EDUCATION
2013 Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD
BFA in Painting, concentration in Printmaking
2012 The Arts University College at Bournemouth, Poole, England
2011 São Tomé, Africa Summer Intensive, São Tomé, São Tomé
Painting Program
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2018 Stop and Smell the Roses Sometimes, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME
2017 You Can’t Just Draw a Line in the Sand, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD
2016 The Road to Rio, Platform Gallery @ Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
Wide Eyed, with Nicole Dyer, Savery Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2015 My Mother Always Told Me I'd Grow Up To Be a Lawyer, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
Forwards / / Backwards, with Evelyn Hoffmann, Columbia Art Center, Columbia, MD
2014 The End of Spring, Big Law Country Club @ Silent Barn, Brooklyn, NY
Dreamhouse, Lil' Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2013 Golden Years, (e)merge Art Fair, Capitol Skyline Hotel, Washington, DC
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Miami is Nice, SpaceCamp, Baltimore, MD
Governor's Island Art Fair, Governor's Island, NY
It Was All A Dream, Hemphill Fine Arts at Carroll Square Gallery, Washington, DC
Vox VIII, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
Coldstream Homestead Montebello Sculpture Park, Baltimore, MD
Got It For Cheap, Art Athina, Athens, Greece
Ltd. Wear2, LVL3 Gallery, Chicago, IL
2016 The Last Supper, Turpentine Gallery, Oakland, CA
JRR and Roy, Signal, Brooklyn, NY
W e l c o m e W e l c o m e, Platform Gallery @ Alternative Art Fair, Baltimore, MD
Improbable, LVL3 Gallery, Chicago, IL
Deer in Headlights, Tastykake Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Consumption: Food as Paradox, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
2015 Blushing, Ballroom Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Yes Please Thank You, Platform Gallery, Baltimore, MD
SNTL FUNdraiser, The Windup Space, Baltimore, MD
Baltimore Flavor, MK Gallery, Vienna, VA
We Should See Each Other More Often, The Koban Project, Baltimore, MD
Black and Blue, Gallery 919, Wilmington, DE
2014 B¡NGO, Platform Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Get Small 2014, SessionSpace, Oakland, CA
Bawlmer, Crosstown Arts, Memphis, TN
All The Homies, Lil' Gallery @ Alternative Art Fair, Baltimore, MD
The End, Sophiajacob, Baltimore, MD
Baltimore Array, Carspecken-Scott Gallery, Wilmington, DE
Figure 50, www.figure50.com
Select 2014, Artisphere, Rosslyn, VA
Select 2014 Preview, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Shaper Image: Part II, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts @ artSTRAND, Provincetown, MA
This Red Door, This Red Door @ Reh Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Making It Out Alive, MICA, Baltimore, MD
Odd Logic, Current Space, Baltimore, MD
On/Loan, Area 405, Baltimore, MD
2012 Loaded Pistols, Gallery 500, Baltimore, MD
2011 Certainly So, Penthouse Gallery, Baltimore MD
Los Jaca Dos Americanos, Casa das Artes Criação Ambiente Utopias São Tomé, São Tomé
PRESS
2017 Amy Boone-McCreesh, "Exhibition Visit: Dave Eassa," Inertia Studio Visits, Baltimore, MD
Amber Eve Anderson, "Tamed Lot Turned Sculpture Park," BmoreArt, Baltimore, MD
2016 “This Week’s Must-See Art Events: The Art World Never Shuts Down,” Art F City
Julie Chu Cheong, "Wide Eyed at Savery Gallery," Title Magazine
"Interviews and Wide Eyed Exhibition at Savery Gallery," Fresh Paint Magazine
“Wide Eyed: Nicole Dyer and Dave Eassa at Savery Gallery,” The Art Blog
“Alumni Spotlight,” MICA Juxtapositions, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2015 “OSI Community Fellows,” Midday with Sheilah Kast, WYPR, Baltimore, MD
“Introducing OSI-Baltimore’s 2015 Community Fellows,” OSI Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
“OSI-Baltimore Gets Behind 10 Community Activists with $60,000 Grants,” Baltimore Magazine, Baltimore, MD
Cara Ober, "My Mother Always Told Me I'd Grow Up To Be A Lawyer," BmoreArt, Baltimore, MD
2014 J. Stokes Casey, "Bawlmer," Number: Eighty
Michael Farley, "So good it made nudes and oil paint feel fresh," BmoreArt, Baltimore, MD
Marie Claire Bryant, "Exhibit of the Week: Dave Eassa," Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore, MD
