Solo Exhibitions
2020 Now, Not Forever, Laurel Cottage, Norfolk, CT
The Landing Field, Zimbabwe Cultural Center of Detroit, MI
An Extended Moment of Transition, The Muted Horn/H Space, Cleveland, OH
2019 Absolute Truth, Simone DeSousa Gallery, Detroit, MI
2015 The Wall, Kit and Ace, Detroit, MI
2014 Here/Not Here, Whitdel Gallery, Detroit, MI
2010 Making Faces, S.P.A.C.E. Gallery, Burlington VT
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Ari, Public Pool, Hamtramck, MI
Out of the Air, White Brick Gallery, Ferndale, MI
2019 We Live Here, 1301 Broadway, Detroit, MI
2018 Edition 18, Simone DeSousa Gallery, Detroit, MI
Attachment to Function, 1301 Broadway, Detroit, MI
Art @ the Max IV, Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall, Detroit MI
Matter, Matter, Object, Wall, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
A Line of Beauty, Cranbrook House, Bloomfield Hills, MI
The Collective Experiment, The Carr Center, Detroit MI
2017 Have + Hold, Wasserman Projects, Detroit, M
Bent, But Unbroken, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI
Nasty Women, Binders of Them, Cave Gallery, Detroit, MI
2016 You Are Here, The Carr Center, Detroit, MI
88th Annual Regional Exhibition, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
1966: Remixed, Crooked Tree Art Center, Traverse City, MI
Never Not Broken, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
2015 Cranbrook Academy of Art Graduate Degree Exhibition, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Performative Materials, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Birmingham, MI
Experiencing Perspectives, Mercedes Benz Financial Services, Farmington Hills, MI
Coffee and Tea (Part II), Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
2014 Pyrocognitions, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Birmingham, MI
Experiencing Perspectives, Mercedes Benz Financial Services, Farmington Hills, MI
2013 Emergence-13, Ford Gallery, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
En Masse, Sheila & Richard Riggs and Leidy Galleries, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2012 Cary Sculpture Park, Salem Art Works, Salem, VT
2011 The Waskowmium Collection, Burlington, VT
Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN
2010 Represent, S.P.A.C.E. Gallery, Burlington VT
Book Juice, Green Door Gallery, Burlington, VT
2009 Exchange, Gladstone Regional Art Gallery, Gladstone, Australia
2008 Feedback Junkie, The Northfield Arts Guild, Northfield, MN
From Paper and Stones, Boliou Gallery, Northfield, MN
Residencies
2021 Mass MoCA Assets for Artists residency, North Adams, MA
2020 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2019 Monson Arts, Monson, ME
Drop Forge and Tool, Hudson, NY — collaborative residency with Manal Shoukair
2018 Zimbabwe Cultural Center of Detroit Research Fellowship, Mutare, Zimbabwe
The Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GA
One to One, Founder/Director, collaborative residency
2017 Teton ArtLab, Jackson, WY
2011 Sculpture Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2010 Vermont Artist Week Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Awards and Fellowships
2020 Louise Bourgeois Award, Corporation of Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2016 88th Annual Regional Exhibition Second Place, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
2014 Cranbrook Academy of Art and Pilchuck Glass School Partner Award Scholarship
2012 Emerging Artist Fellowship, Salem Art Works, Salem, NY
2011 Intern Artist Fellowship, Franconia Sculpture Park, MN
2007 Toni Award in the Arts Finalist, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
2005 Jepson Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievment in Studio Art, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
Teaching and Artist Lectures
2019- Adjunct Faculty in Fine Arts, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2019 Mabhasikiti ne Hurukuro (Baskets with Tales) Workshop facilitator with Masimba Hwati, Zimbabwe Cultural Center of Detroit, MI
2018 “Material and Meaning” National Gallery School of Visual Art and Design, Harare, Zimbabwe
“Creative Process and Professional Practice” Carleton College, Northfield, MN
“Things Are More Than One Thing” Nora Iasigi Bullitt Memorial Lecture, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
“Non-Linear Narrative and the Language of Materials” TALK Series, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2016 Visiting Artist, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Selected Bibliography
2020 “Fruit Stickers” Sophie Eisner, published in The Plague Review 4, October, Ryan Standfest, ed., (Rotland Press, Detroit) http://rotlandpress.com/plague-review
“Familiar and Ever So Slightly Askew,” Stephen Melville, Norfolk Now, September.
2019 “AM,” Sophie Eisner, Detroit Sequential Vol.1 No. 2, Ryan Standfest, ed., (Detroit Novelty Press, Rotland Press)
2018 “Sophie Eisner” Dennis Alan Nawrocki, Steve Panton, and Matthew Piper, eds., Essay’d 3: 30 Detroit Artists
(Wayne State University Press)
2017 “Butter Projects @ Wasserman Projects,” Clara DeGalan, Detroit Art Review, Aug. 11
“Visiting Sculptors Host Minishows at Artlab,” E. Dahlby, Jackson Hole News and Guide, April 12
Installment #89, Allegra Rosenbaum, Essay’d, December 29, http://essayd.org/?p=2055
2016 “‘You Are Here’ Exhibit Rocks Carr Center,” M. H. Hodges, Detroit News, Nov. 21
2015 Experiencing Perspectives catalogue, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, Farmington Hills, MI
Education
2015 Master of Fine Art, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2013 Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Fine Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2007 Bachelor of Art, Magna Cum Laude, Carleton College, Northfield, MN