| Selected Exhibitions & Screenings | |
| 2022 | The Wellbeing Summit 2022, Visualizing the Wonders of the Brain, in collaboration with Dr. Richard J. Davidson, Bilbao, Spain |
| 2021 | Another Hole in the Head Film Festival, San Francisco, CA Anthology Film Archives, New Filmmakers NY, Dec 15, New York, NY Ojas Art, Reciprocation: American Fulbright Artists and India Connections, in celebration of the 70th Anniversary of US–India Educational Foundation, Delhi, India Fulbright 75 Art Show, coinciding with Fulbright at 75: Celebrating a Legacy of Global Friendships, Fulbright Association Virtual 44th Annual Conference Anthology Film Archives, NewFilmmakers NY, Oct 5, New York, NY Cannes Short Film Festival, Aug 16-30, Cannes, France Ely Center of Contemporary Art, Eye Spy, a featured fu·tur·olo·gy project, New Haven, CT Louisiana Art & Science Museum, Experimental Light: Alyce Simon & Eva Lee, Baton Rouge, LA |
| 2018 | XConf North America, Dual Brains live performance, Thoughtworks Conference for technologists, held at 3 Legged Dog, New York, NY Harvestworks/Thoughtworks Arts, Dual Brains performance, part of Thoughtworks Stranger Than Life Hacks special exhibition at the 7th Annual SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY |
| 2017 | 55th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI |
| 2016 | Art-A-Hack, Dual Brains, EEG data-driven real-time performance, Art-A-Hack Final Presentations, New York, NY |
| 2015 | Louisiana Art & Science Museum, Sun Light/Star Light: Contemplations on the Solar Orb, Baton Rouge, LA Artsfest Film Festival, Harrisburg, PA Parse Gallery, Presentism, international film festival curated by Ruth Dusseault. Gallery at Whitney Center, On the Spiritual in Art, presented by The Arts Council of Greater New Haven, Hamden, CT |
| 2014 | Whitespace Gallery, Presentism, Atlanta, GA Spirit Enlightened Film Festival, www.cultureunplugged.com |
| 2013 | Chartier, Eva Lee, Derby, CT (solo) Streaming Festival, The Hague, Netherlands Boonika, part of Streaming Festival 8th Edition, Zagreb, Croatia The Isaac Delgado Fine Arts Gallery, Pixelpops, New Orleans, LA MashRome Film Festival, Rome, Italy Athens Slingshot, new showcase for music, innovative art and technology in Athens, GA Louisiana Art & Science Museum, LASM: 50 Years of Collecting, Baton Rouge, LA |
| 2012 | Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery, It’s Your Nature, Manchester Community College Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Aldrich Undercover, CT Hartford New Music Festival, What If 60x60x60, Charter Oak Cutural Center, Hartford, CT |
| 2011 | Streaming Festival, annual international festival, The Hague, The Netherlands Big Screen Project, innovative venue for video, film, live and interactive content in a public plaza, New York, NY Artsfest Film Festival, Harrisburg, PA Lights On Tampa 2011, Lux Flux, an animation commissioned by Tampa Public Art Program and Friends of Tampa Public Art premiered on Portals Feb 19, Tampa, FL Adelaide Fringe Festival, Digital09: Mysteries in Science, Adelaide, Australia |
| 2010 | The Gallery at Haskins Laboratories, Mind Sets, New Haven, CT. Artists and scientists in a collaborative initiative presented by The Arts Council of Greater New Haven Artsfest Film Festival, Harrisburg, PA The Connecticut Commission on Culture Gallery, Grey Area, Hartford, CT Central Booking Gallery II, Anatomical/Microbial/Microcosms, Brooklyn, NY Central Booking Gallery II, Astronomy: The Celestial, Brooklyn, NY Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media, What If? 60 x 60 x 60, premiere screening at New Media Curious Festival, Boston, MA |
| 2009 | Louisiana Art & Science Museum, Starry Messenger: Galileo’s Vision in the 21st Century, Baton Rouge, LA New York Hall of Science, Digital 09: Mysteries in Science, presented by ASCI.org, New York, NY Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra, The Planets, multimedia performance with video projection, CT Gallery of Contemporary Art, The Elements: Earth, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT Kohler Arts Center, All Over the Map, Sheboygan, WI |
