PUBLICATIONS
Art Spiel, Contemporary Art and Culture, 17 June 2024, by Etty Yaniv.
Eileen Neff: The Bigger World in Categories
Toho Journal, Volume 2, Issue 2 (January 2021)
Catamaran Literary Reader, Issue 28 (Spring 2020)
The Philadelphia Inquirer (May 2019)
Title Magazine, (April, 2017)
La Napoule Art Foundation, Interview (May, 2015)
Title Magazine (May, 2015)
The Artblog (Podcast, Interview), 2015 (PDF)
Modern Painters, 2012 (PDF)
Artforum, 2009 (PDF)
Circa, 2009 (PDF)
Art in America, 2009 (PDF)
Artnet, 2007 (PDF)
Artforum, 2002 (PDF)
Art in America, 2002 (PDF)
New York Times, 2001 (PDF)
CV
Eileen's recent solo exhibitions include the Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, and Bruce Silverstein Gallery in New York City. In 2007, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia exhibited a 15-year retrospective of her work, which traveled to The Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin in 2009. Also in 2009, there was a 10-year retrospective at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, North Carolina. Other individual installations include the Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia; the Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Pittsburgh; Artists Space and MOMA PS1, New York.
Eileen is the recipient of many awards, including a John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Photography, the Pew Fellowship in the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts Grant, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant, and the Leeway Foundation Grant. She's been awarded residencies at the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest in Kentucky, the MacDowell Art Colony in New Hampshire, and La Napoule Art Foundation in France. From 1989 to 2002, she wrote reviews for Artforum International, and she continues to write independently. She's taught art students at the University of the Arts from 1980- 2015. She was also a Resident Critic in the MFA Program of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, from 2004 – 2024. Since 2024, she's been a professor at Tyler School of Art, Temple University, working with MFA Painting and Photography students.
EDUCATION
MFA, Painting, Tyler School of Art
BFA, Painting, University of the Arts (formerly Philadelphia College of Art)
BA, English Literature, Temple University