Eliza Youngman is a Bronx, NY based multidisciplinary visual artist with a focus in printmaking. Graduating from Oberlin College with a BA in Studio Art and Chinese language in 2025, she has also studied at the Arrowmont school of Arts and Crafts and National Central University in Taoyuan, Taiwan. She has received residencies both nationally and internationally, most recently as an OCREECAS fellow in Vilnius, Lithuania and as an inagural resident at the Twin Rivers Printmaking Studio in Vermont. Eliza is currently drawing a lot, building muscles as a butcher's apprentice, and working at Brand X Editions.
My work is founded in satire, critical inquisition, and a generous dose of hater-ade. Using downright ridiculous for this modern age mediums such as intaglio and lithograph printmaking and woodworking with hand tools, I produce narrative satirical commentary on humanity’s shortcomings. I am an attack artist, ranging from critiques of myself to critiques of power structures including religion, white feminism, government, and American tourism.
The art I make is certainly conspicuous- whether through scale and absurdity in woodworking or through edition size and color in printmaking. Conversely, the stories that these loud art objects tell masquerade as inconsequential and frivolous through use of humor, self-deprecation, and nasty, bright colors. I am working to reclaim the too-much aspects of capitalism and put my own un-ignorable garbage into the abyss. Attacking the subliminal messaging I receive, I give back narratives that attack existing power structures and my role within them.
