Eleanor currently resides in Detroit, Michigan. She is Assistant Professor of Photography at the College for Creative Studies and is the founder of Darkroom Detroit.
Education
Stanford University, MFA Art Practice
Princeton University, BA Visual Arts + Art History, cum laude
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, 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
Flourish Fund Grant Recipient, Culture Source + the Andy Warhol Foundation, Detroit, MI, 2023.
PhMuseum Women Photographer Grant Shortlist, Bologna, Italy, 2022.
Ponyride Detroit Applebaum Emerging Artist Resident, 2015 - 2016.
Anita Squires Fowler Award, Stanford University, 2014.
Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards, 2013.
Flash Forward, Magenta Foundation, 2012.
25 Under 25: Up-And-Coming American Photographers,
Center for Documentary Studies and powerHouse Books, 2007.
Francis LeMoyne Page Visual Arts Award, Princeton University, 2007.
Lawrence P. Wolfen 1987 Award, Princeton University, 2006.
Selected 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
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: An Annual Affair, Frontrunner Collective, New York, NY
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
“milk and tears,” Beyond. Heidelberg, Germany: Kalamari Klub, Fall 2022.
“Renovations, January 2018,” Detroit Sequential . Detroit, MI: Rotland Press, Fall 2019.
“Removed,” LOSTiN Detroit . Berlin, Germany: LOSTin City Guides, October 2019.
“Detroit Voter Portraits,” Beyond . Heidelberg, Germany: Kalamari Klub, June 2019.
Flash Forward - Emerging Photographers 2012. Toronto, Ontario: Magenta Publishing for the Arts, 2012.
25 Under 25: Up-And-Coming American Photographers, Vol. 2., Brooklyn, New York: powerHouse Books and the Center for Documentary Studies, 2008.
Ebbing Borders, Flowing Lives: Articulating Reality in a Northeastern Megalopolis. Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 2006.
Publications as Author
“Detroit in Piles,” Infinite Mile, February 2016 Print Release. Detroit, MI. Available online.
Selected Publications + Press
Myesha Johnson, “150 Metro Detroit Artists on Display in Corktown,” The Detroit News, March 2023.
“Eleanor Oakes, milk and tears,” Fast Forward Women in Photography, Oct 2022.
“Unwrapping with Eleanor Oakes,” Culture Volt, Oct 2021.
Stephanie Steinberg, “Darkroom Detroit gives photographers a home to create,” The Detroit News, Sep 2017.
Tanya Moutzalias, “Public Art Project Encourages Graffiti on Wall Near Downtown Detroit,” MLive, June 2016.
Stephanie Steinberg, “Photographer Seeks Detroit Graffiti for Art Project,” The Detroit News, May 2016.
Playground Detroit, “Graffiti Wanted: A Public Art Project in Detroit,” Playground Detroit, April 2016.
Emily Colucci, “Eleanor Oakes: Photographing Absences,” Filmrunner Magazine, Feb 2016.
Anton Stuebner, “Review: Eleanor Oakes,” Art Practical, May 2015.
Luca Curci, “Interview: Eleanor Oakes,” It’s Liquid, Jan 2014.