Bio

Eddy A. López was born in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, in the midst of the Sandinista revolution.

He is an artist who works with archives and memories of war, transforming these into abstractions of vibrant colors, patterns, and shapes. López uses print media to create wide-scale collages that try to find meaning in a chaotic world.

López’s work has been exhibited at the the International Print Center New York, The Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, the Janet Turner Print Museum, the North American Print Biennial, ArtMiami, among others. His recent exhibitions include "X Factor: Latinx Artists and the Reconquest of the Everyday" at the USF Contemporart Art Museum, "Versos" at the Doris Ulmann Galleries at Berea College, and "Beautiful War" at the Carroll Gallery in Huntington, WV, and the Samek Art Museum in Lewisburg, PA. He is the recipient of various awards and grants including an Andrew Mellon Foundation Fellow. López’s work can be found in the collections of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Frost Art Museum, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Jaffe Center for Book Arts, and more.

López received an MFA in printmaking from the University of Miami, and a BFA in Painting and Printmaking as well as a BA in Art History from Florida International University. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Art at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

Artist's statement

Verso(s) is a print media exploration on the ethics of representation and the perils of nostalgia using photographs and writings from the 1979 Nicaraguan revolution and 1980s civil war. Using archival war photographs, the versos of these prints are used to obfuscate the horrific contents of the fronts, critiquing the nature of representations of war.