| 2008 | DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, 2008 DeCordova Annual Exhibition, Lincoln, MA Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Aldrich Undercover, CT Kenise Barnes Fine Art, I am That, Larchmont, NY BBC Big Screen Liverpool, Sizemology, Liverpool, England |
| 2007 | Jail Gallery, Pie in the Face, curated by Keith Sklar, Los Angeles, CA Wave Hill, Ornamental Instincts, curated by Wennie Huang, Bronx, NY The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum, Connecticut Contemporary, Hartford, CT Sharon Arts Center, Viewing MacDowell: Works by Recent MacDowell Colony Artists, curated by Rachel Garceau, Peterborough, NH |
| 2006 | Westport Arts Center, Global, curated by Richard Klein, Westport, CT Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Aldrich Undercover, CT Gallery of Contemporary Art, The Local Line, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT Wave Hill, Animated Shorts: Nature-Related Animations, Bronx, NY OH+T Gallery, Katherine Jackson, Pamela Harris, Eva Lee, William Weiss: New Works on Paper, Boston, MA |
| 2005 | Real Art Ways, Eva Lee: New Drawings & Digital Animations, Hartford, CT (solo) Center for Curatorial Studies, This is not an Archive, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Westby Gallery, Drawing Networks: Abstraction and the Scientific, curated by Lisa Hatchadoorian, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ Smack Mellon Gallery, Between Interconnectedness, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2004 | Wave Hill, Pondering the Marvelous, Bronx, NY Kerrigan Campbell Art + Projects, Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions, curated by Lisa Hatchadoorian, New York, NY Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, The Drawn Page, CT Yale University School of Art Gallery, Shifting Affinities, curated by Paul Clabby, New Haven, CT P.S.122 Gallery, Eva Lee, New York, NY Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Gallery, In the Face of Others, by NURTUREart, New York, NY |
| 2003 | Connecticut Commission on the Arts Gallery, Fellowship Exhibition, Hartford, CT Heckscher Museum of Art, Genetic Expressions: Art After DNA, curated by Lynn Gamwell and Elizabeth Meryman, Huntington, LI |
| 2002 | Jan Cicero Gallery, The Project Room, Chicago, IL (solo) Asian American Arts Center, 12th Annual Exhibition: Contrary Equilibriums, juried by Mihee Ahn, Timothy Liu, Margo Machida, Tricia Paik, and Lydia Yee, New York, NY Ise Cultural Foundation Gallery, The Drawing Room, New York, NY Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, National Exhibition of American Art, juried by Robert Storr, Chautauqua, NY Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery, Eva Lee, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT A.I.R. Gallery, Postcards, New York, NY Exit Art, Reactions, New York, NY |
| 2001 | Connecticut Commission on the Arts Gallery, Words of Vision/Visions of Words,Hartford, CT Bronx Museum of the Arts, AIM 21, Bronx, NY Katonah Museum of Art, Breaking the Rules, juried by Eugenie Tsai, Katonah, NY Castle Gallery, Science and Science Fiction, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY |
| 2000 | The Times Square Gallery, Meditations on Matrices, Hunter College, New York, NY (solo) The Stamford Museum & Nature Center Art-X Gallery, Ancestral Mnemonics, Stamford, CT (solo) University of Connecticut Gallery, The Best of Art-X, Stamford, CT |
| Awards & Honors | |
| 2019 | Hemera Foundation, Contemplative Fellowship, Garrison Institute retreat as an artist, Garrison, NY |
| 2017 | Hemera Foundation, Tending Space Fellowship, Garrison Institute retreat as an artist, Garrison, NY |
| 2016 | Art-A-Hack, Artists and Technologist Workshop. Artists, Programmers, Designers, Engineers collaborate to create art, New York, NY |
| 2014 | Art-A-Hack, Artists and Technologist Workshop, New York, NY Djerassi, Fellowship, Scientific Delirium Madness Residency Program alternate, Woodside, CA |
| 2013 | Fulbright, Research Fellowship, to research murals in ancient Indo-Tibetan monasteries of Indian Himalayas |
