Eleanor Mahin Thorp CV

Education

2022. MFA, Virginia Commonwealth University, Painting and Printmaking, Richmond, VA 2020. BFA, Weber State University, Ogden, UT

Solo Exhibitions

2025 Bend of the Southern Cross, Plato Gallery, September, New York NY

Friends of My Luonto, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, February Richmond, VA

2023 Metopic Ridge, ICA Tephra, November, Washington DC

Earth Blossom, Two-person exhibition with Ali Kaeini, 1708 Gallery, May, Richmond, VA

2022 Blast Zone, The Anderson Gallery, April, Richmond, VA

Awards and Residencies

2025 Yellowstone Art Museum Artist in Residence

Catherine Doctorow Prize in Contemporary Painting (Nominated)

2024 Wassaic Projects Artist in Residence

La Wayaka Artist Residency (Chile)

Monson Arts Artist Residency

Banff Centre Emerging Artist in Residence (Canada)

2023 Arteles Artist in Residence (Finland)

VCU Arts Faculty Research Grant

Virginia Museum of Fine Art Professional Fellowship

Virginia Center for Creative Arts Artist Fellowship

2022 Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Studio Access Residency

Trawick Prize Semi Finalist

2020 The Hopper Prize Finalist

Publications

2024. Crisis, Catastrophe, and Collapse: Popular responses to climate change in Emilia Romagna, Anarchist Review of Books, Issue 7, Feb. 2024

2024. In the Galleries, Two Artists Concept of Nature, The Washington Post, Jan 2024. Web. https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2024/01/19/art-gallery-shows-dc-area/ 2022.

2021 Eleanor Mahin Thorp interviewed by Shoutout LA “Meet Mahin Thorp: Painter”, Shoutout LA, February, 2021

2019 Means, Sean P., “Once ‘Sparse and Empty,’ the Heart of Ogden is Becoming a Creative Arts and Culture District” Salt Lake Tribune, December 2019

Select Group Exhibitions and Projects

2023, The Invincible Visible, Transformer Gallery at American University Katzen Arts Center, November, Washington DC

Kinetic, Hamiltonian Artists Fellowship at The Kreeger Museum, September, Washington DC Next Gen 1.0 The Visual Arts Center, June, Rockville, MD

Dancing Orbit, Secret Flowers, June, Richmond, VA

2022, A Well to Draw From, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, October, Richmond, VA. 2021

Language of the Birds, Tuesday Tuesday Gallery, September. Richmond, VA