EDUCATION
2007 M.F.A. Department of Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2003 B.F.A. Department of Visual Arts, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Permanent Collection, Honey Ramka, Brooklyn
2012 Trying To Save it All, AC Institute, Chelsea, NYC
2011 Remains, Bellocq Gallery, Ruston, LA
2010 This Mallet Was My Grandfather’s, Thomas Hunter Project Room, NYC
2009 In Memory Of, Sheppard Fine Arts, Reno, NV
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2017-18 Transcendental Functionalism, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY
2016 Razerbilder, Honey Ramka, Brooklyn, NY
Works On Paper out Of Other Materials, Yashar Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Land After Time, E. Tay Gallery, Tribeca, NYC
2015 Jonald Dudd, City Bird Gallery, NYC
Expansion, AC Exhibition Space, Maspeth, NY
Truck Show 2014, Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Group Drawing Show, English Kills, Brooklyn, NY
Philae Bounced, Vazquez Building, Brooklyn, NY
Stuffscape, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY
Material Disruption, The Art Factory, Paterson, NJ
Truck Show 2014, Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Cocktails and Dreams II, Airplane Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Salonukah, Recession Art, Brooklyn, NY
Novella Gallery Inaugural Benefit, Novella Gallery, NYC
Transmissions, Airplane Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Year Two, Fowler Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Non Solo: A Collaborative Exhibition on Tour (multiple locations), Pieter Arts Space, Los Angeles, CA, The Spare Room Project, San Francisco, CA, Center on Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA, Constellations, Minneapolis, MN, Dixon Place, New York, NY, Gowanus Ballroom, New York, NY, 32 Below at St. Cecilia’s Convent, New York, NY, Flux Factory, New York, NY Thomas Hunter Project Spaces, New York, NY, Bushwick Beta Spaces, Brooklyn Fireproof, New York, NY
Where The Heart Is, Brooklyn Art Space, New York, NY
2010 What is the Where?, The Invisible Dog, New York, NY
The Wassaic Project Festival, Wassaic, NY
Texas National 2010, Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, TX
Axis Gallery 2010 Invitational: Pamela Blotner, Kurt Dyrhaug and Stephen Eakin, Sacramento, CA
International Juried Exhibition, Rogue Space, Chelsea, NYC, Juror: David Cohen
2009 Axis 4th National, Axis Gallery, Sac, CA, Juror: Janet Bishop, SFMoMA curator
Experimental and Media Arts, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2008 Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece
Home and Away: Contemporary Video Art, Jay Jay Gallery, Sacramento, CA
San Joaquin International Film Festival, Stockton, CA
2007 New Work: Stephen Eakin and Jill Vasileff, Reynolds Gallery, Stockton, CA
Open Door 3, Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, Juror: Diane Mullin, curator at the Weisman Art Museum
First Against The Wall, Thesis Exhibition, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
CURATORIAL
2017 Co-curated "Infinity Pool" at SPRING/BREAK Art Fair with Rebecca Morgan,
April 2017
PRESS
2017 "From Beaded Portraiture to Brainwave Drawings, Favorites Greenpoint Open Studios", Seph Rodney Hyperallergic, June 5, 2017 https://hyperallergic.com/383413/from-beaded-portraiture-to-brainwave-drawings-favorites-from-greenpoint-open-studios/
"Over 400 Artists Show Their Works and Spaces at Greenpoint Open Studios" Benjamin Sutton for Hyperallergic May 25, 2017 https://hyperallergic.com/381640/over-400-artist-show-their-works-and-spaces-at-greenpoint-open-studios/
2016 "Land After Time at E.Tay Gallery", Painting Is Dead, March 30, 2016
http://www.paintingisdead.com/land-after-time.html
"This Week’s Events: Avoiding Anything Armory Edition", Art F City, March 1, 2016 http://artfcity.com/2016/03/01/this-weeks-must-see-art-events-avoiding-anything-armory-edition/
"Land After Time at E.Tay Gallery", Artefuse, March 30, 2016
https://artefuse.com/2016/03/30/land-after-time-at-e-tay-gallery-124469
2015 "Featured Artist: Stephen Eakin", Painting Is Dead, May 2015 http://www.paintingisdead.com/stephen-eakin.html
"Stephen Eakin at Honey Ramka", Gallery Travels, By Anne Russinoff, May 2015 https://gallerytravels.blogspot.com/2015/04/stephen-eakin-at-honey-ramka.html
2013 "A View From The Easel" Hyperallergic October 16, 2013
http://hyperallergic.com/87728/a-view-from-the-easel-34/
2010 "What is the Where? Artist: Stephen Eakin", Recession Art, Fall 2010 http://recessionartshows.com/2010/10/what-is-the-where-artist-stephen-eakin/
"Converse Welcome, But Not Required", The Huffington Post, August 19, 2010 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/risa-shoup/converse-not-required_b_684300.html
"Industrial Cathedral of The Arts: The Wassaic Project", ArtSlant, August 17, 2010 http://www.artslant.com/ny/articles/show/18398
2009 "Stephen Eakin: In Memory Of", Media N Journal, Dec 22, 2009 http://median.newmediacaucus.org/winter-2009-v-05-n-03-agriart-companion-planting-for-social-and-biological-systems-stephen-eakin-in-memory-of/
"Analog Interactivity", Visual Communication Quarterly, Fall 2009
PRESENTATIONS AND PANELS
2015 Panel "Labor in the Arts" NYC Creative Salon
2013 Panel, “25 Artists”, Suite 217, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Panel, “What is the Where?” The Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NY
Presentation, “Stephen Eakin: This Mallet Was My Grandfather’s”, Hunter College, NYC
2009 Presentation, “In Memory Of: Stephen Eakin” University of Nevada, Reno, NV
2005 Presentation, “Emerging Digerati”, Fredrick R. Weisman Museum, Minneapolis, MN
AWARDS AND HONORS
2009 Artist in Residence, Kitchen Budapest, Budapest, HU
Ellis Art Award, 4th National Juried Exhibition, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2005 Brown-MacKenzie Arts Scholarship, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN