Iris Eichenberg

Iris Eichenberg (born 1965) is a German post-war, contemporary artist, metalsmith, and educator. She is head of the Metalsmithing Department at the Cranbook Academy of Art.

Early life and education Born Göttingen, Germany, in 1965, Eichenberg graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam in 1994.

Career 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.

Of Eichenberg's art Dora Apel wrote that her works "convey a searching spirit that permeates Iris Eichenberg’s work, which often meditates on making home and finding our place in the world. Related in some way to the body, her constructions produce sensorial and emotional effects that stretch conventional boundaries to explore structures of feeling". Pink Years Later, Ornamentum Gallery, 2009 Real series, Ornamentum Gallery, 2015 The Domestic Plane: New Perspectives On Tabletop Art Objects, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Useless Utility, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, 2019

Selected group exhibits "Collect", Saatchi Gallery, London, 2009 "Setting the Table", Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, 2011 "MoreLand", Simone DeSousa Gallery, 2017

Awards 1994 — Gerrit Rietveld Academy Award 1999 — Herbert Hofmann Prize, (Schmuckszene Munich) 1999, 2001 — Residencies: European Ceramic Center in Den Bosch 2000 — Artist Stimulation Award from the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts 2002, 2005 —Incentive Grants from the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture