Eva Smerekanych (b. 2000) is a ceramic figurative sculptor living in the Bay Area. Her artwork explores the internal tension of identity, heartache, and existential dread, all tied together with a touch of humor. She is inspired by the human body as the vessel through which we interact with the universe around us. Her work primarily explores the female figure through a mixture of hyperrealism and surrealism. Eva has always had a fascination for mathematics, cosmology, and philosophy. She often uses concepts from higher dimensional topology to influence her work, asking questions like “what does consciousness look like?” and “how can we visualize humans in higher dimensional space?” 

Eva attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she received a Bachelor of Science as a double major 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.