Bio - Eva Mayer

The Austrian artist Eva Mayer was born in 1975 and presently resides and works in Paris. She studied stage design at the Salzburg Academy of Music and Performing Arts Mozarteum (Austria) and at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, in the United States. She then went on to study photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York

Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions in Strasbourg, Brusselsand Paris, and as part of collective exhibitions in France,Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Lithuania and the United States.

These exhibitions include, among others: I-Brow at the Los Angeles Center For Digital Art, the Trente exhibition at the Summer Photographic Festival in Trégor, France, and Women and Mystery at the Festival Kaunas Photo Days in Lithuania. Her work was also exhibited at the Salon d’art contemporain de Montrouge (Paris) in 2006, and once again in 2007. She is presently representing Austria in the Jeune Création Européenne (2007-2009) traveling exhibition. Her next exhibition will be held in May 2009 in Guyancourt (France). In June 2009 she will also participate at the biennale REV'ARTS in Bezons (France).

Series of photographs taken by this artist have been published in several contemporary art catalogues and journals including Afterimage (New York), Frankfurter Rundschau (Frankfurt) and le Mois de la photographie in Paris. In 2009 SAGAMIE Édition d’art has published her first book called Tous les jours sont des adieux.

Eva Mayer was also artist in residence in Paliano (Italy) in 2007. In 2009 she got a grant from the Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes to develop the project Tous les jours sont des adieux in Québec.