About Eliana Pérez
Curriculum Vitae
Eliana Perez was born in Cali, Colombia. She studied Fine Arts and Printmaking at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá, Colombia, and Bookmaking at Cooper Union, in New York City. She immigrated to the United States in the 1990s and currently lives and works in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York City. She is an associate artist of Booklyn Inc., a non-profit that promotes artist books as art and research materials for education, community engagement, and activism with a commitment to environmental and social justice.
Eliana’s work is found in the libraries of:
United States Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Tufts University, Medford, MA
Smith College, Northampton, MA
University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Yale University Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, New Haven, CT
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA
Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Chapman University, Orange, CA
University of California, Irvine, CA
The Saxon State and University Library, Dresden, Germany
Anderson Special Collections Library, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Tufts University, Medford, MA.
Davis & Louise Reimer Collection
Exhibitions include:
“Collective Roadmap” Center for the Book Arts, NYC 2022 ; “Boundless” Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA 2022; “Open Sesame” Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA 2019; “My Favorite Book” Booklyn, Brooklyn, NY 2021; “Healing & Community” Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, NY, NY 2020; “Working Space” Booklyn, Brooklyn, NY 2018; “Migration Narratives” Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY 2014; “Diamond Leaves” Houston Printing Museum, Houston, TX 2014; “Hunted” Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York, NY 2014, “Diamond Leaves” Beijing, China 2013, "Annual Benefit Exhibition" Dieu Donne Gallery, New York, NY 2011; "Cosas" Galería El Nogal, Bogotá, Colombia 2010; "La Conexión" Gaga Arts Center, Garnerville, NY 2010; "We-Are-Familia's Genogram" Pop-up Gallery, New York, NY 2010; "III Salón de Ilustración" Galería El Nogal, Bogotá, Colombia 2010; "We Are Familia" Fountain Art Fair, Miami & New York 2009/2010; "Annual Benefit Exhibition" Dieu Donne Gallery, New York, N.Y. 2009; "Brewing" Friday Cottage, Columbia, SC 2009; "Write Now!" Kligspor Museum, Offenbach, Germany 2009 "Contemporary Prints: 1999-2009" Today Art Gallery, Beijing, China 2009; “Hecho a Mano" (El Oficio en el Arte) Galería Casas Riegner, Bogotá, Colombia 2008; “Just Words” Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2007; “Accumulations” Emily Murphy Art, Madrid, Spain 2007; "Found in Translation" Center for Book Arts, NYC & San Francisco, CA 2006; “Inventory” Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia 2004; "Sólo Dibujo" Museo Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia 2004; “What the Book” Flux Factory, New York, NY 2004; "Sketchy" Parsons School of Design, New York, NY 2003; “Mannequin” Queensborough CC, New York, NY 1997; “Invitación Al Agua” Galería Arte 19, Bogotá, Colombia 1995.
Eliana’s drawings have been published in The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, Poetry Magazine and have been selected for publication in the American Illustration anthologies.