Michael Runyon, "Building a Dreamhouse, Mark by Mark," BmoreArt, Baltimore, MD
Mary Carole McCauley, "Art collector Mera Rubell tours 37 Baltimore art studios in 36 hours," The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, MD
2013 Ian Maclean Davis, "Garage Days," BmoreArt, Baltimore, MD
Cara Ober, "Baltimore Artists, Galleries, and Arts Organizations to exhibit at (e)merge art fair," BmoreArt, Baltimore, MD
Mac Falby, "Sloppy, Inexplicable, and Refreshingly Candid: Odd Logic at Current," BmoreArt, Baltimore, MD
Paddy Johnson, Whitney Kimball and Michael Farley, "We went to Baltimore: Jumbo Mumbo, Part Two," ArtFCity
Baynard Woods, "Baltimore and the so-called death of the gallery," CityPaper, Baltimore, MD
PUBLICATIONS
2016 Alt Esc., Vol. 3
2015 The Pinch Journal, Issue 35
2014 New American Paintings, No. 112
Studio Visit Magazine, Vol. 25
AWARDS
2017 - 2015 Baltimore Community Fellow, Open Society Institute (OSI), Baltimore, MD
2016 Top Ten Art Shows 2016: A Deer in Headlights, BmoreArt, Baltimore, MD
Top Ten Art Shows 2016: Free Space x BYA: A Way Out, City Paper, Baltimore, MD
Individual Artist Award, Creative Baltimore Fund, Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts (BOPA), Baltimore, MD
The Gutierrez Memorial Foundation Merit Award
2015 Individual Artist Award, Creative Baltimore Fund, BOPA, Baltimore, MD
Maryland State Arts Council Mini-Grant
Grit Fund Grantee, The Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
2014 Maryland State Arts Council, Individual Artist Award, Sculpture
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2018 Past-tense, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME
2015 The Kickapoo, Stueben, WI
The Parking Lot, Baltimore, MD
WORK EXPERIENCE
2017 Coldstream Homestead Montebello Sculpture Park Fellow, Baltimore, MD
Station North Arts and Entertainment District Mini-Golf Project, Baltimore, MD
2017 - 2015 Founder and Director, Free Space
2016 Soros Justice Fellowship Convening, Phoenix, AZ
The Contemporary Artist’s Retreat, Pearlstone Center, Reisterstown, MD
2015 Visiting Critic, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
ACRE Artist in Residence, Steuben, WI
2013 Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD
BFA in Painting, concentration in Printmaking
2012 The Arts University College at Bournemouth, Poole, England
2011 São Tomé, Africa Summer Intensive, São Tomé, São Tomé
Painting Program
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2018 Stop and Smell the Roses Sometimes, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME
2017 You Can’t Just Draw a Line in the Sand, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD
2016 The Road to Rio, Platform Gallery @ Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
Wide Eyed, with Nicole Dyer, Savery Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2015 My Mother Always Told Me I'd Grow Up To Be a Lawyer, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
Forwards / / Backwards, with Evelyn Hoffmann, Columbia Art Center, Columbia, MD
2014 The End of Spring, Big Law Country Club @ Silent Barn, Brooklyn, NY
Dreamhouse, Lil' Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2013 Golden Years, (e)merge Art Fair, Capitol Skyline Hotel, Washington, DC
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Miami is Nice, SpaceCamp, Baltimore, MD
Governor's Island Art Fair, Governor's Island, NY
It Was All A Dream, Hemphill Fine Arts at Carroll Square Gallery, Washington, DC
Vox VIII, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
Coldstream Homestead Montebello Sculpture Park, Baltimore, MD
Got It For Cheap, Art Athina, Athens, Greece
Ltd. Wear2, LVL3 Gallery, Chicago, IL
2016 The Last Supper, Turpentine Gallery, Oakland, CA
JRR and Roy, Signal, Brooklyn, NY
W e l c o m e W e l c o m e, Platform Gallery @ Alternative Art Fair, Baltimore, MD
Improbable, LVL3 Gallery, Chicago, IL
Deer in Headlights, Tastykake Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Consumption: Food as Paradox, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
2015 Blushing, Ballroom Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Yes Please Thank You, Platform Gallery, Baltimore, MD
SNTL FUNdraiser, The Windup Space, Baltimore, MD
Baltimore Flavor, MK Gallery, Vienna, VA
We Should See Each Other More Often, The Koban Project, Baltimore, MD
