
Eliza Williams was born in Eugene, Oregon in the United States in 1995. She started painting with acrylics in 2013. She attended Lane Community College at the age of 16, where she took a handful of art classes. She learned to explore and develop different styles of acrylic painting from a mentor project in a painting course she attended. Her largest source of knowledge with painting comes from studying and gaining inspiration from other artists’ techniques. A style that she has been pursuing is one of a contemporary figurative style that plays with the merge of simplicity and complexion.
In 2018 Eliza taught private painting and drawing lessons to an art student enrolled in a college graduate program at the University of Oregon. She also started an ongoing painting collaboration project with another artist.
In that same year, she was invited to a small Pueblo in Yucatán, Mexico where she painted a mural and created a mosaic. In 2020 She created a series of interdisciplinary projects for elementary school students focusing on the Yucatecan culture, wildlife, art and the Mayan language. She was able to carry this project out with a group of elementary school students in the Club K After School Program in Beaverton, Oregon.
Solo exhibitions:
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:
2022 Mel’s Frame Shop and 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:
2020 “Floral” mural, Eugene, OR
2018 “Ehecatl” mural, Chicxulub Pueblo, Yucatán, MX
“Ahua Can” mosaic, Chicxulub Pueblo, Yucatán, MX
Events:
2019-2020 Portland Saturday Market, Portland, OR
2019 Whitaker Community Market, Eugene, OR
2018 Azul Art Party, Blue River, OR
2016-2017 live painting (various events), Eugene, OR & Veneta, OR
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)