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
2023 Build on This Gesture, Flaten Art Museum, Northfield, MN
The Nature of Intimacy Performance at Flaten Art Museum, Northfield, MN
2022 Homebody, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
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
Awards
2022 Artist Grant, Flaten Art Museum, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
Fine Arts Faculty Travel Grant, St. Olaf College Dean’s Fund, Northfield MN
Professional Development Grant, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
2020 Louise Bourgeois Award, Corporation of Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2018 Zimbabwe Cultural Center of Detroit Research Fellowship, Mutare, Zimbabwe
2016 88th Annual Regional Exhibition 2nd Place, Muskegon Museum of Art, MI
Juror’s Award 1st Place, Never Not Broken, Ann Arbor Art Center, MI
2014 Cranbrook Academy of Art and Pilchuck Glass School Partner 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 Achievement in Studio Art, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
Residencies
2023 Walkaway House, North Adams, MA
2022 Walkaway House, North Adams, MA
2021 Mass MoCA Assets for Artists, North Adams, MA
2020 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
Popps Packing, Hamtramck, MI
2019 Monson Arts, Monson, ME
Drop Forge and Tool, Hudson, NY
2018 Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GA
One to One, Founder/Director, collaborative residency
2017 Teton ArtLab, Jackson, WY
2011 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2010 Vermont Artist Week Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT\
Teaching and Lectures
2021-23 Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
2022 External Reviewer for Studio Art Major Junior Year Exhibition, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
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 Publications
2023 “Sophie Eisner Welds the Scars of Her Past” Sarah Rose Sharp, Hyperallergic, May 4.
https://hyperallergic.com/819133/sophie-eisner-welds-the-scars-of-her-past/
“Between the Womb and the Waiting Room: The Intimacy of Non-Spaces in the Works of Sophie W. Eisner” Zoe
Cinel, Build on This Gesture Exhibition Catalog, produced by The Flaten Art Museum.
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