EBEN GOFF
Born 1977, Seattle
Lives and works in Los Angeles
MFA 2009 University of California, Los Angeles
BS 2000 Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 New Sculpture, Diane Rosenstein Fine Art, Los Angeles
2013 Apples: Collaborative Sculpture by Eben Goff and Rowan Wood, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles
2011 Batholith Etchings, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
2010 Exotic Solids, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
2008 Salvage Geometry, Aunt Dofe's Hall of Recent Memory, Willow Creek, MT.
2006 Buried Paintings, Aunt Dofe's Hall of Recent Memory, Willow Creek, MT.
2005 Phantom Gallery Project, Mai Wah Museum, Butte, MT.
2004 Breaking the Skin, Aunt Dofe's Hall of Recent Memory, Willow Creek, MT.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 The Black Mirror, curated by James Welling and Diane Rosenstein, Diane Rosenstein Fine Art, Los Angeles
2012 NeoNatural, curated by Doug Crocco, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles
Even Gravity has its Ups & Downs, curated by Mark Carter, Arena1, Santa Monica
In the Dark, Durden & Ray, LAMART, Los Angeles
2011 Mother Fucking Anti-Delusionists, curated by Rowan Wood, Anne Martens, Los Angeles
Small Works, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
Entering Abstraction, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
Batholith Etchings, Accident & Artifact, San Francisco, CA.
Aunt Dofe's Hall of Recent Memory, Willow Creek, MT.
2010 Somewhere on a Desert Highway, curated by Yael Lipshutz, JK Gallery, Los Angeles.
Bromenclature, curated by Frank Ryan, FiveThirtyThree, Los Angeles
Northwest Artists Draw, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID.
2009 Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
GLAMFA, CSULB, Long Beach, CA (cat.).
MFA #3 (w/ Meagan Hill-Carroll, Mitsuko Ikeno, & Michael van Straaten), New Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles
2008 2008 Torrance Juried Exhibition, curated by Gosia Wojas, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA.
MFA 2009, New Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles
Greater LA MFA Exhibition, CSULB, Long Beach, CA.
Black Dragon: 10th Anniversary Show, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles
2007 International Language, Holter Museum, Helena, MT.
2006 Changing Currents: Altered Landscapes, Gallery of Visual Arts, University of Montana, Missoula, MT.
New American Talent, Art House at the Jones Center, Austin, TX. (cat.)
Iona (w/ EJ Engler & Dave Kirk), Phantom Gallery Project, Butte, MT.
2005 XXX and Under: Seven Alumni Artists, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY.
2004 As It Is, Was, Or Could Be (w/ Marcy James), UC Gallery, University of Montana, Missoula, MT.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Frank, Peter, John M.Miller & Eben Goff- Haiku Reviews, Huffington Post, April 2013
Wagley, Catherine, "Putting earth in a box so it can break out again", LA Weekly, April 4, 2013
Shaw, Michael, "Eben Goff" ArtScene (So.Cal), Vol.32 No.8, April 2013
Wagley, Catherine, "Burned", LA Weekly, Jan.17, 2013
Some Kind of Nature, Mammut, issue 5, 2012
Shaw, Michael, Artist Podcast with Eben Goff, NotesonLooking.com, November, 2011
Frey, David Andrew, “Future History”, CultureHall.com, June, 2010
Flasse, Sabrina Dana, “Back to Basics”, Idaho Mountain Express, May 5, 2010.
Mizota, Sharon, “Somewhere on a Desert Highway’ at JK Gallery”, LA Times, April 26, 2010
Moore, Bryan Allen, “The Reverie of Evaluation”, GLAMFA, CSULB 2009 (cat.).
Goff, Eben, “A Gumby Wilderness”, catalogue essay for “Ryan Sluggett: Reclining Landscapes”, Khyber ICA, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2009.
“Leave the Land Alone”, Mammut, issue 1, 2008.
Stauffer, R., “Layers of Time”, Montana Standard, July 23,2006
Corriel, Michele, “Interview with Eben Goff”, Tributary Journal, April 2006
“Eben Goff: Mine Paintings”, CutBank Literary Magazine, 63/64 2005, University of Montana (ASUM)
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2009 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant
Hoyt Scholarship
2008 Elaine Krown Klien Fine Arts Scholarship
D'Arcy Hayman Scholarship
Edward J. and Alice Mae Smith Scholarship
2007 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant
D'Arcy Hayman Award Scholarship
Matthias Denny Award Scholarship
Werner Z. Hirsch Award
2006 UCLA University Fellowship
2004 A. Dofe Fellowship Residency, Butte Silver Bow Arts Foundation, Butte, MT.
2003 Clowes Fellowship Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT.