Eileen Olivieri Torpey divides her time between New York
City and New Mexico. She received her BA in Sociology/Anthropology
from Lewis and Clark College and her MFA from Mason Gross
School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Her artwork is
exhibited both nationally and internationally and involves
video, drawing and installation. Recent exhibitions include,
Blender at Sundaram Tagore Gallery, NYC, Renters:
An Aesthetic Insertion in Santa Fe, Megabytes
at The Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe, Form
and Emptiness at The Mark Woolley Gallery in Portland,
Bloc-Busta at the Design Warehouse in Santa Fe,
Hum • Hover • Dive at the Soap Factory
in Minneapolis. In 2004 her work was shown at The Rosenwald-Wolf
Gallery, University of the Arts in Philadelphia, The
Safe-T Gallery in Brooklyn and at the VI International
Digital Art Exhibit in Havana, Cuba. In 2003 she had
a one-person show of drawings and video at The aRaMoNa
Studio Gallery in New York City. In 2001 she received
a grant from the US Embassy to install public art pieces
in Reykjavik, Iceland. She is a two-time recipient of
a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation grant. In 1999 Ms. Torpey
performed at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York City.
Currently, she is working as a producer of an independent
feature film and as a freelance videographer/video archivist.
EDUCATION
|
| 2001 |
Master
of Fine Art, Rutgers University, Mason Gross
School of the Arts, New Brunswick, NJ |
| 1990 |
Bachelor
of Art, Anthropology and Sociology, Lewis and
Clark College, Portland, OR |
| 1989 |
Ethnographic
Field School, Mexico, Studied Pai Pai pottery
and Ethnobotany |
| 1988 |
Lewis
& Clark College Study Abroad Program, Indonesia
Studied visual and performing art in Java, Bali, Sulawesi
and Irian Jaya |
EXHIBITIONS
|
| 2006 |
Blender, curated by Cordy Ryman, Sundaram
Tagore Gallery, New York, NY
Noche Delicious, curated by Sheilah Wilson, Madrid, NM
Renters: An Aesthetic Insertion, curated by Merchant Adams,
Santa Fe, NM
Collect: Inside 8, Center for Contemporary
Arts, Santa Fe, NM |
| 2005 |
Form and Emptiness, curated by Jen Richardson,
Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR
Bloc Busta, curated by Franky Kong, Design
Warehouse Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Hum • Hover • Dive, Soap Factory,
Minneapolis, MN
Works on Paper, curated by Aaron Williams,
Brookdale Community College, Lincroff, NJ |
| 2004 |
SUBjected, curated by Hilary Lorenz,
Safe-T Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Traces, curated by Sid Sachs, Rosenwald-Wolf
Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2003 |
land marks, drawings and video, aRaMoNa
Gallery, New York, NY (solo)* |
| 2002-2004 |
Drift, annual site-specific installations:
River Run Farm, Manasquan, NJ and Valentino Pier Park,
Brooklyn, NY |
| 2003 |
Recent Drawings, site-specific installation,
Hallway Project Space, Gallery PS122, NY, NY |
| 2001 |
pools, outdoor public installation in
Reykjavik, Iceland (solo)*
Unfamiliar, faculty, staff and graduate
exhibition, mixed media, Mason Gross School of the Arts,
Rutgers, University, New Brunswick, NJ
Half Tree, site-specific collaborative
sound and drawing installation, Virginia Center for Creative
Arts, Sweet Briar, VA |
| 2000 |
Snapshot, Baltimore Museum of Contemporary
Art, Baltimore, MD |
| 1999 |
diffused breath: landscapes thru a plastic lens
PhotoLab Gallery, Berkeley, CA (solo)* |
| 1997 |
Contemporary Vision With the Plastic Camera,
Photo Central Gallery, Hayward, CA |
SCREENINGS
AND PERFORMANCES
|
| 2005 |
white sands project, White Sands Missile
Range, NM
Megabytes, curated by Diane Armitage,
The Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
noche delicious, curated by Sheilah Wilson,
Madrid, NM |
| 2004 |
tideline, VI International Digital Art
Exhibit, video screening, Havana, Cuba |
| 2003 |
herd, Firehouse Gallery, Long Island,
NY walking, The Other Sex, film/media
festival, Prague, CZ |
| 2002 |
fire flies, LA Freewaves: TV or Not TV,
8th biennial media exhibition, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2000 |
Greenhouse Project I & II, semi-abandoned
greenhouse, Highland Park, NJ |
| 1999 |
Apple Blossoms, memorial performance for Dick Higgins,
Whitney Museum of Art, NY, NY
Dead Douglas Fir I & II, site-specific
performance and Super 8 film, San Jose, CA |
AWARDS
|
| 2001,
2002 |
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Virginia
Center for Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA |
| 2001 |
Iceland International Collaboration/Exchange Grant,
U.S. Embassy, Iceland Giza Daniels-Endesha Award,
Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New
Brunswick, NJ, Outstanding Performance in the Visual Arts
|
| 2000,
2001 |
Teaching Assistantship, Rutgers University,
New Brunswick, NJ, Department of Visual Arts |
RESIDENCIES
AND ARTIST LECTURES
|
| 2005 |
Visiting Artist Lecturer, College of
Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM |
| 2003 |
Visiting Artist Lecturer, Shore Institute
of Contemporary Art (SICA), Long Branch, NJ |
| 1998-2002 |
Artist Residency, Virginia Center for
the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA |
| 1998,
1999 |
Artist Residency, Montana Artist Refuge,
Basin, MT |
| 1998 |
Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center,
Johnson, VT |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
|
| 2005 |
Bloc
Busta, Exhibition catalog |
| 2003 |
land
marks, Exhibition catalog |
| 2001 |
Morgunbladid,
Icelandic newspaper, site-specific installation, featured
artist |
| 1998,1999 |
Jazz
Brunch, Montana Artist Refuge, featured artist
|
| 1997 |
Form
and Magic, Contemporary Vision With the Plastic Camera,
Exhibition catalog |
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