Eddy Lopez knew from a very young age that he was interested in art.

"Growing up in Nicaragua under the revolution, I was always picking up pencils, drawing on my parents' walls. I knew it was something I had to do," Lopez said.


Lopez was born in Nicaragua and moved to the United States when he was 9 years old. He's now an assistant professor of art at Bucknell University in Lewisburg.

WNEP ABC 16, segment, September 2023

A Lewisburg artist won top honors in the State Museum of Pennsylvania’s competition Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2023.

Eddy López, an associate professor of art at Bucknell University, placed first in the category of “work on paper” for his piece called “NYTimes BLM.” Winners, who were chosen from 86 finalists selected from 1,850 entries representing 29 Pennsylvania counties, will have their work displayed at the State Museum, 300 North St., Harrisburg, through January.

The Daily Item, article, September 2023

Bucknell University Art and History Professor Eddy López placed first in the State Museum of Pennsylvania competition in the category of “work on paper” for his piece called NYTimes BLM.

The Standard Journal, article, September 2023

Bucknell University art professor and artist Eddy López, 45, was selected as one of 86 finalists for the 56th annual “Art of the State” exhibition, which will open at noon on Sept. 10 at the State Museum of Pennsylvania, 300 North St., Harrisburg.

The News Item interview, August 18, 2023.

This week on Hello Print Friend Miranda speaks with Eddy A López. We talk about his childhood growing up during the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua and seeing art and prints around him as a form of political activism, how that changed when he came to the US at 9 years old, and taking the dehumanizing data of war and imbuing it with artistic meaning.

Episode 157, Eddy A. López

En el programa de hoy Reinaldo estará conversando con Eddy López artista del grabado y educador nicaragüense, originario de la ciudad de Matagalpa. Eddy nació en tiempos de guerra creciendo durante una transición política entre la dictadura y el triunfo de la revolución sandinista. Desde pequeño encontró la inspiración entre los grandes murales que ilustraban iconos revolucionarios. Gracias a una colección de libros que sus padres tenían, Eddy se fue adentrando en el mundo gráfico y el dibujo, iniciando esta gran travesía que lo llevaría a explorar los conflictos armados y la cruda realidad de aquellos afectados por la guerra que muchas veces son ocultados por los medios de educación.

episodio 51, Eddy A. López

Eddy A. Lopez, Artist and Assistant Professor of Art at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA, speaking about his work in connection with an exhibition titled, "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: a Solo Exhibition by Eddy A. Lopez" at the Haas Gallery at Bloomsburg University.

WVIA ArtScene Interview with Erika Funke WVIA NPR, March 28, 2022.

PBS TV interview with Erika Funke.
Keystone Edition Arts will introduce you to some of the Hispanic artists that now call northeastern and central Pennsylvania home, and learn how they share their heritage in a variety of art forms.
PBS Keystone Arts: Hispanic Heritage Month. WVIA PBS, Oct. 18, 2021.

The Northern Illinois University Art Museum’s exhibition Refuge and Refugee as well as The Art of Surviving: The Journey of the Karen Refugees in Illinois organized by the Center for Burma Studies at NIU opens in the Art Museum’s Altgeld Hall galleries Tuesday, August 24 and runs through November 12. The exhibitions examine refugee experiences through recreations of home, glimpses of refugee camps, artifacts, textiles, oral histories and photographs as well as contemporary art media grappling with international refugee and immigration crises.
NIU Today

Artlink Contemporary Gallery is pleased to present the 41st National Print Exhibition, showcasing 60 contemporary printmakers working across all printmaking mediums, including intaglio, lithograph, relief, screenprint, monoprint, letterpress, book art, digital print, print installation and printed stop-motion animation.
Artlink Contemporary

The Central Academy of Fine Arts International Printmaking Research Institute, with the strong support of the leaders of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and friends from the international printmaking field, will be holding the unveiling ceremony as scheduled, which is also a grand event for printmakers worldwide.
International Academic Printmaking Alliance

A Peculiar Proximity to Spiritual Mysteries showcases various key contemporary works from the permanent collection of the Zuckerman Museum of Art. Curated by artist Pablo Helguera and Ginger Wolfe-Suarez, this experimental exhibition draws on many rare works of art as well as some that have never been exhibited. The exhibition features alternative methods of display, supplementary learning experiences, and sound recordings. Preparation for this exhibition included research and curatorial assistance by Michelle Lopez, registrar/collections manager, as well as collective dialogue and collaboration with the ZMA staff.

