Eve Whitaker has lived near Austin, Texas since 2003. Over the last twenty years she has been represented by Gruen Galleries, Chicago; Joyce Petter Gallery, Michigan; and SOHO20/Chelsea Gallery, NY. She received her BFA from Michigan State University and an MFA from Indiana University – Bloomington in Printmaking. In addition to her studio work she has worked for the Indiana University Art Museum, the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts in Michigan, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

            Exhibiting her work early in regional and national competitions and invitational exhibitions, as well as solo shows in Michigan and Chicago, Whitaker received regional attention from the media, museum curators, and commercial galleries immediately out of graduate school. A few years later she moved to Chicago and was again immediately invited to have a solo show of new work at the Contemporary Arts Workshop in Chicago; and was also sponsored by Joy Horwich in a national traveling invitational “17^th Annual Art & The Law”.

            Whitaker lived and worked in Chicago from 1991 to 2003, during which time she developed “Women in the City”, a series of paintings observing the Chicago city scape. She also developed there a series of large drawing/paintings called “Ancestral Excavations”, which have been shown in solo and group venues around the country. Currently some of this series are touring the country in a group invitational organized by Jennifer Heath, “The Veil: Visible and Invisible Spaces” until 2011.  Whitaker's latest solo show is scheduled for October 2010 here in Austin, entitled “Machines & Creaking Carts”, a series about family connections.