| 2010 | Asian Cultural Council, Artist Fellowship, to research Tibetan art and meditative practices, attend Mind & Life conference, and make new work in India Connecticut Commission on Culture, Artist Fellowship in New Media, Hartford, CT |
| 2009 | Mind & Life Summer Research Institute, Research Fellow, Garrison, NY Connecticut Commission on Culture, Finalist Public Art Project, Bridgeport, CT |
| 2008 | MacDowell, Fellowship, Peterborough, NH |
| 2007 | Mind & Life Summer Research Institute, Garrison, NY |
| 2006 | MacDowell, Fellowship, Peterborough, NH Best Group Show in a Commercial Gallery, Katherine Jackson, Pamela Harris, Eva Lee, William Weiss: New Works on Paper, OH+T Gallery, Boston, MA. Second Place, awarded by Association of Art Critics USA, New England Chapter. New Haven Percent for Art, Finalist Public Art Project, New Haven, CT |
| 2005 | Lower East Side Printshop, Special Editions Fellowship Alternate, New York, NH |
| 2004 | MacDowell, Fellowship, Peterborough, NH |
| 2003 | Bridgeport Percent for Art, Finalist Public Art Project, Bridgeport, CT |
| 2002 | Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Artist Fellowship, Hartford, CT New Haven Percent for Art, Finalist Public Art Project, New Haven, CT |
| 2000 | Bronx Museum of the Arts, Artist-in-the-Marketplace Program, Bronx, NY |
| 1999 | Hunter College, William Graf Travel Grant, New York, NY Hunter College, Teaching Fellowship, New York, NY |
| 1989 | Empire Studio Program, Fellowship, Empire State College, New York, NY |
| Selected Bibliography | |
| 2021 | New Haven Independent, ECOCA Show Sees a Future in the Future, Brian Slattery, July 22 |
| 2018 | Autodesk Redshift, 2 Heads–and a Brain Computer Interface–Are Making Waves in the Art World, May 22 SciArt Center, Eva Lee, interview for Colloquium, Feb 2018 Immerse, How Art Programs Drive Innovation at ThoughtWorks, Andrew McWilliams, Jun 27 |
| 2017 | Drawing Your Own Path, Eva Lee, podcast interview by John F. Simon, Jr., May 22 The Redding Pilot, Buddhist Monastery Will Host Talk on Sacred Mandala Creation, Jan 10 |
| 2016 | WICN 90.5FM, Inquiry: Eva Lee: Dual Brains, radio interview by Mark Lynch, Nov 10 |
| 2015 | Sun Light/Star Light: Contemplations on the Solar Orb, Louisiana Art & Science Museum (catalogue) The Advocate, Human’s Link with the Sun Examined in Louisiana Art & Science Museum Exhibit, Oct 12 New Haven Independent, Spiritual Connections Made Through Art, David Sepulveda, Jan 27 |
| 2014 | The Ridgefield Press, Fulbright Artist Talks Mandalas, Sept 11 Art-A-Hack, Buddhism, Meditation, and the Mind, June-July MacDowell Colony Newsletter, MacDowell Downtown, Summer 2014 Monadnock Ledger, Eva Lee Brings Abstract Animations, Documentary to MacDowell Downtown, Apr 2 MacDowell Colony, Eva Lee Brings Abstract Films, Documentary to Peterborough, Apr 2014 |
| 2013 | ARTiculAction, Eva Lee, Mar 2013 |
| 2011 | Leaders in Software and Art, Eva Lee at the Big Screen Plaza, July 5 St. Petersburg Times, Reflecting on the Artists, Susan Thurston, Feb 17 Tampa BayTimes, Meet the Visionaries, Susan Thurston, Feb 18 Tampa Bay Metro, Light Up the Night, Metro Life Media, Inc., Feb/Mar |
| 2010 | Mindsets: Artists & Scientists Collaborate, The Arts Council of Greater New Haven (catalogue) Artspiral.blogspot.com, All in My Mind: Panel Talk with Artists and Neuoroscientists, Asian American Arts Centre Arts Paper, Research Re-imagined, David A. Brensilver, Nov 2010 Central Booking Magazine, Astronomy: The Celestial, Maddy Rosenberg, Mar 2010, Issue 1 |
| 2009 | Starry Messenger: Galileo’s Vision in 21st Century Art, Louisiana Art & Science Museum (catalogue) LASM Quarterly, Starry Messenger: Galileo’s Vision in the 21st Century, Sept/Oct/Nov 2009 The Advocate, Starry Messenger: LASM Art Exhibit Celebrates Galileo’s Vision, Robin Miller, Sept 20 The News Times, Eye on the Sky, Susan Tuz, Mar 27 Connecticut Post, Down to ‘Earth‘, Phyllis A. S. Boros, Jan 18 Connecticut Art Scene, Earthlings at Sacred Heart, Hank Hoffman, Feb 16 |
