离家太远
Too Far From Home
Digital
2021
Eva Lin Fahey (she/her) is a painter and writer based in Massachusetts. Eva primarily works in water-based media to create abstracted, dream-like spaces. These spaces explore the interconnections between family, cultural hybridity, loss, and longing.
As one of over a quarter of a million children adopted internationally from China, her work exists within the context of this shared experience of cultural loss, personal migration, and separation. It is often centered around themes of motherhood, intergenerational ties, and the East Asian diaspora.
Artist Statement
My work clasps the hands of remembering and learning in the hope of growing both surrounded by memory and with an openness to the world I share with others. I create work that exists in the language of painting and flows in a longing to connect with my ancestral culture. To create and grow from broken branches is to heal from the divide of land and body with a new richness.
My work begins with my absence of personal history — biologically, phonetically, and geographically, created by the trauma of transracial/transnational adoption and the wide-reaching impact of China’s One-Child Policy. It moves forward in my intentional re-learning of language and culture through my relationship with myself and my children. My timeline begins with a violent wiping of the slate but moves forward through connection and the creation of new memories with the generosity and contribution of others. Through constraint in color and repetition of imagery, my work asks for pause, patience, and vulnerability in growing.
CV
Education
2018 BFA Painting, Art History Minor: University of Massachusetts Amherst, Commonwealth Honors College. Magna Cum Laude
Exhibitions:
Solo
Lost (Together), Hosmer Gallery, Northampton, MA July 2023
What I Brought (away from the Motherland), ECA Gallery, Easthampton, MA. November 2022
In Lieu of Flowers, ECA Gallery, Easthampton, MA. January 2021
Origins: It Feels Different With You Here, Hampden Gallery, Amherst, MA. April–May, 2018
In Flux: The Motion of Change, The Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA. November–December 2017
Group
A Celebration of AWE: Sharing the Artworks of ECA’s Past & Present Studio Residents, MAP Space, Easthampton, MA. November 2022
Motherhood, Small Works Gallery, Gateway City Arts, Holyoke, MA May 2022
Night Shift, MAP Gallery, Eastworks, Easthampton, MA. May 2019
Going Within: Self-Portraiture as Medicine, MAP Space, Eastworks, Easthampton, MA. October 2018
South Arkansas Arts Center Annual Juried Art Competition, Price and Merkle Galleries, El Dorado, AR. July – August 2018
5th Annual Juried Show, Gallery A3, Amherst, MA. June 2018
Junior/Senior Awards Show, Herter Art Gallery, Amherst, MA. May 2018
Cheap Art Show II, Student Union Art Gallery, Amherst, MA. May 2018
Science and Art Exhibition, Student Union Art Gallery, Amherst, MA. April 2018
Student Union Art Gallery's 4th Annual POP Show, Student Union Art Gallery, Amherst, MA. March, 2018
Carbon, Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry, Wilmington, MA. February–April, 2018
Carbon, Herter Art Gallery, Amherst, MA. February, 2018
Manifold Curiosity, Mahar Auditorium, Amherst, MA. December 2017
Cheap Art Show, Student Union Art Gallery, Amherst, MA. December 2017
Small Works Show, Hope and Feathers Gallery, Amherst, MA. November 2017-January 2018
8x8 Fundraiser, MAP Space, Eastworks, Easthampton, MA. November 2017
BOOX: Bound and Unbound Artist Books, Lee Edwards Gallery, Amherst, MA. September 2017
Living Pictures: A Collection of Conversations, Student Union Art Gallery, Amherst, MA. April 2017
HFA Student Showcase 2017, UMass Amherst, April 2017
Covalence, Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry, Wilmington, MA. March-April 2017
Collaborative Aggregates and UMass Art Department Student Scholarship Exhibition, Lee Edwards Gallery, Amherst, MA. December 2016
HFA Student Showcase 2016, UMass Amherst, April 2016
Residencies, Grants, Scholarships, and Awards
ValleyCreates Capacity-Building grant, MASS MoCA's Assets For Artists Program, 2023
Mass Cultural Council’s Cultural Sector Recovery Grant, 2022
Art Workspace Easthampton (AWE): A Residency Program for Visual, Literary & Performing Artists. Easthampton City Arts (ECA) Easthampton, MA. November 2020- January 2021
1st Place Studio Arts Award, juried by Department of Art faculty and awarded to one graduating senior, University of Massachusetts Art Department, May 2018
Art Acquisition Award, juried by the Department of Art Chair, University of Massachusetts Art Department, May 2018
UMass Arts Council Mini-Grant: for the solo show, Origins: It Feels Different With You Here, April 2018
UMass Arts Council Single Project/Event Grant for the group show, "Manifold Curiosity", December 2017
Collaborative Aggregates Studio Art Scholarship, October 2017
Cecelia Siemen Scholarship in the Visual Arts, May 2017
Eleanora Johnson Scholarship – Scholarship from juried Junior/Senior Awards Show, Junior Award First Place, May 2017
UMass Arts Council Mini Grant for the animation, "Planet", December 2016
Collaborative Aggregates Studio Art Scholarship, October 2016
University Museum of Contemporary Art Banner Design Winner, 2016
Collections
The Art Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, It Feels Different With You Here, Amherst, MA
Publications
Aisthesis, Volume 9, Dalia in Mill River, May 2018