afra eisma (b.1993, NL)
aframarciel@gmail.com | instagram.com/aframarciel

upcoming

2025 Tokyo Gendai | Solo booth with No Mans Art Gallery | Tokyo, JP

selected solo exhibitions 

2025 hush | ICA San Diego | San Diego, US
2024 dandelions milk | No Mans Art Gallery | Amsterdam, NL
2023 hop to hope, Wälnö Aaltosen Museo,Turku, FI
2023 untitled miami, no mans art gallery, Miami, US
2023 splashdown tender, The Tetley, Leeds, UK
2021 Your silence will not protect you, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, NL
2020 Feline Whispers, 1646, Den Haag, NL

selected group exhibitions

2025 se faire plaisir | La Kunsthalle | Mulhouse, FR
2024 The New Mother Sculptures | Cobra Museum | Amstelveen, NL
2024 The Sea We Want To See | Korea Foundation | Seoul, SK
2024 Outside The Soup | W139 | Amsterdam, NL
2023 very small feelings, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Delhi, IN
2023 Textile now, Textile Museum, Tilburg, NL
2023 Imaginary friends, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcalona, SP
2023 Very Small Feelings, Dhaka Art Summit , Dhaka, BD
2023 – 2021 84 steps, Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, NL
2022 crying until laughing, Trafó Gallery in collaboration with 1646, Budapest, HU
2022 Multiplied voice, José de Guimarães International Arts Center, Guimarães, PT
2022 Schefferprijs, Dordrechts museum, NL
2022 Pink Prison, with Kubilay Mert Ural , Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn, NL (duo)
2022 NMAG, Mexico city, MX
2022 Sneakers Unboxed, Design Museum, Den Bosch, NL
2022 Art Brussel, Sam Samiee & Afra Eisma, No Mans Art Gallery, BE
2020 Utsuro Bune, garden lab, kyoto, JP (duo)
2020 Utsuro Bune, yotsuya unconfirmed studio, Tokyo, JP (duo)
2020 summershow, ellen de Bruijne projects, Amsterdam, NL
2020 unfair amsterdam, westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, NL
2019 The sticky beaver show, Paralel vienna, Vienna, AT
2019 Rooms of now #3, Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL
2019 De reconstructie, ABC Klubhuis, Antwerpen, BE
2019 Meta Darlings, No Mans Art Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2019 ondertussen, Stroom, Den haag, NL (duo)
2018 Curl Up, No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam, NL (duo)
2018 Unfair amsterdam,  zuiveringshal,  Amsterdam, NL
2018 Amnesia aesthetics of pingpong poetics, Opzicht, Stroom, The Hague,  NL
2018 ways of seeing the future, AMNUA, the one minutes, Nanjing CH
2018 Royal Painting Prize, Paleis op de Dam, Amsterdam, NL

Nominations

awarded international prize for international ceramic competition Japan, 2022
nominated scheffer prize for paiting, 2022
nominated royal painting prize, 2018
honourable mention, stroom award 2017

Residency

2022 Creative Residency Arita, JP

Collections

Kiran Nadar Museum, IN
Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, NL
De Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL
Textiel Museum, Tilburg, NL
SGABELLO collection, Amsterdam, NL
The finest art collection, Amsterdam, NL
Akzonobel, Amsterdam, NL

Other

Co curator of project space Billytown the Kitchen (2017-2019)
Co founder of Facetime Den Haag
Co founder of E.P.C. (Experimental Pizza Club)

No Mans Art Gallery Amsterdam https://www.nomansart.com/afra-eisma

website by Vera van de Seyp
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