Eliza Myrie

Eliza Myrie (she/her) is an artist and educator based in Chicago, IL. Myrie's work engages questions of labor, language, and site through personal histories, race, and class. Primarily a sculptor and printmaker, dimension, volume, and an examination of how representation and subjectivity are realized or ignored via physical and conceptual processes are central to her work.

Myrie received her MFA from Northwestern University and was a participant at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and The Whitney Independent Study Program. She has received awards from the Illinois Arts Council, Artadia, and The Propellor Fund. She has been a resident at Bemis Center, Yaddo, MacDowell, and Arts + Public Life at The University of Chicago. Myrie co-founded the Black Artists Retreat [B.A.R.] and is a Co-Executive Director at Black Lunch Table. She has contributed to publications with Sming Sming Books and MIT Press. Her exhibitions include the Kennedy Museum of Art; The Arts Club of Chicago; Gallery 400; Vox Populi; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; New Museum of Contemporary Art.