Candice Eira Hoffman Cramer (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist investigating themes of ethnobiology, mycology, and their confluence with the human condition. Born in Panamá, Panamá, she has lived all around the United States and calls Cape Girardeau, Missouri USA her hometown. She graduated Southeast Missouri State University in 2014 with a BFA in Painting with Honors and her MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in Multidisciplinary Art.
Candice Eira Hoffman Cramer (she/they)
b. 1987 Panamá, Panamá.
Lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland USA
EDUCATION
2022 Maryland Institute College of Art | MFA Multidisciplinary Art | Baltimore, Maryland
Emphasis in Intercultural Communication
Certificate in the College Teaching of Art
2014 Southeast Missouri State University | Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Jane Stephens Honors Scholar
BFA: Two Dimensional Option, Minor: Spanish
2011 Southeast Missouri State University | Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Intensive Course | Foreign Language and Culture | Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
MERITS, GRANTS, and AWARDS
2022 Gold-Stern Award for Emerging Artist | Maryland Institute College of Art | Baltimore, Maryland
2022 Friends of Mt. Royal Commencement Award | Maryland Institute College of Art | Baltimore, Maryland
2021 Graduate Research Development Grant | Maryland Institute College of Art | Baltimore, Maryland
2021 Mt Royal Community Fellowship | Maryland Institute College of Art | Baltimore, Maryland
2021 Graduate Merit Scholarship | Maryland Institute College of Art | Baltimore, Maryland
2019 Graduate Merit Scholarship | Maryland Institute College of Art | Baltimore, Maryland
2014 Jane Stephens Honor Program Scholar | Southeast Missouri State University | Cape Girardeau, Missouri
2012 Painting Merit Award | Southeast Missouri State University | Cape Girardeau, Missouri
2012 Drawing Merit Award | Southeast Missouri State University | Cape Girardeau, Missouri
2013 Endowed Scholarship | Southeast Missouri State University | Cape Girardeau, Missouri
2010 Alpha Mu Gamma Foreign Language Honors | Southeast Missouri State University | Cape Girardeau, Missouri
2009 Missouri Access Award | Southeast Missouri State University | Cape Girardeau, Missouri
2008 Missouri Academic Competitiveness Grant | Southeast Missouri State University | Cape Girardeau, Missouri
2007 Federal Pell Grant | Southeast Missouri State University | Cape Girardeau, Missouri
2007 Kiwanis Scholarship | Southeast Missouri State University | Cape Girardeau, Missouri
INTERNSHIP and PROJECTS
2022 HEMI/MICA Extreme Summer Arts Program/Internship | Johns Hopkins University and Maryland Institute College of Art |
Baltimore, Maryland | in collaboration with Jay Gould and Dr. Emmy Smith
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 Young Blood 2022 | Maryland Art Place | Baltimore, Maryland
2022 GRAD SHOW III | Decker Gallery | Maryland Institute College of Art | Baltimore, Maryland |
Curated by Kristen Hileman
2021 one wall, two wall, floor | Riggs Gallery | Maryland Institute College of Art | Baltimore, Maryland | curated by Luca Buvoli
2021 We Are Everywhere | Fox 2 Gallery | Maryland Institute College of Art | Baltimore, Maryland | curated by Liz Ensz
2020 House of Mount Royal | Planet Earth (Virtual) | Maryland Institute College of Art | Baltimore Maryland | curated by HoMR
2019 [email protected] | Leidy Gallery | Maryland Institute College of Art | Baltimore, Maryland | curated by Luca Buvoli
2017 July Artist: Candice EH Cramer| Café Art Space | South Royalton Market | South Royalton, Vermont
2016 Student Center Opening | Vermont Law School | South Royalton, Vermont
2016 The VLS Community | Royalton Memorial Library| South Royalton, Vermont
2014 Art for the Health of It | Transport Hallway of Southeast Health | Cape Girardeau, Missouri | curated by Caroline Kahler
2013 Assemblage Artist Cooperative Studio Launch | Cateye Glasses Studio, Cape Girardeau, Missouri
2012 Annual Student Juried Exhibition | Rosemary Berkel and Harry L. Crisp II Museum | Southeast Missouri State University
Curated by Becky Grass
