Iris Eichenberg Last updated February 01, 2026 Critical reception The Cranbrook Museum of Art review of her work for her "Bend" exhibit noted it "...is renowned for its diverse collections and challenges to the definitions of craft and jewelry; the result is an unconventional retrospective of her twenty-five-year career told through a body of new work." [ 4]
Of Eichenberg's art Dora Apel wrote that her works "convey a searching spirit that permeates Iris Eichenberg’s work, which often meditates on making home and finding our place in the world. Related in some way to the body, her constructions produce sensorial and emotional effects that stretch conventional boundaries to explore structures of feeling". [ 1]
Selected exhibits Eichenberg's works are in permanent collections of the Museum of Arts and Design , the Rijksmuseum , the Metropolitan Museum of Art , the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam , the Schmuck Museum Pforzheim, the Fondation National d’Art Contemporain in Paris, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston . [ 5] Her group exhibitions at international venues have included the Victoria and Albert Museum , Museum of Art and Design, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian , CaixaForum , Frans Hals Museum , Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts , and Museum Boymans van Beuningen . [ 5]
Solo exhibits Perspex Hands Chatelaine , Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007 [ 6] Pink Years Later, Ornamentum Gallery, 2009 [ 1] Strange Birds, Ornamentum Gallery, 2012 [ 1] X series, Cranberg Art Museum, 2014 [ 1] Bend, Cranberg Art Museum, 2014 [ 7] Real series, Ornamentum Gallery, 2015 [ 1] I Do Not Wish, Ornamentum Gallery, 2017 [ 1] Kein Ort Nirgends ("No Place Anywhere") and Moreland, Simone DeSousa Gallery, 2017 [ 5] [ 8] The Domestic Plane: New Perspectives On Tabletop Art Objects, The Aldrich Contemporary Art MuseumUseless Utility , Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit , 2019 [ 9] [ 10] Selected group exhibits "Collect", Saatchi Gallery , London, 2009 [ 11] "Setting the Table", Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, 2011 [ 12] "MoreLand", Simone DeSousa Gallery, 2017 [ 8] "Handheld", Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 2018 [ 13] Awards 1994 — Gerrit Rietveld Academy Award [ 5] 1999 — Artist in Residence, EKWC, s'-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands [ 14] 1999 — Herbert Hofmann Prize, (Schmuckszene Munich) [ 5] 1999, 2001 — Residencies: European Ceramic Center in Den Bosch [ 5] 2000 — Artist Stimulation Award from the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts [ 5] 2002, 2005 —Incentive Grants from the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture [ 4] References 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Apel, Dora (February 18, 2019). "118 Iris Eichenberg | Essay'd" . Essay'd : Detroit art + Detroit artists . Retrieved July 25, 2019 . 1 2 "Artist-in-Residence Iris Eichenberg" . Cranbrook Art Academy . 2017. Archived from the original on January 26, 2018. Retrieved March 7, 2019 . ↑ "Iris Eichenberg – Artists – Ornamentum Gallery, contemporary jewelry" . www.ornamentumgallery.com . Retrieved April 10, 2020 . 1 2 "Iris Eichenberg: Bend" . Cranbrook Art Museum . Retrieved March 8, 2019 . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Iris Eichenberg Exhibits – Simone DeSousa Gallery" . www.simonedesousagallery.com . Archived from the original on September 20, 2021. Retrieved March 8, 2019 . ↑ "Perspex Hands Chatelaine" . www.metmuseum.org . 2007. Retrieved March 7, 2019 . ↑ "Iris Eichenberg: Bend | Cranbrook Art Museum" . cranbrookartmuseum.org . Retrieved May 9, 2020 . 1 2 "Eichenberg and Turner Featured Academy Graduates in "Moreland" at Simone DeSousa Gallery" . Cranbrook Academy of Art . October 11, 2017. Retrieved July 25, 2019 . ↑ "Eichenberg, Iris | 5 Exhibitions and Events" . www.mutualart.com . Retrieved May 7, 2020 . ↑ "Iris Eichenberg | Artist Profile with Bio" . www.mutualart.com . Retrieved March 8, 2019 . ↑ "Golden globes" . The Economist . ISSN 0013-0613 . Retrieved May 10, 2020 . ↑ "Six Local Artists Grapple with the Specter of Detroit's Manufacturing Heritage" . www.mutualart.com . Retrieved September 28, 2019 . ↑ "Eichenberg is part of "Handheld" at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum" . Cranbrook Academy of Art . May 24, 2018. Retrieved July 25, 2019 . ↑ "Artist Talk: Iris Eichenberg" . Look See . Archived from the original on March 16, 2015. Retrieved March 8, 2019 . External links
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