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Eleanor King
Eleanor King
Eleanor King is an artist and educator whose artistic practice responds to physical, social, and economic landscapes. Her work is often site-responsive and collaborative, directly engaging with others to perform and inform the work. Her interdisciplinary practice includes video, sound, sculptural installation, painting, and frequently employs found materials. Eleanor’s material research is concerned with environmental impact framed through an ethical and intersectional lens. Her work highlights the existential issues we collectively face today, while always retaining hope through beauty and joy.
Her works have been presented in Canada, the United States and Europe Her works have been presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, Nuit Blanche, Franklin Street Works, Spring/Break Art Show, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, and Diaz Contemporary, among others. She has attended residencies at The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, SOMA Mexico, The Banff Centre and Glenfiddich; and has been supported through the Sobey Art Award, The Canada Council for the Arts, and Arts Nova Scotia. Her work has been featured in Canadian Art, C Magazine and Art in America. She is a Fulbright Fellow, with a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and an MFA from Purchase College, State University of New York. Alongside her studio practice, she currently works at Pratt Institute in the Foundation Department, managing the First-year program and the experimental Foundations Lab which supports exploratory study informed by interdisciplinary engagement and the natural world.
artist profile picture credit: Charlotte Woolf
Her works have been presented in Canada, the United States and Europe Her works have been presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, Nuit Blanche, Franklin Street Works, Spring/Break Art Show, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, and Diaz Contemporary, among others. She has attended residencies at The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, SOMA Mexico, The Banff Centre and Glenfiddich; and has been supported through the Sobey Art Award, The Canada Council for the Arts, and Arts Nova Scotia. Her work has been featured in Canadian Art, C Magazine and Art in America. She is a Fulbright Fellow, with a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and an MFA from Purchase College, State University of New York. Alongside her studio practice, she currently works at Pratt Institute in the Foundation Department, managing the First-year program and the experimental Foundations Lab which supports exploratory study informed by interdisciplinary engagement and the natural world.
artist profile picture credit: Charlotte Woolf