2012 BFA Graduating Seniors Exhibition | River Campus Art Gallery | Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau,
Missouri
2012 Artist of the Month Exhibition | Pitter’s | Cape Girardeau, Missouri
2012 Keg Party: Mullet, Brown, and Hoffman | Buckner’s Brewing | Cape Girardeau, Missouri
2011 Annual Juried Student Exhibition | Rosemary Berkel and Harry L. Crisp II Museum | Cape Girardeau, Missouri | Curated
by Alex Lopez
2011 Salon des Refuses | Southeast Missouri State University | Cape Girardeau, Missouri
2008 Open Serena Night | Southeast Missouri State University | Cape Girardeau, Missouri
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2020 House of Mount Royal | Planet Earth (Virtual) | Maryland Institute College of Art
LECTURES and TALKS
2021 Episode 3: Candice Cramer | MO Mushrooms Podcast | Invited by Amy Shell | A conversation about foraging and John
Cage | May 9th, 2021 | Available via Spotify
2014 “Saturday Social: Encaustic (Hot Wax) Painting” | Arts Council of Southeast Missouri | Invited by Liz Montgomery | Cape
Girardeau, Missouri
2010 “Postmodernism in Latin American Art” | Alpha Mu Gamma Induction Ceremony | Invited by Dr. Debbie Lee-DiStefano
University Center | Southeast Missouri State University | Cape Girardeau, Missouri
2008 Artist Talk at Open Serena Night | Invited by Chris Wubbena | Southeast Missouri State University | Cape Girardeau,
Missouri
PRINTED PUBLICATIONS
2022 BmoreArt | “Artist & Amateur Mycologist” | Issue 14: Environment | Words by Alex Ebstein
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2021 MME x Studio Lighting Exchange | Maryland Institute College of Art | Baltimore, Maryland
2021 “Russula emetica et oblivion” | In collaboration with artist YoonJung Lee | Baltimore, Maryland
2008 “Public Health Video: Food Safety” | In collaboration with Environmental Health students | Southeast Missouri State
University | Cape Girardeau, Missouri
WEBSITE PUBLICATIONS
2020 Mount Royal School of Art Program Blog | SHARING WITH YOU work from Candice EH Cramer ('22)! | May 8th, 2020
www.mountroyalschoolofart.com
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
2009 Southeast Missouri State University Biology Department | Cape Girardeau, Missouri USA
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Works held in private collections in New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maryland, Virginia, Oklahoma, and Missouri
b. 1987 Panamá, Panamá.
Lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland USA
EDUCATION
2022 Maryland Institute College of Art | MFA Multidisciplinary Art | Baltimore, Maryland
Emphasis in Intercultural Communication
Certificate in the College Teaching of Art
2014 Southeast Missouri State University | Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Jane Stephens Honors Scholar
BFA: Two Dimensional Option, Minor: Spanish
2011 Southeast Missouri State University | Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Intensive Course | Foreign Language and Culture | Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
MERITS, GRANTS, and AWARDS
2022 Gold-Stern Award for Emerging Artist | Maryland Institute College of Art | Baltimore, Maryland
2022 Friends of Mt. Royal Commencement Award | Maryland Institute College of Art | Baltimore, Maryland
2021 Graduate Research Development Grant | Maryland Institute College of Art | Baltimore, Maryland
2021 Mt Royal Community Fellowship | Maryland Institute College of Art | Baltimore, Maryland
2021 Graduate Merit Scholarship | Maryland Institute College of Art | Baltimore, Maryland
2019 Graduate Merit Scholarship | Maryland Institute College of Art | Baltimore, Maryland
2014 Jane Stephens Honor Program Scholar | Southeast Missouri State University | Cape Girardeau, Missouri
2012 Painting Merit Award | Southeast Missouri State University | Cape Girardeau, Missouri
2012 Drawing Merit Award | Southeast Missouri State University | Cape Girardeau, Missouri
2013 Endowed Scholarship | Southeast Missouri State University | Cape Girardeau, Missouri
2010 Alpha Mu Gamma Foreign Language Honors | Southeast Missouri State University | Cape Girardeau, Missouri
2009 Missouri Access Award | Southeast Missouri State University | Cape Girardeau, Missouri
