Eva Gabriella is a Mexican-American artist primarily focused in painting. Having grown up on the US/Mexico border, her work is influenced by personal experiences, history, and political policies of the region. Working through painting, drawing, and textiles she weaves personal memory and historical characters into the desert landscape—charting both physical and psychological spaces of the Borderlands.
Eva Gabriella is from Las Cruces, NM where she attended New Mexico State University and received a BFA in Studio Arts and a BA in Foreign Languages. In 2021, she earned her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Most recently, she was a recipient of the Chihuahuan Desert Cultural Fellowship, named a 2022 Emerging Artist of New Mexico grant and award recipient through the Harwood Art Center, a Meghan Furgueson Mraz award recipient through the Harwood Art Center, and participated as the Spring Artist in Residence at the Organ Mountain Desert Peaks National Monument. Eva Gabriella has exhibited nationally and internationally at the Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL; SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM; Museo del Ferrocaril, Santa Barbara, Chihuahua, Mexico; and Instituto de Lorenzo Medici, Florence, Italy.