Temple University

Eileen Neff has been working with photo-based images and photo/installations since 1980. Her 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 that 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 installation sites 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.

Neff’s been the recipient of many awards, including a John S. Guggenheim 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. Neff has had 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 continues to write independently. Neff is also a Resident Critic in the MFA Program of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

MFA, Painting, Tyler School of Art and Architecture

BFA, Painting, University of the Arts (formerly Philadelphia College of Art)

BA, English Literature, Temple University

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