BIO
Eva Tellier is a visual artist who primarily works with ceramic, fibers, and organic materials. Born in France, she later moved to Montreal, Canada, where she completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a focus in Fiber and Material Practices at Concordia University in 2020. She graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2025. Tellier has shown her work internationally in Europe, Canada and the United States. She lives and works in New York City where she has recently ended a residency at SculptureSpace NYC and is currently the artist fellow at the Museum of Art and Design.
Inspired by the anatomies of hard- and soft-bodied species and the queer polymorphism of nature, Tellier's work imagines the potential of becoming, blending human-made and natural designs. She rescripts traditional ceramic coiling techniques as a form of contemporary technology to generate alternative morphologies. Her process combines skin-like materials and structures made from hollow clay tubes with compulsive, ornate vocabularies that evoke porous bodies and their internal impulses. The tube in her work functions as a conduit, referencing anatomical designs present in the human body. It acts simultaneously as exoskeleton, flesh, and organ - dancing between interior and exterior. Tellier carves these tubes with surgical precision to create openings and orifices that allow the forms to breathe, discharge, and possibly leak.
Her maximalist aesthetic presents a guttural delicacy and fragility, using decorative elements and their feminine associations to invoke the monstrous feminine. By merging futuristic bodies and artifacts, these queer chimeras celebrate coexistence and otherness, challenging binary structures and societal expectations of the body, femininity, and beauty. Pushing the boundaries of her craft mirrors her exploration of queerness and enables her to dismantle biological and societal limitations surrounding sexual and gendered identity.
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B.1998, France. Based in New York City.
Education:
2023-25 MFA Ceramics, NYSCC at Alfred University, Alfred, NY, USA.
2016-20 BFA Fibers and Material practices, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
Residencies:
2025-26 Artist Fellow, Museum of Art and Design, NYC, USA.
2025 Artist in residence, SculptureSpaceNYC, NYC, USA.
2022 Two month YAIR residency, Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center, Denmark.
2022 Month long Research-creation residency Rozynski Art Center, Canada.
2022 Two month Flex residency, Medalta, Contemporary Ceramic Center, Alberta, Canada.
2021 Three month YAIR residency, Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center, Denmark.
Selected exhibitions:
2025 Ant/i/Bodies, solo MFA thesis show, Fosdick Nelson Gallery, NYSSC Alfred, NY, USA.
2025 Soft Logics, Greenwich Pottery House, NYC, USA.
2024 Around the Corner, Cohen Galerie, NYSCC, Alfred, NY, USA.
2023 Collection ArtVolt, Livart, Montréal, Canada.
2023 Rework Traditions, Galerie Erga, Montréal, Canada.
2023 Bouquet Final, Culot13, Marseille, France.
2023 Diner Curriculum Chromé, Atelier Jeanne Barret, Marseille, France.
2023 Expo des Membres, Céline Bureau, Montréal, Canada.
2022 Pattern and Repetition, Online Group Show, SiteBrooklyn Gallery.
2021 A Circle is a Whole, Solo booth, Festival Claytopia, Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center, Denmark.
2021 La nuit de l’art, Tanthem Live, Montreal, Canada.
2019 Sightlines, Atelier-Galerie A. Piroir, Montreal, Canada.
Grants and Awards:
2022 Recent undergraduates and graduates Residency award at Rozynski Art Center, Quebec, Canada.
2020 Fine Arts Student Alliance Special Project Grant, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec.
Publications:
2025 Studio Talk with Eva Tellier, Interview August 2025, Impulse Magazine.
2023 Collection Artvolt article, May 2023.
2023 Eva Tellier, A Circle is a Whole, Les Impostures podcast - Episode 20
2022 Interview Radio Canada, La Mecque de l’argile pour les artistes ceramistes - April 2022.
2022 Interview for Immrama Magazine- March 2022.
2020 Tightrope, Concordia University Fibers and Material Practices magazine, p. 35-36 - June 2020.
Collections:
Alfred Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred, NY, USA.
ArtVolt Collection, Montréal, Canada.
Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center, Skaelskor, Denmark.