francisco, CA

            Fresh, Ceresoli Gallery, Las Angeles, CA

            Connected, Gallery 621, Tallahassee, FL

2007    The Little Show, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA

            Introductions, Root Division, San Francisco, CA

            Automatic Transmissions, Ping Pong Galler, San Francisco, CA*

            Systems and Transmutations, Root Division, San Francisco, CA

2006    Drawing No Conclusions, UICA, Grand Rapids, MI

            Artful Text, Art Institute of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA

            5ives, Receiver Gallery, San Francisco, CA

           Momentum, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

           Taste Art, Root Division, San Francisco, CA

           Close Calls, Headlands Center For the Arts, Sausalito, CA           

2005    Paper Cuts (again), Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo, CA

            Paper! Awsome!, Pigman Gallery, San Francico, CA

            Hung, Drawn, and Quartered, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA

            MFA Thesis Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA*

2004    Revisiting Surrealism, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA

            Subject to One’s Self, Play Space, California College of Art, San  Francisco, CA

            A Decade of Art, James Watrous Gallery, Madison, WI

            Peripheration, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco,CA*

            #16-The City, Platform, San Francisco, CA

            Assembly, Cell Space, San Francisco, CA

2003    Deutsche-Amerikanische Freundschast, Subspace Gallery, Berlin, Germany

          Jeff Eisenberg: 1,585 lbs. of Art, Wisconsin Academy Galler, Madison, WI*         

            Dark Spring, Drive Thru Studios, Chicago, IL

2002   Jeff Eisenberg: Paintings, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI*

            Wall-patch, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI

2000    Drawing 2000, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE

1999    Fall Invitational Exhibition, Zone One, Philadelphia, PA

           3rd Annual New Year Invitational Exhibition, Zone One, Philadelphia, PA

 

AWARDS/RECOGNITION

2010    Southern Exposure Alternative Grant, Building Steam, San Francisco, CA

2005    Finalist, Tournesol Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

            Nominee, Headlands Center for the Arts MFA Studio Residency Award, San Francisco, CA

1996    Thuron Prize for Composition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Chandler Prize for

            Construction, H. Mention, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

 

RESIDENCIES

2009    Goldwell Residency Program, Goldwell Open Air Museum, Beatty, NV

2006    Jerome Foundation Residency Award Recipient, Lanesboro Art Center, Lanesboro, MN

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

"Some Re-Assembly Required," ResonantCity.com, December 3, 2010.

Cheng, Dewitt. "Some Re-Assembly Required." East Bay Express, Nov. 2010.

Lee, Sasha. "Interview: Jeff Eisenberg." beautifuldecay.com, Sept. 2009.

Parsons ,Laura. "Linguistic structures Eisenberg shapes his world." The Hook, Oct. 2008.

David Leigh, "Light Always Goes Out." Weekly Alibi, Vol. 17, No. 41 Oct. 2008.

Pulkka, Wesley. "Environment Starts at 516 Arts." The Albuquerque Journal, Oct. 2008.

Cheng, Dewitt. "Improvised Territory: Christopher Loomis' and Jeff Eisenberg's total fabricaiton," East Bay Express, June 13, 2008.

Ruby Mag, Online Publication, Vol. 2, No. 24, December, 2007

Katie Kurtz, “5ives”, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Vol. 40, No. 42, July 19-25, 2006

Jordan Essoe, “Paper Cuts (again) at Fetterly Gallery”, Artweek, Vol. 36, Issue 9, Nov. 2005

Randall Berndt, “Jeff Eisenberg”, Inside The Academy, Vol. 3, No. 1, May, 2003.