Zuckerman Museum of Art

"“La Prensa-Resistencia Ciudadana” from Eddy Lopez is a work on paper announcing a call to arms."

Review: Art of the State, by Bob MacGinnes. The Burg, Oct. 6, 2020.

*Area artists win in state competition, share stories of diversity. *
Two Valley artists have won first place in separate categories of the State Museum of Pennsylvania’s Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2020 contest.
Sanh Tran, of Milton, placed first in the photography category and Eddy Lopez, of Lewisburg, won first place for his work on paper.
The Daily Item, Sunbury, PA, Sep. 20, 2020

Un grabado artístico abstracto, compuesto por 15 portadas del diario LA PRENSA agrupadas en una sola imagen, realizado por el artista nicaragüense Eddy López, fue premiado el pasado 13 de septiembre como el primer lugar en la categoría de trabajo en papel entre más de cien obras artísticas que compitieron en el concurso Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2020, una exposición anual realizada por el Museo Estatal de Pensilvania, Estados Unidos, desde 1968.
La Prensa Nicaragua

Juried by Lauren Frances Adams, Clara Lieu, Ron Tarver.

Art of the State is an annual juried exhibition that has been showcasing the work of Pennsylvania’s artists at The State Museum of Pennsylvania since 1968. The body of art that has been exhibited reflects over a half-century of creative endeavor in the Keystone State. Through the years, exhibitors have shared their ideas and engaged viewers in the categories of painting, photography, craft, sculpture, and work on paper.

State Museum of Pennsylvania

An umbra is the deepest, darkest part of a shadow. During the selection process, Saar described how she was “immediately taken by the number of prints that reflected the somber atmosphere of our times,” which made the metaphor of the umbra a unifying concept. Through technically dynamic approaches to print in sculpture, animation, books, and paper, the works respond to contemporary and often historically pervasive concerns around race, gender, labor, and land. Saar reminds us that “some works are angry, some pained and some are healing and hopeful, but all are passionate about the precarious state of our troubled times.” These artists employ methods of response and resistance that conjure the hope that this precarity is temporary. The pattern of history has often shown dark periods preceding periods of enlightenment, indicating that these artistic mediations are paving the way toward a brighter future—one that is more just, balanced, and inclusive.

IPCNY

Curated by Davis-Moye & Associates.

Catalog

Adjudicated by internationally-recognized artist Jane Hammond, this year’s Juried Members Exhibition is a selection of 49 diverse artworks chosen for exhibition from entries submitted by the SGCI membership. Technically and conceptually wide-ranging, the show offers an impressive visual experience celebrating the graphic arts.

Gallery at UTA

Les mille et une Europes, Biblioteca de Andalucía, Granada, ES. Curated by Jose Manuel Darro, Francoise Souchet.

Es Andalucia

All art-making implies an act of transforming - changing materials from one thing to another-increasing or decreasing the voltage of the materials- changing the form, appearance or character of these materials.

The Transformers in this exhibition are artists who begin with a recognizable object as the raw material for their act of transformation. The enhancement or subversion of the original object can involve adding layers of meaning or complexity to the object or can reverse the original intent of that object, whether it be as tangible and indestructible as a massive rubber tire or as ephemeral as a virtual image.

The Dalton Gallery welcomes guest curator Dorothy Moye and the work of Temme Barkin-Leeds, Chakaia Booker, Sonya Clark, Elyse Defoor, Bryant Holsenbeck, Jess Jones, Susan Lenz, Eddy Lopez, Pam Longobardi, Amy Orr, Joe Peragine, Karen Searles, Gregor Turk, Naomi Wanjiku Gakunga, and John Westmark.

Dalton Gallery

Organizer: Deborah Cornell and Barbara Putnam

This portfolio will explore geographic and historical traces of the interdependent biomes of desert and sea as they are transformed by human actions and echoed in cultural structures. The artists invited will represent varying geographic areas, resulting in differing perceptions. The curators will create a site on the internet where each artist may contribute sources they would like to share – articles, poetry, scientific findings or resources relevant to their area, exploring ramifications of ocean and desert from their particular view.

