Born in Oslo, Norway, Eva Faye completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree at Parsons School of Design in Paris and New York City prior to getting her Master of Fine Arts Degree at Hunter College in New York City. She currently resides between New York City and Bridgehampton, New York, two drastically different settings which help fuel her practice.
Through organic patterns applied to vellum, oil paint, linen and wood, Eva Faye’s work finds genesis in the mutual observance of nature to express what is nonverbal and vulnerable, into external forms and substance. She creates supple, translucent, and membrane-like works by puncturing, cutting, painting and layering to achieve moments of visual time and experience.
Over the past thirty years, Faye’s drawings and paintings have been exhibited in Norway and the United States at The Drawing Center in Oslo, Norway, The National Gallery of Art in Oslo, Norway, The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, NY, Ille Arts Gallery in Amagansett, NY and Bærum Kunstforening in Bærum, Norway - to name just a few.
She is the recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and numerous Norwegian grants and artist awards. Her work is in private and public collections such as The National Gallery of Art in Oslo, Norway, The Norwegian Council for the Arts, Bærum City Hall in Sandvika, Norway, The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York, and the DNB Bank, and Montefiore Art Collection in New York City.