Katelyn Eichwald American, b. 1987

View works. Katelyn Eichwald, $2, 2022, Oil on linen, 10.2 x 15.2 cm
Katelyn Eichwald, $2, 2022, Oil on linen, 10.2 x 15.2 cm
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b. 1987 Chicago, US. Lives and works in Chicago, US.
 
Katelyn Eichwald paints with oil on rough canvas and linen, scrubbing into the woven surface like she's trying to remove a stain. Instead, she's left with the opposite - an almost archeological image sunk deep into the fiber of the painting. Maybe it's a drink in a man's hand, or a tangled rope, or the house at the end of the street with no lights on. It could be a French braid or a castle. Sometimes, figures meet and part ways in the distance, exchanging words we can't hear. Other times we're alone with a paring knife and a lit cigarette. Eichwald often uses screenshots from TV and film to find her subjects; as a result, the work is both intimate and withholding, trapped in a moment and hovering outside of time, like a stopped watch on your own wrist.
 

Katelyn Eichwald lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.  Eichwald completed her BFA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2009 and received her MFA from California College of the Arts, San Francisco in 2012.  Solo exhibitions include Talisman, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY (2024); Castles, Galerie Sultana, Paris and Arles, France (2022); Never, Fortnight Institute, New York, US (2021) and Good Boy, Fortnight Institute, New York, US (2018). 

 

Group exhibitions include Pluck, Pangée | Montreal, Canada (2024); This Floating Hour, Galerie Mathilde le Coz & Galerie Elsa Meunier, Paris, France (2024); Bump in the Night, Night Cafe Gallery, London, UK (2024); Three Acts, Huxley-Parlour, London, UK (2023); L'heure du conte, Projet Pangée, Montreal, Canada (2023); Cut, Katelyn Eichwald and TJ Rinoski, Cob Gallery, London, UK (2022); About Painting, Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Rome, Italy (2022); Portals: Katelyn Eichwald, Dominique Knowles, Reina Sugihara, Elsa Site, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan (2022); Stress Tested, co curated by Emma cc Cook, Public Gallery, London (2021); David Byrd: In Resonance, Flesicher/ Ollman, Philadelphia, US (2021-2022); Nine Lives, Fortnight Institute, New York, US (2021); Library arrangement, Reading Room, Melbourne, Australia; Face in the Wind, Gracie DeVito, Katelyn Eichwald, Hugo Montoya, Et al., San Fransisco, US (2021); Hunters in the Snow, 303 Gallery, New York, US (2021); You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory, VSOP Projects, Greenport, New York, US (2019); Karma Book Market, Fortnight Institute, New York City, US (2017).

 

EDUCATION
2012 MFA California College of the Arts, San Francisco 

2009 BFA University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2024 Talisman, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY

2022 Castles, Galerie Sultana, Paris and Arles, France 

2021 Never, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY
2018 Good Boy, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Pluck | Pangée | Montreal, Canada

2024 This Floating Hour, Galerie Mathilde le Coz & Galerie Elsa Meunier, Paris, France

2024 Bump in the Night, Night Cafe Gallery, London, UK

2023 Entre chien et loup, Dans les yeux d’Elsa Gallery & Gallery Mathilde le Coz, Paris, France

2023 Three Acts, Huxley-Parlour, London, UK

2023 L'heure du conte, Projet Pangée, Montreal, Canada

2022 Cut, Katelyn Eichwald and T.J. Rinoski, Cob Gallery, London, UK
2022 About Painting, Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Rome, Italy
2022 Portals, Katelyn Eichwald, Dominique Knowles, Reina Sugihara, Elza Sile, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
2021 Stress Tested, Co-curated by Emma cc Cook, Public Gallery, London, UK 

2021-22 David Byrd: In Resonance, Fleisher/Ollman, Philadelphia, PA
2021 Nine Lives, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY
2021 Library Arrangement, ReadingRoom, Melbourne, Australia
2021 Face in the Wind, Gracie DeVito, Katelyn Eichwald, Hugo Montoya, Et al., SF, US 

2021 Hunters in the Snow, 303 Gallery, NY, US 

2019 You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory, VSOP Projects, Greenport, NY, US 

2018 Butterfly’s Nautilus, Celaya Brothers Gallery & Et. al., Mexico City
2017 Karma Book Market, Fortnight Institute, New York City, NY, US
2017 Practical Magic, ChickenCoopContemporary, Portland, OR, US 

2017 DomesticTranquility, ZeroZeroLA, Los Angeles, CA 

2016 Mother Popcorn, Big Medium, Austin, TX 

2016 Katelyn Eichwald & Peter Shear, AlterSpace, San Francisco, CA, US 

2012 MFA Exhibition, California College of theArts, San Francisco, CA, US 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021 Cut: Katelyn Eichwald and T.J Rinoski, published by Cob Gallery, London

2021 Elizabeth Buhe, The Brooklyn Rail, October
2021 Never artist’s book published by Fortnight Institute, US
2018 Good Boy artist’s book published by Fortnight Institute, US
2018 7 Artists to Watch, Artspace.com, July
2016 Untitled Painting, Bookforum print edition, September