| 2008 | WICN 90.5FM, Inquiry: Art and Neuroimaging: Eva Lee and Dr. Jim Coan, radio interview by Mark Lynch Art New England, The 2008 DeCordova Annual Exhibition, June/July The Boston Globe, The View from Here, Cate McQuaid, May 23 The 2008 DeCordova Annual Exhibition, The DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park (catalogue) Lincoln Journal, DeCordova Exhibit Charts Artistic Landscape, Ben Aaronson, May 22 The Somerville Journal, DeCordova Pushes Artistic Edge with New Exhibit, Chris Bergeron, May 21 Daily News Tribune, Expect the Unexpected at Annual DeCordova Show, Chris Bergeron, May 18 Wave Hill News, Ornamental Instincts, Winter 2008 |
| 2007 | The Lincoln Journal, DeCordova Announces Artists for 2008 Annual Exhibition, Dec 11 The New York Times, A Contemporary Showcase at Wadsworth Athenaeum, Benjamin Genocchio, June 3 Connecticut Contemporary, Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art (catalogue) New England Journal of Aesthetic Research, New England Art Critics Awards, March 2 Post Road, Current Abstraction, Margaret Roleke, pp. 65-80 |
| 2006 | Global, Westport Arts Center, Nov 2006 (catalogue) The Ridgefield Press, Artist Eva Lee’s Jewel Rotates at Art Center, Nov 2 Art New England, Local Lines, Lois Goglia, Aug/Sept 2006 New Haven Advocate, Hip Threads, Zach Hughes, June 1 The New York Times, Art Studies Without the Homework, Benjamin Genocchio, May 21 New Haven Register, Hanging by a Thread, Donna Doherty, May 21 The Ridgefield Press, Works by Lee at Black Rock, Apr 27 The Boston Globe, New Works on Paper, Cate McQuaid, Feb 2006 |
| 2005 | DCC in the News, About Light Mixes Media at DCC, Dutchess Community College, Nov 29 The Hartford Advocate, Into the Woods, Aug 18 The Poughkeepsie Journal, Paradigm Explores Artistic Flow, Michelle J. Lee, Oct 14 The New York Times, Eva Lee: New Drawings & Animations, Grace Glueck, July 29 Art New England, Top Drawer: An Exhibition of Contemporary Drawing, Lois Goglia, April/May 2005 The Ridgefield Press, Eva Lee Work in Hartford, June 16 New York Press, Between Interconnectedness, Julia Morton, Jan 5-11 The Whit, Science and Art Collide in Westby, Tom Caiazza, Jan 27 |
| 2004 | The New York Times, Spare Times, Nov 5 The New York Times, You and Them!, Oct 31 The Riverdale Press, Natural Notions: Two New Exhibits at Wave Hill Explore the Wonders of Nature, Sept 23 Pondering the Marvelous, Wave Hill, Sept 2004 The Ridgefield Press, Eva Lee’s Art at Wave Hill, Sept 23 The New Haven Register, Belated Praise for the Shows that Got Away, Judy Birke, July 4 The Advocate, New Gallery Opens with a ‘Blast!’ L.P. Streitfeld, June 6 The MacDowell Colony Newsletter, In Their Own Words, Vol. 33, No. 1, Summer, 2004 The Ridgefield Press, Special Edition accompanying The Drawn Page exhibition at The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, June 13 – Sept 1 |
| 2003 | The Ridgefield Press, The Drawn Page, Week Three, Eva Lee, Oct 16 The Ridgefield Press, Lee Art in Hartford, Aug 21 Natural History, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, Feb 2003 |
| 2002 | The New York Times, Where Witty Meets Gritty, Holland Cotter, Nov 15 Contrary Equilibriums, Between Contrary Equilibriums, Tricia Paik, The Asian American Arts Center (catalogue) Lower Manhattan, Artists Explore Asian Culture in Chinatown Exhibit, Nov 14 |
| 2001 | The New York Times, Exploring the Gamut of Contemporary Art, D. Dominick Lombardy, June 17 AIM 21, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, July 12 – Oct 14, 2001 (catalogue) The Sciences, The New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY, May/June 2001 Science & Science Fiction, Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY, Feb 2001 |
| 2000 | Winter XX, Hunter College, New York, NY, Dec 2000 (catalogue) The Newtown Bee, Opening Reception for Lee at Thirteen, Aug 30 The Ridgefield Press, Ancestral Mnemonics, May 11 The Sciences, The New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY, Jan/Feb 2000 |
| Artist Talks & Workshops | |
| 2025 | College Art Association 113th Annual Conference, Day of Panels, Making Trouble: Women, Art & Science, Artist Talk, presented by The Feminist Art Project | Women’s Caucus for Art, New York, NY View here |
| 2022 | Fairfield University, Through a Different Lens: Innovation Lab Lecture Series, Artist Talk, Fairfield, CT View here |
