Eleanor Oakes (biography)

Solo Exhibitions
(2023) Eleanor Oakes, Belle Isle Viewing Room, Detroit, MI;
(2022) exposure / lots lots, The Photography Gallery at Riley Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN;
(2019) Barnes Hall, Tyler Wood Gallery, Long Island City, NY;
(2016) Graffiti Wanted, 849 Henry St, Detroit, MI;
(2015) Residual Loop, Tyler Wood Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Honors & Awards
(2023) Flourish Fund Grant Recipient, Culture Source + the Andy Warhol Foundation, Detroit, MI;
(2022) PhMuseum Women Photographer Grant Shortlist, Bologna, Italy;
(2016) Ponyride Detroit Applebaum Emerging Artist Resident;
(2014) Anita Squires Fowler Award, Stanford University;
(2013) Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards;
(2012) Flash Forward, Magenta Foundation;
(2007) 25 Under 25: Up-And-Coming American Photographers, Center for Documentary Studies and powerHouse Books;
(2007) Francis LeMoyne Page Visual Arts Award, Princeton University;
(2006) Lawrence P. Wolfen 1987 Award, Princeton University

Select Group Exhibitions
(2023) In dreams I walk with you, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA;
(2023) FAINT, Wasserman Projects, Detroit, MI;
(2023) Glimpse, Radius Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA;
(2023) Get Together, Reyes | Finn, Detroit, MI;
(2023) Objects of Affection, Wasserman Works at Wasserman Projects, Detroit, MI;
(2022) Double Life, Elaine Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI;
(2021) Edition 365, 1854 Media, ART3.io, digital;
(2020) Context 2020, Filter Space, Chicago, IL;
(2019) We the People, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA;
(2018) Edition 18, Simone de Sousa Gallery, Detroit, MI;
(2018) Uncertain Times, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA;
(2017) Community, Playground Detroit, Detroit, MI;
(2017) Round in Circles, N’Namdi Gallery, Detroit, MI;
(2014) Hidden Rooms, International Festival of Video + Performance Art, Palazzo Ca' Zanardi, Venice, Italy;
(2014) Half Tilt Full Lean, Thomas Welton Gallery, Stanford, CA;
(2013) Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Exhibition, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA;
(2013) Before Your Very Eyes, Performance Studies International #19, Stanford, CA;
(2013) MFA Now, Root Division, San Francisco, CA;
(2013) Arsenal, Thomas Welton Gallery, Stanford, CA;
(2008) 25 Under 25: Up-And-Coming American Photographers, Gulf and Western Gallery, New York, NY;

Bibliography
(2022, Fall) "milk and tears," Beyond, Heidelberg, Germany: Kalamari Klub;
(2019, Fall) "Renovations, January 2018," Detroit Sequential, Detroit, MI: Rotland Press;
(2019, October) "Removed," LOSTiN Detroit, Berlin, Germany: LOSTin City Guides;
(2019, June) "Detroit Voter Portraits," Beyond, Heidelberg, Germany: Kalamari Klub;
(2012) Flash Forward - Emerging Photographers 2012, Toronto, Ontario: Magenta Publishing for the Arts;
(2008) 25 Under 25: Up-And-Coming American Photographers, Vol. 2, Brooklyn, New York: powerHouse Books and the Center for Documentary Studies;
(2006) Ebbing Borders, Flowing Lives: Articulating Reality in a Northeastern Megalopolis, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University