Biography

ELIZABETH HOAK DOERING (1966)
Philadephia, USA

Elizabeth Hoak Doering was born in Philadelphia, USA in 1966. She studied Anthropology at Amherst College and at the University of Nairobi and finished her MFA in sculpture at Boston University.

After graduate school Doering won a Fulbright scholarship to continue her research in culture and the visual arts in Cyprus. There her work began to look at and include issues of contemporary politics. In 2002 she participated in the Armenian Biennial by invitation through Garo Keheyan. The project she took on in Armenia was a departure from all previous work: she began to use self-designed and built apparatuses that made drawings and in so doing re-oriented herself in relation to the production of visual art and sound.

Elizabeth Hoak Doering has lived and worked in Nicosia since 2006. Her work takes place individually and in collaboration with other artists in Cyprus, France and Armenia and published texts deal with graffiti (mark-making) in the context of visual culture, gender and political identity. Solo shows include things, witnesses!, Nicosia Municipal Art Center, Cyprus; Sculpture for C.R., Philadelphia International Airport; Church of Memory, Monagri Centre for Contemporary Art, Limassol, Cyprus, Tribute to Joe Burk, University of Pennsylvania and Stream of Consciousness, Philadelphia Art Alliance. Doering’s participation in group exhibitions include Pharos=10, Nicosia Municipal Art Centre; News from No Where, Walthamstow, London; Stihl Gallery, Gyumri, Armenia; Altered Eden, Brattleboro Museum, Vermont, USA and ARTwork, Tufts University, Massachusetts, USA. Her work is in public and private collections in the USA, Cyprus and Armenia.