Williams College, BA, 2003
Northwestern University, MFA, 2010
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 2010
Whitney Independent Study Program, 2020
GRANTS + FELLOWSHIPS + HONORS
2022 Anonymous Was A Woman Nominee
2020 Artadia Chicago Awardee
2020 CAC Spark Grant Awardee
2018 Propeller Fund Awardee
2018 Bemis Center Artist-in-Residence
2018 Yaddo Resident
2018 Ox-Bow, School of Art and Artists’ Residency, Resident
2017 Santa Fe Art Institute, Equal Justice Resident
2016 3Arts Projects, Building a Wall Through My Father
2015 MacDowell Fellow
2015 Creative Capital, On Our Radar
2012 University of Chicago, Arts + Public Life/CSRPC, Artist-in-Residence
PROFESSIONAL
2018- Wikipedia Director, Black Lunch Table, Chicago, IL
2015- Lecturer, School of The Art Institute Chicago, Chicago, IL
2017 Presenter, The Weather Underground: A Night of Radical Imagination, Santa Fe, NM
2014 Panelist, Sculpture X, CCAD, Columbus, OH
2014 Presenter, Carrie Mae Weems LIVE, The Guggenheim, New York, NY
2014 Visiting Artist, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS + PROJECTS + SCREENINGS
2023 In Hand: Contemporary Material Engagements with the Built World, Kennedy Museum of Art, Athens, OH [forthcoming]
BOMB Magazine, Oral History Project, Publication, Spring 2023
2022 All The Light, Logan Center, Chicago, IL
EXPO Chicago, Chicago, IL
2021 Speculative Magenta Hauntology, RUSCHWOMAN, Chicago, IL
2020 Four Flags, Chicago Manual of Style, P.S., Chicago, IL,
Conjuncture, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY,
Wikipedia @ 20, contributor, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA [forthcoming]
This is Not a Gun, contributor, Sming Sming Books, California
2019 garden/ruinate, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2018 The Art of Being Dangerous, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
This is Not a Gun, Montez Press, Interjection Calendar, digital edition
Black Blooded, The New Gallery of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC
Call Me Now!
2017 Thinging Bodies, screening, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
2016 Black Artists Retreat, [B.A.R.], Chicago, IL
Building a Wall Through My Father (dress rehearsal), Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Chicago and Vicinity, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015 Black Artists Retreat, [B.A.R.], Chicago, IL
Make Their Gold Teeth Ache, Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA
2014 Black Artists Retreat, [B.A.R.], Chicago, IL
How to Make A Hood, Arts Incubator, Chicago, IL
go/figure, Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago, IL
2013 Black Artists Retreat, [B.A.R.], Chicago, IL
2012 The Wassaic Project, Summer Festival 2012, Wassaic, NY
Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Local Metric: Majeed, Mooses, Myrie, Logan Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2011 Museum as Hub: Alpha’s Bet Is Not Over Yet!, New Museum, New York, NY
Futuro Perfecto, Zora Space, Brooklyn, NY
ohh manute, Applied Arts, Chicago, IL
2010 SK10 Tompkins Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Uncrumpling This Much Crumpled Thing, The Exhibition Agency, Chicago, IL
Ground Floor, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago, IL
American Demonic, Davidson Contemporary, New York, NY
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Block Museum, Evanston, IL
Drawing Blood, WORK Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009 The Last Supper Festival, 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY
I Heart Art, WORK Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Wish You Were Here 6, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
New ’07, CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY
2006 Voice: Work by Women in Contemporary Art, Providence Art Club, Providence, RI
A Recent History of Personal Myth, Williams Club, New York, NY
PRESS + PUBLICATIONS
Lee, Tori. (2022, August 24) ‘All That Light’ exhibition highlights decade of UChicago resident artists. Retrieved August 27, 2022, from https://news.uchicago.edu/story/all-light-exhibition-highlights-decade-uchicago-resident-artists
Loughman, Monica. (2022, May 16). Eliza Myrie: More Than You See. Retrieved May 31, 2022, from https://www.artistsinrise.com/post/eliza-myrie-more-than-what-you-see
Lepique, Annette. (2021, November 15). The Divine Feminine: A Review of Ruschwoman’s Inaugural Exhibition. Retrieved December 12, 2021 from https://art.newcity.com/2021/11/15/the-divine-feminine-a-review-of-ruschwomans-inaugural-exhibition/
Cardoza, Kerry. (2020, September 03). Art 50 2020: Chicago’s Artists’ Artists. Retrieved May 17, 2021, from https://art.newcity.com/2020/09/03/art-50-2020-chicagos-artists-artists/
Desk, B. (2020, July 09). 2020 Chicago Artadia Awardees Announced. Retrieved August 04, 2020, from https://www.broadwayworld.com/chicago/article/2020-Chicago-Artadia-Awardees-Announced-20200709
Rockett, D. (2020, July 8). Uptown, Garfield Park artists Eliza Myrie and Caroline Kent win $10K from national arts nonprofit Artadia. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved August 4, 2020, from https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-artadia-chicago-winners-0708-20200708-sjllylsbxjcmngcgojngeijrii-story.html
Myrie, E. (2019, October 1). Labrish, and other words(C. Simchak, Interviewer) Newfound, 10(2). Retrieved from https://newfound.org/current-issue/visual-arts-eliza-myrie/
Hunn, Sarrita, and James McAnally, editors. To Make a Public: Temporary Art Review 2011-2016. Seattle, WA, INCA Press, 2016.
Reichert, Elliot. Art 50 2016. September 15th, 2016. http://art.newcity.com/2016/09/15/art-50-2016/5/
Schwartz, Chip. Eliza Myrie and the means of (artistic) production at Vox Populi. March 9th, 2016. http://www.knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2016/3/9/eliza-myrie-artistic-production-vox-populi/
Morris, Matt. Daniel Giles and Eliza Myrie/Roots & Culture. September 29th, 2014. http://art.newcity.com/2014/09/29/review-daniel-giles-and-eliza-myrieroots-culture/
Darby, Angela. “Humanizing A Modernist Icon.” Aesthetica Magazine. June 2012. Print.
Darling, Michael ed. Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity, exhibition catalogue, June 30th- September 23rd 2012, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Ise, Claudine. ‘Skyscraper’ builds meaning behind architectural giants. August 22nd, 2012. http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-ent-0823-skyscraper-art-review-20120822,0,6719067.story
Jemison, Steffani ed., The Reader, exhibition catalogue, October 12th – December 4th 2011, The New Museum, New York, NY
Larson, Jordan. The longitudes and latitudes of “Local Metrics”: an interview with artist Eliza Myrie. July 3rd, 2012. http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2012/07/03/the-longitudes-and-latitudes-of-local-metrics-an-interview-with-artist-eliza-myrie
Wang, Emily. Site Insights. July 9th, 2012. http://mag.uchicago.edu/arts-humanities/site-insights
Kinkley, Jonathan. Uncrumpling This Much Crumpled Thing. September 2010 http://chicago.timeout.com/articles/art-design/88927/uncrumpling-this-much-crumpled-thing-at-the-exhibition-agency-art-review
Chang, Talisa. The Last Supper: Food, Thought, Consumption. October 1st, 2009. http://www.greenpointnews.com/entertainment/the-last-supper-food-thought-consumption
Short, Aaron. Last Supper A Good One. September 29th, 2009. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/last_supper_good_one_WTk7x5LvNRccx2tblAfIbJ
Liese, Jennifer. Voice: Women in Contemporary Art. May 2006. http://www.artforum.com