SGCI Entry

Invitational print exchange portfolio and group exhibition that brings together printmakers across Latin America and the United States. Organized by Jorge Eliécer Rodríguez, Associate Professor of Fine Arts at the Universidad de Caldas, Colombia,

Catalog

Artist books take many forms – from handmade and lusciously tactile to linear and informative, abstract and questioning to sculptural and monumental. This juried show celebrates the book with a wildly varied collection of inventive and spectacular work that challenges expectations.

The Book as Art: Illuminated

Entries were hand-pulled prints, screen prints, digital prints, photographs, and three-dimensional work with print components.

Washington Printmakers

Organizers: Sean P. Morrissey and Lenore Thomas

This portfolio reflects the dynamic field of printmaking by inviting artists who fluidly work across or at the edge of disciplines to apply their aesthetic and conceptual vision to the multiple, representing the ability of the print to move from one point to another in terms of execution and definition. Utilizing their unique skill set combined with the aforementioned attributes, the artists in this portfolio explore the history and future of printmaking while redefining the possibilities of what a contemporary print can be. Non-traditional media, digital processes, and otherwise divergent approaches are highlighted while contributing to the growth, revitalization, and solidification of the discipline of printmaking.

Uncertainty Principle

Organized by Alexander Campos, Executive Director & Curator, The Center for Book Arts

The SWEAT Broadsheet Collaboration is a collaborative effort of South Florida artists and writers. The 46 artists and 40 participating writers were interested in the intersection of their respective genres – that is, artists interested in text and book arts, and poets and fiction writers attracted to visual images. Through a series of planned meetings, artists and writers from Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties met, shared their work and began to collaborate to create varied and vibrant limited edition artworks.

Center for Book Arts

Curated by Dennis Michael Jon, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings, Minneapolis Institute of Arts

The North American Print Biennial, can answer any and all questions about the state of printmaking today…printmaking is alive, well, and thriving, and the proof is amply evident and on view in Gallery 808. -Roberta Waddell, Curator Emerita, The New York Public Library

www.bostonprintmakers.org/biennials/bie…

Girl-conceived and boy-powered, this brawny group show flexes muscular works produced by male artists who are current University of Miami students, alums or professors. On view you'll discover works in diverse media including video, installation, silk screen, painting, and sculpture by Remy Bordas, Ryan Farrell, Eddy A. López, Ralph Provisero, Colin Sherrell and Kyle Trowbridge.
Miami New Times

Clang Boom Steam, curated by Milly Cardoso, is a showcase of works by UM students, alumni and professors — all of them men.
Palm Beach Arts Paper

International Print Exchange and Traveling Exhibition, 2013.
Dialgos y Interpretaciones

University of Miami Wynwood Art Gallery presents the Fifth Annual Cane Art Fair. In honor of Art Basel Miami Beach, the Art and Art History Department presents the 5th Annual Cane Fair featuring artwork of UM students earning their Masters in Fine Arts. Works on display include photography, sculpture, ceramics, painting and more. This exhibition will run from December 5, 2012 – January 25, 2013.
UM Cane Art Fair

When the newspaper industry finally crumples to death what will people roll up and smack their bad dogs with? Laptops? No matter. Even when the presses for the New Times choke to a halt, the art of printmaking will survive.
New Times Blog

When the newspaper industry finally crumples, clogging gutters along the road of history, what will people roll up and smack their dogs with when they’re bad? Laptops? No matter, because even when the presses for the last daily (or weekly) choke to a halt, the art of printmaking will live on.
Miami New Times

The University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Gallery presents its first Works on Paper exhibition at UM Wynwood Project Space. This exhibition will showcase prints and drawings on paper that are not photographic or completely digitally based. This exhibition will run the entire month of September and October. In celebration of the opening there will be a reception on October 8 from 2 p.m. – 9 p.m. Artists in the exhibition include Brian Curtis, Lise Drost, Thomas Engleman, Eddy Lopez, Barbara Scheer, Abraham Camayd, Tom Virgin, Lani Shapton, Kari Snyder, and Kyle Trowbridge.
Works on Paper

The Bakehouse Art Complex (BAC), a non-profit arts organization, celebrating its 25th anniversary year, on Mar. 12 opened its first, juried printmaking exhibit, “Impressed,” with the works of 27 emerging and mid-career, contemporary printmakers.
Community Newspapers

Lopez's wallpaper made of teeny composite portraits of Iraqi war dead vibrates with intimacy and monumentality.
Miami New Times