Eileen Maxson (born 1980) is an American interdisciplinary artist working at the confluence of video, installation and performance.
Born in 1980 Rockville Centre, New York, Maxson "is an interdisciplinary artist working at the confluence of video, performance, installation, and photography," also received her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2008, her BFA from the University of Houston in 2002 and attended the De Ateliers program[2] in Amsterdam, Netherlands from 2008-2010.
[3] Maxson's works have been seen at museums and microcinemas from Texas to Tel Aviv, including The Dallas Museum of Art,[4] TX; Anthology Film Archives, NY; Art in General, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Light Industry, Brooklyn; Museo Tamayo de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City; the New York Underground Film Festival; Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festivals and on the Internet.
In 2006, Maxson was called "...a transmedia Cindy Sherman for the MySpace generation..." by New York Village Voice media critic Ed Halter.
Maxson was awarded the prize in a ceremony presided over by former Texas Governor Ann Richards.