Eileen Ferara is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose work is focused on our human relationship to the environment. Drawing inspiration from the natural world, she creates paintings, paper installations and sculptures based on observation, research and imagination. Ferara’s work has been included in many exhibits in the United States. In 2022 she received a Jersey City Arts and Culture Individual Artist Fellowship, and a Puffin Foundation grant. Ferara completed an artist residency at Fire Island National Seashore in New York and was a 2019 artist-in-residence with the Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City. Her work is in the collection of the William Paterson University Galleries, Memorial Sloan Kettering, The King St Stephens Museum of Hungary, and numerous private collections. She has an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Born in the Bronx, Ferara currently lives and works in Jersey City.