Eli Craven

Promoted to Associate Professor
Patti & Rusty Rueff School of Design, Art, and Performance
ejcraven@purdue.edu

Eli Craven received his master’s in fine arts from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where he was a Block Grant Fellow. Prior to joining Purdue, he was adjunct faculty at UIUC and a resident artist at the Tarble Arts Center at Eastern Illinois University.

Craven’s research resides in the critical investigation of the image and its relationship to ideologies of sexuality, desire, and death. He works conceptually with photographic images, both found and original, by re-evaluating the physical and psychological potential of the picture through sculptural and digital interventions.

Craven’s work is exhibited nationally and internationally. Most recently at Feinkunst Krüger Gallery in Hamburg, Germany and the Biennial of Contemporary Art Maia in Portugal. His work has also been widely published. Selected publications and clients include Philosophie Magazine, The Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Gestalten Publishing Berlin, Penguin Random House Barcelona, and The Paris National Opera.