West Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Eliza Gregory

Saturday, November 04, 2017 @ 1:00pm, Agate Bay, Granlibakken Conference Center

Justice, Representation & Responsibility—Hour 1

Saturday, November 04, 2017 @ 2:00pm, Agate Bay, Granlibakken Conference Center

Justice, Representation & Responsibility—Hour 2

Eliza Gregory is an artist and an educator. Her practice blends curatorial strategies, visual art, and human connection. She collaborates with people of all ages. She is an Assistant Professor of Photography and Social Practice at Sacramento State University, and holds a BA from Princeton University (Magna Cum Laude) and an MFA from Portland State University's Art & Social Practice program.

Eliza's work focuses on identity, relationships, and connections between people and places. She builds complex project structures that unfold over time to reveal compassion, insight and new social forms. Her current project, [Placeholder], about repairing ruptured relationships to land, invites participants into collaborative dialogues and collaborative art-making, and has been presented in a series of exhibitions, podcasts, videos and publications since 2019. Her work is in museum collections and private collections, and she has partnered and exhibited with a wide range of organizations such as the Asian Art Museum (San Francisco), Cincinnati FotoFocus, Southern Exposure (San Francisco), the Arizona State Museum of Anthropology (Tempe), the Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR), HeadOn Photo Festival (Sydney, Australia) and the Melbourne Museum (Melbourne, Australia). She has directed the Backroom Gallery at Adobe Books in San Francisco (2016-2018) and Axis Gallery in Sacramento (2022-2024). She has received grants and commissions from various organizations including the California Arts Council, the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the StoreFrontLab in San Francisco. For two years she was an Artist in Residence at Peregrine Elementary School in Davis. Last year she was an Artist in Residence at the UC Davis Student Farm.

Photo Credit: Imani Jack