Eliza Be is a painter and multimedia visual artist. Her style is contemporary expressive that plays with the merge of simplicity and complexion, realism and abstract. Her subject matter reflects on virtues, the process of learning and overcoming, the self, diversity, feminism, pain and joy. In addition to acrylic paint, she uses many different mediums, incorporating paper, fabrics, chalk, sewing and more into her work. She uses found materials and often creates fresh canvases out of recycled fabrics. Being inspired by the world around her, she has made pigments and textures from river clay, collaged children’s drawings and inked paper towels from tattooing. Most of her work is abstracted portraiture, but she also paints abstract and abstracted landscapes.

Eliza has displayed her work at various galleries and venues around the Eugene/Springfield, Portland and Blue River areas since 2013. In 2018, she painted a mural and created a mosaic in Chicxulub Pueblo, Yucatán México. Afterwards, in Beaverton Oregon, she carried out a hands-on multidisciplinary art project with children at the Club K after school program about the arts, culture and language of Yucatán that she learned from her time in the Pueblo. More recenlty she painted a mural called “Take Flight” with Teak and Capsel Rock in downtown Eugene between 10th and 11th and Willamette. This piece represents the leap into the future we make when we bring different cultures and together. She has been published in Murze and Bleed magazine and was a participant in the juried Mayor’s Art Show in Eugene, Oregon in 2022. In the future, she looks forward to creating more murals, bodies of work and further expanding her creative process. She aims to create projects that give back to people in need and people who can greatly benefit from her art and message.

Eliza is currently applying to the Royal College of Art in London, UK. She is passionate about the genocide in Gaza and is sharing information on how to help. She is currently based in Portland, Oregon.

Solo exhibitions:

2024 Café Soriah, Eugene, OR

Equilibrium, portland, OR

Evolution Hair Design, Portland, OR

2023 Island Park Art Gallery, Springfield, OR

Wildling Collaborative arts, Eugene, OR

Evolution Hair Design, Portland, OR

2022 Mel’s Frame Shop and Gallery, Portland, OR

Walter’s Cultural Arts Center, Hillsboro, OR

Evolution Hair Design, Portland, OR

Red e Café Gallery, Portland, OR

2021-current Eugene Mindworks, Eugene, OR

2021 Evolution Hair Design, Portland, OR

Red e Café Gallery, Portland, OR

2020 Café Gertrude, Portland, OR
Beaverton Toyota, Beaverton, OR
2019 Seven Virtues Coffee Roasters, Portland, OR
Island Park Art Gallery, Springfield, OR
2018-current Common Bond Yoga Studio, Springfield, OR
2018 Farwest Fermentation, Eugene, OR
2017-2018 16 Tons Café, Eugene, OR

2017 Claim 52 Brewing, Springfield, OR
Oregon Wine Lab, Eugene, OR
Willamette Valley Cancer Institute and Research Center, Springfield, OR
Pizza Research Institute, Springfield, OR

Group exhibitions:

2025 Ford Gallery, Portland, OR

North, Portland, OR

Mel’s Frameshop & Gallery, Portland, OR

Nexus, Eugene, OR

2024 Ford Gallery, Portland, OR

Patricia Reser Center for the Arts, Beaverton, OR

Nexus, Eugene, OR

2023 Mel’s Frame Shop & Gallery, Portland, OR

2022 Mel’s Frame Shop & Gallery, Portland, OR

Art with Alejandro, Eugene, OR

2021 Mindworks, Eugene, OR

Las Laguna Art Gallery (online) Laguna Beach, CA

2018 Azul Gallery, Blue River, OR
New Zone Art Gallery, Eugene, OR
2015-2017 16 Tons Café, Eugene, OR
2013 New Zone Art Gallery, Eugene, OR

Collaborative Artwork Exhibitions:

2018-current Flowr of Lyfe, Eugene, OR

Murals/ Installations:

2024 “Take Flight” mural, Eugene, OR between 10th & 11th Willamette St.

2020 “Floral” mural, Eugene, OR

2018 “Ehecatl” mural, Chicxulub Pueblo, Yucatán, MX
“Ahua Can” mosaic, Chicxulub Pueblo, Yucatán, MX

Events:

2022 Eugene Holiday Market, Eugene, OR
2019-2020 Portland Saturday Market, Portland, OR
2019 Whitaker Community Market, Eugene, OR
2018 Azul Art Party, Blue River, OR
2016-2025 live painting (various events), Oregon

Projects:

2020 “Yucatán Project” with Club K After School Zone Students, Beaverton, OR

Publications:

2016 Bleed Magazine- interview, artworks (print)

2020 Murze Magazine- artworks (online)