Eben Kling

b. New Haven, Connecticut

Education

2015 MFA – UMass Amherst, Studio Arts Program, Interdisciplinary, Massachusetts 

2009 BFA –  Montserrat College of Art, Printmaking, Beverly, Massachusetts 

Art Instruction 

2017 – Current, Assistant Professor of Illustration and Printmaking, Central Connecticut State University

2018 – Current, Serving Member of Portfolio Review Committee, Central Connecticut State University

2018 – Current, Serving Member of Capstone Advisory Committee, Central Connecticut State University

2016 – 2017 Adjunct Professor of Printmaking, Montserrat College of Art

2016 – 2017 Adjunct Professor of Drawing, Albertus Magnus College

2015 –  Visiting Artist, Montserrat College of Art, Lecture, Critique and Studio Visits

2012 – 2015 Graduate “Assistant”, Printmaking and Drawing, Umass Amherst

Solo Exhibitions

2018 – New Paintings, The Dirty Truth, Northampton, Massachusetts

2017 – Negative Event, Mingo Gallery, Beverly, Massachusetts

2016 – Humanoids, Artspace, New Haven, Connecticut

2016 – Commotion Potion, Occam Projects, Providence, Rhode Island

2016 – Commotion Potion, Hygienic Arts, New London, Connecticut 

2015 – Bends, Carol Schlosberg Gallery, Beverly, Massachusetts

2015 – Blundered by the Borrower, Easthampton, Massachusetts 

2013 – Uninhibited Behavior, Mingo Gallery, Beverly, Massachusetts 

Group Exhibitions

2018 Tell Us a Story, Manchester Community College, Manchester, Connecticut 

2017 Lack of Better Words, Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, Connecticut

2016 New Imagism in Contemporary Painting, Good Work Gallery, Brooklyn, New York 

2016 hello world!, Artspace, New Haven, Connecticut

2016 Black and White Mass, NoPop Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

2015 By and By, The Gallery at Constitution Plaza, Hartford, Connecticut

2015 Inaugural Exhibition, Seen Gallery, Pawtucket, Rhode Island

2014 Trying, Mingo Gallery, Beverly, Massachusetts

2014 Mud and Mercury, Canal Gallery, Holyoke, Massachusetts

2014 Boston Young Contemporaries, 808 Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts 

2014 Emerging Artists, St. Botolph Club, Boston, Massachusetts 

2014 Enlargement, Headquarters, Northampton, Massachusetts

2013 When We’re Together, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts  

2013 Dreamtime: New Surrealism, Mirus Gallery, San Francisco, California 

2013 91-95, George Washington University, Washington DC

2013 Boston Young Contemporaries, 808 Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

2012 Seven, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, Massachusetts 

Upcoming – Intensive Week Long Workshop, SAW (Sequential Arts Workshop, Gainesville, Florida 

2015 – 2016, Artist in Residence, Artspace New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut.

2011 – Printmaking Fellowship, Zea Mays Printmaking, Florence, Massachusetts. 

Curatorial Work

2016 – Present, Curatorial Advisory Board, Artspace, New Haven

2014 – Tracks, Eastworks, Eastampton, Massachusetts  

2014 – The Odd Job, Eastworks, Easthampton, Massachusetts

2014 – Another Day, Another River, Flying Object, Hadley, Massachusetts 

2013 – Bends, UMass Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts  

2011 – Papergirl Northampton #2, Northampton, Massachusetts 

2010 – And in One Another#2, Northampton, Massachusetts

2010 – Papergirl Northampton #1, Northampton, Massachusetts 

2010 – And in One Another #1, Northampton, Massachusetts

2009 – Take Three Daily, Bear Gallery, Beverly, Massachusetts  

Relevant Professional Experience

2015 – 2016 Museum Technician, Yale Museum of Art and Architecture, New Haven

2015 – 2017 Gallery Technician, Artspace, New Haven 

2009 – 2010 Studio Assistant, Peter Kitchell, Ashfield, Massachusetts 

2005 – 2009 Studio Assistant, Thaddeus Beal, Essex, Massachusetts 

2005 – 2009 Gallery Staff, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, Massachusetts 

2005 – 2009 Custom Framer, Hannah Shop Custom Framing, Beverly, Massachusetts 

Reviews, Interviews and Publications

2018 – CARGO #1, Cargo Press, Providence, Rhode Island

2018 – Friday Magazine #2, Portland, Oregon 

2018 – BLACK PRINT BLACK PAPER, NOPOP Press, Miami, Florida

2018 – Connecticut’s Compulsive Cowboy, JUXTAPOZ, John Arvantis

https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/eben-kling-connecticut-s-compulsive-cowboy/

2017 – 10 Emerging New England Artists, Art New England, Alison Williams

http://artnewengland.com/ed_picks/10-emerging-new-england-artists/

2016 – I Was Confused About What I Was Looking At, Take Magazine, Lauren Clark

https://thetakemagazine.com/i-was-confused-about-what-i-was-looking-at/

2016 – Haunted House of Cards, Take Magazine, Erin White

https://thetakemagazine.com/haunted-house-cards/

2016 – Artist in Residence Interview, Sarah Fritchey

https://vimeo.com/197415937

2016 – The Family Arcana, Ninepin Press, Jedediah Berry

2015 –  Connecting Figures (part 2): New Humanism in Recent Contemporary Figurative Painting and Sculpture, Rhino Horn Group, Adam Zucker

https://rhinohornartists.wordpress.com/2015/05/05/connecting-figures-part-2-new-humanism-in-recent-contemporary-figurative-painting-sculpture/

2012 – Cape Anne Contemporary, Art New England, Mary Bucci McCoy

http://www.buccimccoy.com/media/writing/Cape_Ann_ANE.pdf