Black and Blue, Gallery 919, Wilmington, DE
2014 B¡NGO, Platform Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Get Small 2014, SessionSpace, Oakland, CA
Bawlmer, Crosstown Arts, Memphis, TN
All The Homies, Lil' Gallery @ Alternative Art Fair, Baltimore, MD
The End, Sophiajacob, Baltimore, MD
Baltimore Array, Carspecken-Scott Gallery, Wilmington, DE
Figure 50, www.figure50.com
Select 2014, Artisphere, Rosslyn, VA
Select 2014 Preview, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Shaper Image: Part II, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts @ artSTRAND, Provincetown, MA
This Red Door, This Red Door @ Reh Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Making It Out Alive, MICA, Baltimore, MD
Odd Logic, Current Space, Baltimore, MD
On/Loan, Area 405, Baltimore, MD
2012 Loaded Pistols, Gallery 500, Baltimore, MD
2011 Certainly So, Penthouse Gallery, Baltimore MD
Los Jaca Dos Americanos, Casa das Artes Criação Ambiente Utopias São Tomé, São Tomé
PRESS
2017 Amy Boone-McCreesh, "Exhibition Visit: Dave Eassa," Inertia Studio Visits, Baltimore, MD
Amber Eve Anderson, "Tamed Lot Turned Sculpture Park," BmoreArt, Baltimore, MD
2016 “This Week’s Must-See Art Events: The Art World Never Shuts Down,” Art F City
Julie Chu Cheong, "Wide Eyed at Savery Gallery," Title Magazine
"Interviews and Wide Eyed Exhibition at Savery Gallery," Fresh Paint Magazine
“Wide Eyed: Nicole Dyer and Dave Eassa at Savery Gallery,” The Art Blog
“Alumni Spotlight,” MICA Juxtapositions, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2015 “OSI Community Fellows,” Midday with Sheilah Kast, WYPR, Baltimore, MD
“Introducing OSI-Baltimore’s 2015 Community Fellows,” OSI Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
“OSI-Baltimore Gets Behind 10 Community Activists with $60,000 Grants,” Baltimore Magazine, Baltimore, MD
Cara Ober, "My Mother Always Told Me I'd Grow Up To Be A Lawyer," BmoreArt, Baltimore, MD
2014 J. Stokes Casey, "Bawlmer," Number: Eighty
Michael Farley, "So good it made nudes and oil paint feel fresh," BmoreArt, Baltimore, MD
Marie Claire Bryant, "Exhibit of the Week: Dave Eassa," Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore, MD
Michael Runyon, "Building a Dreamhouse, Mark by Mark," BmoreArt, Baltimore, MD
Mary Carole McCauley, "Art collector Mera Rubell tours 37 Baltimore art studios in 36 hours," The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, MD
2013 Ian Maclean Davis, "Garage Days," BmoreArt, Baltimore, MD
Cara Ober, "Baltimore Artists, Galleries, and Arts Organizations to exhibit at (e)merge art fair," BmoreArt, Baltimore, MD
Mac Falby, "Sloppy, Inexplicable, and Refreshingly Candid: Odd Logic at Current," BmoreArt, Baltimore, MD
Paddy Johnson, Whitney Kimball and Michael Farley, "We went to Baltimore: Jumbo Mumbo, Part Two," ArtFCity
Baynard Woods, "Baltimore and the so-called death of the gallery," CityPaper, Baltimore, MD
PUBLICATIONS
2016 Alt Esc., Vol. 3
2015 The Pinch Journal, Issue 35
2014 New American Paintings, No. 112
Studio Visit Magazine, Vol. 25
AWARDS
2017 - 2015 Baltimore Community Fellow, Open Society Institute (OSI), Baltimore, MD
2016 Top Ten Art Shows 2016: A Deer in Headlights, BmoreArt, Baltimore, MD
Top Ten Art Shows 2016: Free Space x BYA: A Way Out, City Paper, Baltimore, MD
Individual Artist Award, Creative Baltimore Fund, Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts (BOPA), Baltimore, MD
The Gutierrez Memorial Foundation Merit Award
2015 Individual Artist Award, Creative Baltimore Fund, BOPA, Baltimore, MD
Maryland State Arts Council Mini-Grant
Grit Fund Grantee, The Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
2014 Maryland State Arts Council, Individual Artist Award, Sculpture
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2018 Past-tense, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME
2015 The Kickapoo, Stueben, WI
The Parking Lot, Baltimore, MD
WORK EXPERIENCE
2017 Coldstream Homestead Montebello Sculpture Park Fellow, Baltimore, MD
Station North Arts and Entertainment District Mini-Golf Project, Baltimore, MD
2017 - 2015 Founder and Director, Free Space
2016 Soros Justice Fellowship Convening, Phoenix, AZ
The Contemporary Artist’s Retreat, Pearlstone Center, Reisterstown, MD
2015 Visiting Critic, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
ACRE Artist in Residence, Steuben, WI
