biography - Experimental Project

eva mayer
visual arts
4400, rue Fabre
Montréal (Québec)
Canada H2J 3V3
tel .: 514 419-4623
e-mail: [email protected]
web: www.evamayer.com
BIOGRAPHY
The Austrian artist Eva Mayer was born in 1975 and presently resides and works in
Montreal. She studied stage design at the Salzburg Academy of Music and Performing
Arts Mozarteum in Austria and at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, in the
United States.
Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions in Strasbourg, Brussels and Paris, and
as part of collective exhibitions in France, Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Lithuania
and the United States. These exhibitions include, among others: I-Brow at the Los
Angeles Center For Digital Art, Trente exhibition at the Summer Photographic
Festival in Trégor, France, and Women and Mystery at the Festival Kaunas Photo
Days in Lithuania. Her work was also exhibited at the Salon d’art contemporain de
Montrouge (Paris) in 2006, and once again in 2007. From 2007 to 2009 her work was
included in the international curator project called Jeune Création Européenne. In 2009
her work was shown as well at a group exhibition called Verdure in France and at
Rev’arts, the biennale of contemporary art of Bezon.
Series of photographs taken by this artist have been published in several
contemporary art catalogues and journals including Afterimage (USA), Frankfurter
Rundschau (Germany) and Le Mois de la photographie in Paris. Eva Mayer was also
artist in residence in Paliano (Italy) in 2007. In 2009 she was the laureate at the artshare programme, Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes where she spent
threez months working in in Alma, Québec.
eva mayer
visual arts
SINGLE EXHIBITIONS
S’exposer aux intempéries, Atelier Graff, Montréal, 2013
Galerie Vittorio Serio, Les improbables, Paris, France, 2010
To every day its farwell, Centre Langage Plus et Centre Sagamie, Québec, 2009
Elsewhere, National Theatre of Strasbourg, France, 2007
Revival, L’Usine Galerie, Bruxelles, 2007
Extra(ordinary), La Peripherie, France, 2007
GROUPE EXHIBITIONS
Photocollection, Photo festival, Paris, France, 2010
Rev’arts, Biennale of contemporary art, Bezons, France, 2009
Exhibtion of contemporary art, Guyancourt, France, 2009
Trente, Estivales photographiques du Trégor, France, 2008
I-Brow, Los Angeles Center For Digital Art, USA, 2007
Jeune Création European, Biennale of Contemorary Art, Europe 2007-2009
Kaunas Photo Days, Lituanie, 2007
On the other Side, gallery La Périphérie, Paris, 2007
Contemporary Art Fair de Montrouge, Paris, 2007
Photo Festival, Lacanau, France, 2007
Kaunas Photo Days, Lithuania, 2006
Contemporary Art Fair de Montrouge, Paris, 2006
Boutographie, Photo Festival, Montpellier, France, 2006
20 Photographes d’aujourd’hui, Espace Dialogos, Paris, 2006
Gallery La Peripherie, Paris, 2005
Photobis, Photo festival, Paris, 2005
Rencontre de la photogaphie du 10ème”, Paris, 2005
EDUCATION
University of Tennessee, USA, 1998 - 1999
University of Music and Dramatic Arts Mozarteum, Austria, 1995 - 1998
RESIDENCYS AND GRANTS
Vivacité (Grant), Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, 2013
Martha Street Studio (Residency), Winnipeg, 2013
Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes (Residency), Alma, Canada, 2009
Gouvernement Autrichienne, (Residency), Paliano (Rome), Italie, 2007
PUBLICATIONS
Book edition, Sagamie éditions d’art,Quebec
Exhibition catalogue, Photocollection, France
Portfolio, Afterimage, USA
Catalogue, Jeune Création Européenne, France
Portfolio, Frankfurter Rundschau, Allemagne
Exhibition catalogue, Salon d’Art Contemporain de Montrouge, France
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