Ella Hepner

Hepner is a painter and printmaker born and based in Brooklyn, NY. She has been creating her whole life. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon University’s Interdisciplinary Degree Program in 2018, where she studied Global Studies, Hispanic Studies and Fine Arts. This program led her to study contemporary art in Havana, Cuba, where she lived on-and-off since. The last few years have found her in Pittsburgh; Las Cruces, NM; Havana, Cuba and New York City. Hepner has shown work in these cities, both in person and virtually during the pandemic.

2018: Carnegie Mellon University B.H.A. (Bachelor of Humanities and Arts) Global Studies, Hispanic Studies, and Painting

2016 Fall: University of La Havana

2012, 2013 Summer: School of the Art Institute of Chicago

2023 Nocturne (Group Show), 345 Gallery, Manhattan, NY

2022 “Six Artists I Discovered at Gowanus Open Studios”, Hyperallergic Magazine

2022 New Contemporaries (Group Show), Dodomu Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2022 Artist of the Month, Camelback Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

2022 Polysemy Gala: Dual Meanings In Contemporary Art (Group Show), Culturally Arts Collective, Austin, TX

2022 Neighbors, Brooklyn Neighborhood Arts, Brooklyn, NY

2020 The Feminine Agenda (Group Show), Women’s Work Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY

2020 Ritual, Art Obscura, Las Cruces, NM

2019 Print Show, Unsettled Gallery, Las Cruces, NM

2019 In Between Trips to the Bathroom, Late Space, Pittsburgh, PA

2018 Cover Art for Community Literacy Journal, Issue 13.1, Fall: Special Issue on Community Listening

2018 Dot Gov: CMU Senior Group Show, Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

2018 The line goes on and on, Frame Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

2017 90: Impressions of Cuba, Frame Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA