Iris Eichenberg

Iris Eichenberg studied at Gerrit Rietveld Academie and European Ceramics Work Center. Aaron Decker is recorded as having studied under Iris Eichenberg. The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is ceramic art. Places of work recorded in the authority are Amsterdam. Work by Iris Eichenberg is recorded in the collections of Museum Arnhem, CODA Museum, Stichting Françoise van den Bosch collection, Ruudt Peters collection and Susan Grant Lewin Collection. Distinctions recorded are Susan Beech Mid Career Grant.

• Born — 1965 • Birthplace — Göttingen, Germany • Style — Contemporary • Known for — Metalsmithing, jewelry design

Born Göttingen, Germany, in 1965, Eichenberg graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam in 1994.

Eichenberg taught at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie beginning in 1996, and became head of the Jewelry Department from 2000–2007. She has been Artist in Residence and head of the Metalsmithing Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan since 2006.

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. 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.

• Perspex Hands Chatelaine, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007 • Pink Years Later, Ornamentum Gallery, 2009 • Strange Birds, Ornamentum Gallery, 2012 • X series, Cranberg Art Museum, 2014 • Bend, Cranberg Art Museum, 2014 • Real series, Ornamentum Gallery, 2015 • I Do Not Wish, Ornamentum Gallery, 2017 • Kein Ort Nirgends ("No Place Anywhere") and Moreland, Simone DeSousa Gallery, 2017 • The Domestic Plane: New Perspectives On Tabletop Art Objects, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum • Useless Utility, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, 2019

• "Collect", Saatchi Gallery, London, 2009 • "Setting the Table", Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, 2011 • "MoreLand", Simone DeSousa Gallery, 2017 • "Handheld", Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 2018

Iris Eichenberg is recorded as having studied at Gerrit Rietveld Academie and European Ceramics Work Center. Eichenberg received Susan Beech Mid Career Grant.