| 2021 | Louisiana Art & Science Museum, Artist Talk, hybrid live and virtual zoom event, Baton Rouge, LA View here |
| 2020 | New York Institute of Technology, Visiting Artist Talk, New York, NY |
| 2019 | New York Institute of Technology, Visiting Scholar, New York, NY New York Institute of Technology, Visiting Artist Talk, New York, NY |
| 2018 | XConf North America, Dual Brains, Speaker and Art Performance, Thoughtworks tech industry conference, New York, NY Chuang Yen Monastery, Buddhist Association of the U.S., Dual Brains: Dialogues on the Future of Technology, Artist Talk, Carmel, NY New York Institute of Technology, Visiting Artist Talk, New York, NY |
| 2017 | 55th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Off the Screen! Film Art Forum, Ann Arbor, MI Wooster School, Visiting Artist Talk, Danbury, CT DNKL Tibetan Buddhist Center for Universal Peace, Fulbright Artist Talk, Redding, CT |
| 2015 | University of Connecticut School of Fine Arts, Visiting Artist Talk, Storrs, CT DNKL Tibetan Buddhist Center for Universal Peace, Fulbright Artist Talk, Redding, CT Gallery at Whitney Center, Artist Talk, On the Spiritual in Art, presented by The Arts Council of Greater New Haven, Hamden, CT |
| 2014 | MacDowell, MacDowell Downtown, artist presentation and screening, Peterborough, NH Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, In Search of Mandalas, Fulbright Artist Talk, New York, NY Chuang Yen Monastery, Buddhist Association of the U.S., In Search of Mandalas, Fulbright Artist Talk, Carmel, NY |
| 2013 | The New Museum Ideas City Festival, Space Time: Presence, visual presentations by artists Christine Chow, Mikyung Kim, Eva Lee, and Haeri Yoo, followed by panel discussion moderated by Asian American Arts Centre Director Robert Lee |
| 2011 | Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Pumpkin Faces, Visiting Artist, master class in video art for high school students, Ridgefield, CT |
| 2010 | Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, New World Kids, Visiting Artist, CT Central Booking, All in My Mind, panel discussion with neuroscientists Dr. Joseph Ledoux and Dr. Andre Fenton, artists Nene Humphrey, Claire Watkins, Brooklyn, NY Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Technology and Artmaking, panel talk with Steven Sacks and George Fifield, CT |
| 2009 | Louisiana Art & Science Museum, Panel Talk, Celestial Matters: A Talk with the Artists of Starry Messenger, Baton Rouge, LA Gallery of Contemporary Art, Artist Talk, Art Meets Neuroscience, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT |
| 2008 | DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Artist Talk, Art Meets Neuroscience, Lincoln, MA Bard College, Panel Discussion, Aesthetics and Function of Visualization in Art and Science, Annandale-on Hudson, NY Bard College, Art Meets Neuroscience, Colloquium Speaker, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
| 2007 | Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, Artist Talk, Art Meets Neuroscience, Hartford, CT |
| 2006 | Westport Art Center, Artist Talk, Westport, CT Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Roundtable Discussion, Ridgefld, CT |
| 2005 | Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Visiting Artist, Ridgefld, CT Bard College, Visiting Instructor, Foundations: Art & Science, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
| 2004 | Bard College, Visiting Artist, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Wave Hill, Artist Talk, Bronx, NY Wave Hill, Family Art Project Workshop, Bronx, NY |
| 2003 | Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Art Lab Visiting Artist, Ridgefld, CT Bard College, Visiting Artist, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
| 2002 | Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Art Daze Visiting Artist, Ridgefld, CT Asian American Arts Centre, Artist Talk, New York, NY Hunter College, Teaching Assistant, New York, NY Manchester Community College, Artist Talk, Manchester, CT |
| Education | |
| 2001 | MFA, Hunter College, New York, NY |
| 1987 | BA, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
| 1986 | City of London Polytechnic, London, England |