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
2026Garment/Art for the BodyMiddendorf Gallery
Baltimore, MD