Conceptual artist with a painting practice

Eva Avenue (b. 1984, Amsterdam, NL) was raised in Portugal and Florida, and almost died from a viper bite in Spain. A past subject in a neuroscience creativity study, Eva’s brain has been mapped, scanned, and hung on a lab wall in paint at the UNM MIND Institute. She received her BA from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM in 2011 and attended The Art Students League of New York 2021-2026 in Manhattan. Avenue has had recent solo exhibitions at a TEDx Talk at Culturgest in Lisbon, PT (2025), Windows 12 at Blick, Chelsea, NY (2024) and at Flax Studios in Belfast, UK (2019); Studio@620, St. Petersburg, FL (2016); Oleson Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL (2014). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Landmark Art Space, Chelsea, NY (2024); Embassy of Portugal, Washington, D.C. (2024); Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, NYC (2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022); Jerwood Space, London, UK (2019); Squirrel Haus Arts/Oxheart Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (2019); Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, FL (2018, 2017); Oxheart Gallery/NOoSPHERE ARTS, NYC (2015); Gallery OneTwentyEight, NY, NY (2015); Family Business in Chelsea, NY (2012); A lifelong pianist, she once performed with Yo-Yo Ma on stage as a child, and has received an Awesome Grant. Avenue lives and works in Brooklyn and Manhattan, NY.

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