Eleanor Koster (b. Minneapolis, MN), is a research-driven artist and designer based in Baltimore, MD. She practices her relationships with fiber and wood through bending, joining, and plying. She creates sculptures and furniture that ask questions through digital and traditional technologies for crafting textiles and wood work. The languages of craft and computing, intersecting to tell stories of queer longing and otherness. Her practice is materially motivated, considering the material and its environment as collaborators. Her work is highly influenced by growing up in urban centers of the American Midwest.


Eleanor received a BFA in Fiber from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has exhibited in the United States and internationally as a resident artist at Periplus in Alkianos, Greece. She is a teacher and technician at community maker spaces in Baltimore and a member of PULP artist collective which held its inaugural exhibition at Area 405 gallery in October, 2025.  



Contact: EleanorKosterStudio@gmail.com




Selected Exhibtions


2026Shit ShowXOXO Gallery
Baltimore,MD
2025Pitted: Home in the Heart of an EmprireAREA 405
Baltimore,MD
a FairXOXO Gallery, Baltimore,MD
Periplus Resident ExhibitionAlikianos High School
Alikianos, Greece
r/DesirepathMount Royal Station
Baltimore,MD
2024HearthGateway Gallery
Baltimore,MD
A Patchwork LifeMiddendorf Gallery Baltimore,MD
Something so Light and HeavyMiddendorf Gallery
Baltimore,MD
2023It Feels Right to MeMiddendorf Gallery
Baltimore,MD
2023 Juried Undergraduate ExhibitionDecker Gallery
Baltimore,MD
Still ProcessingMiddendorf Gallery Baltimore,MD
2022We Are EverywhereFox 2 Gallery Baltimore,MD
Something BigMiddendorf Gallerydre,MD
2022 Juried Undergraduate ExhibitionDecker Gallery
Baltimore,MD


Residencies + Fellowships + Workshops


2026Bygones:Combs, Spoons, TreenPenland School of Craft taught by Charles Thompson
2025Periplus Artist Residency in Material ExplorationAlikianos, Greece

2024Up/Start Venture Competion FellowMICA Center for Creative Entrepreneurship

Re-Imagining the EverydayPenland School of Craft taught by Osamu Sassa

Publications


Forthcoming1+0=weftNO MASTERS NO GRIDS edited by Liz Ensz

2025Queer inhumanisms and Kinship with ObjecthoodFifth Wheel Press

Curation


2026Strings AttachedMiddendorf Gallery
Baltimore, MD


 r/Desirepath
Eleanor Koster & Sofia Klimkowski Arango


May, 2025

Mount Royal Station
1400 Cathedral St.
Baltimore, MD


~ Dedicated to the paths that humans prefer, rather than the paths that humans create ~

Through the physical and digital landscape, we interweave ourselves into a queered history of the loom, just another meeting of warp to weft. In reflecting on our experiences growing up in the American South and Midwest, we find that we must trailblaze our own definitions of consumption and desire. The work reflects through selfies, soul connections, and spacial interruptions/entanglements. Being sexy and shy and insecure and hungry, we navigate between the public and the private orchestrating social cues/queues. We bastardize materials found within the commons: the sidewalk, the field, the internet, the bedroom to orient towards queer daydreaming. The path we’ve found has no definitives, no ends in-sight, just continued discovery and renewal.

We invite you to forge your own path, and experience wandering into what is rooted at your core. 




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