Eva Smerekanych (b. 2000) is an American sculptor from Seattle, Washington. Her figurative ceramic sculptures explore the ways emotions can be interpreted as interactions with higher dimensional space. As a child, Eva was fascinated with the cosmos, spending hours staring at the stars and planets on camping trips with her father. She loved art, and began exploring the intersection of these two seemingly disparate fields as a teenager when she created a short film using hand-sculpted claymation to visualize four-dimensional mathematics.

Eva attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she earned a Bachelor of Science double majoring in Art & Design and Artificial Intelligence, with a minor in mathematics. She was awarded Cards Against Humanity’s Science Ambassador Scholarship for her original short film “Stepping into the Fourth Dimension” which used sculpture and stop-motion animation to explain higher dimensional mathematics to a broad audience. Throughout her time at MIT, Eva continued to be involved in the arts, with work featured in a group exhibition at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale. After graduating, Eva was selected as an artist-in-residence at Carole Feuerman Studios where she developed a body of small scale sculptures exploring hyperrealism, surrealism, and female strength. She currently lives and works in the Bay Area where she continues to develop her practice, pulling inspiration from physics, mathematics, and philosophy in her work. Using a mixture of hyperrealism and surrealism, Eva visualizes emotions in clay as distortions of the body in space and time.