Eve Fowler (b. 1964, Philadelphia, PA) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. A graduate of Temple University (BA, 1986) and Yale University (MFA, 1992), Fowler expands from a foundation in photography to create work that coalesces art and language. Her two-dimensional works take the form of paintings, billboards, posters, prints, and signs, using mediums such as neon, paint, and vinyl. In addition, she creates installations, films, and sound pieces, often resulting from collaborations with other artists, filmmakers, and writers. Her practice is concerned with the power of words, language, and cultural biases as those topics relate to gender politics and queerness in a contemporary and historical context.

Fowler has had solo and two-artist exhibitions at Gordon Robichaux, New York; Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Cambridge, MA (forthcoming); Morán Morán, Los Angeles; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; University Art Gallery, Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, CA; Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland; Participant Inc., New York; Mier Gallery, Los Angeles; Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, OR; Half Gallery, New York; ArtSpace, Sydney; Gallery 12.26, Dallas, TX; Feature New York(with Sam Gordon); Printed Matter, New York(with Sam Gordon); University of California, Roski School of Art, Los Angeles; Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Horton (L.E.S. Sundays), New York; and White Columns, New York.

In addition to her studio practice, Fowler organizes Artist Curated Projects in Los Angeles. She is a recipient of a 2017 Art Matters grant, was a Radcliffe Institute Fellow at Harvard University (2018–2019), was named a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow in Fine Arts (2021), and received the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Roy Lichtenstein Award (2022).

Her work has also been included in many group exhibitions, notably a field of bloom and hum, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; Houseguest: Mute Flesh, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Queer California: Untold Stories, Oakland Art Museum; Extratextual, Contemporary Calgalry, Canada; FOUND: Queer Archaeology, Queer Abstraction, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, New York; Sites of Reason: A Selection of Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project, organized by LAND; Made in LA, Hammer Museum and LAXART, Los Angeles; B-Out, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York; Greater Los Angeles, UNTITLED, New York; Imposing Order: Contemporary Photography and the Archive, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Fantasy of Failed Utopias and a Girl’s Daydream, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart; with it which it as it if it is to be, Participant Inc., New York; Retreat, Peres Projects, Los Angeles; A Work in Progress: Selections from the New Museum Collection, New Museum, New York; Game Face, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; White Columns, New York.

Fowler’s book Anyone Telling Anything Is Telling That Thing was published by Printed Matter in 2013. Her second book, Hustlers, was published by Capricious Publishing in 2014. Her film with it which it as it if it is to be screened at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Lumber Room, Portland, OR; and Tate St. Ives, UK. A more extensive iteration of the project, with it which it as it if it is to be, Part II (2019) screened at the New Museum, New York, and The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY.

Fowler’s work is held in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The New Museum, New York; and The Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC.