Eva
Lake / Biography
Eva Lake is an artist who began
working during the 1970s Punk era, making collages for fanzines and window installations.
Her fanzines are in MOMA's collection of artist books. She has shown her work internationally since 1980. She studied art
history at the University of Oregon and painting at the Art Students League of
New York. While in school she worked for the York Archaeological Trust in Yorkshire. As a singer in post punk
bands she recorded with Trap Records in the Pacific Northwest. Her day job was in makeup, beauty and fashion
and this, plus her studies in art history, have formed the foundation and
subject matter for much of her work in photomontage. For over a dozen years she interviewed other art people on the radio, specifically KPSU and KBOO,
and has written about art for various publications including Art Week, Visual
Art Source, Preview and the Bay Area Guardian.
Lake also curated exhibitions and worked at galleries including Lovelake and the Russo Lee Gallery. Born in Los Angeles, she then grew up on a dirt
road in southern Oregon. Lake currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon and
is represented by Frosch and Co in New York
City and Modernism in San Francisco.
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