2008 Missouri Academic Competitiveness Grant | Southeast Missouri State University | Cape Girardeau, Missouri
2007 Federal Pell Grant | Southeast Missouri State University | Cape Girardeau, Missouri
2007 Kiwanis Scholarship | Southeast Missouri State University | Cape Girardeau, Missouri
INTERNSHIP and PROJECTS
2022 HEMI/MICA Extreme Summer Arts Program/Internship | Johns Hopkins University and Maryland Institute College of Art |
Baltimore, Maryland | in collaboration with Jay Gould and Dr. Emmy Smith
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 Young Blood 2022 | Maryland Art Place | Baltimore, Maryland
2022 GRAD SHOW III | Decker Gallery | Maryland Institute College of Art | Baltimore, Maryland |
Curated by Kristen Hileman
2021 one wall, two wall, floor | Riggs Gallery | Maryland Institute College of Art | Baltimore, Maryland | curated by Luca Buvoli
2021 We Are Everywhere | Fox 2 Gallery | Maryland Institute College of Art | Baltimore, Maryland | curated by Liz Ensz
2020 House of Mount Royal | Planet Earth (Virtual) | Maryland Institute College of Art | Baltimore Maryland | curated by HoMR
2019 [email protected] | Leidy Gallery | Maryland Institute College of Art | Baltimore, Maryland | curated by Luca Buvoli
2017 July Artist: Candice EH Cramer| Café Art Space | South Royalton Market | South Royalton, Vermont
2016 Student Center Opening | Vermont Law School | South Royalton, Vermont
2016 The VLS Community | Royalton Memorial Library| South Royalton, Vermont
2014 Art for the Health of It | Transport Hallway of Southeast Health | Cape Girardeau, Missouri | curated by Caroline Kahler
2013 Assemblage Artist Cooperative Studio Launch | Cateye Glasses Studio, Cape Girardeau, Missouri
2012 Annual Student Juried Exhibition | Rosemary Berkel and Harry L. Crisp II Museum | Southeast Missouri State University
Curated by Becky Grass
2012 BFA Graduating Seniors Exhibition | River Campus Art Gallery | Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau,
Missouri
2012 Artist of the Month Exhibition | Pitter’s | Cape Girardeau, Missouri
2012 Keg Party: Mullet, Brown, and Hoffman | Buckner’s Brewing | Cape Girardeau, Missouri
2011 Annual Juried Student Exhibition | Rosemary Berkel and Harry L. Crisp II Museum | Cape Girardeau, Missouri | Curated
by Alex Lopez
2011 Salon des Refuses | Southeast Missouri State University | Cape Girardeau, Missouri
2008 Open Serena Night | Southeast Missouri State University | Cape Girardeau, Missouri
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2020 House of Mount Royal | Planet Earth (Virtual) | Maryland Institute College of Art
LECTURES and TALKS
2021 Episode 3: Candice Cramer | MO Mushrooms Podcast | Invited by Amy Shell | A conversation about foraging and John
Cage | May 9th, 2021 | Available via Spotify
2014 “Saturday Social: Encaustic (Hot Wax) Painting” | Arts Council of Southeast Missouri | Invited by Liz Montgomery | Cape
Girardeau, Missouri
2010 “Postmodernism in Latin American Art” | Alpha Mu Gamma Induction Ceremony | Invited by Dr. Debbie Lee-DiStefano
University Center | Southeast Missouri State University | Cape Girardeau, Missouri
2008 Artist Talk at Open Serena Night | Invited by Chris Wubbena | Southeast Missouri State University | Cape Girardeau,
Missouri
PRINTED PUBLICATIONS
2022 BmoreArt | “Artist & Amateur Mycologist” | Issue 14: Environment | Words by Alex Ebstein
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2021 MME x Studio Lighting Exchange | Maryland Institute College of Art | Baltimore, Maryland
2021 “Russula emetica et oblivion” | In collaboration with artist YoonJung Lee | Baltimore, Maryland
2008 “Public Health Video: Food Safety” | In collaboration with Environmental Health students | Southeast Missouri State
University | Cape Girardeau, Missouri
WEBSITE PUBLICATIONS
2020 Mount Royal School of Art Program Blog | SHARING WITH YOU work from Candice EH Cramer ('22)! | May 8th, 2020
www.mountroyalschoolofart.com
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
2009 Southeast Missouri State University Biology Department | Cape Girardeau, Missouri USA
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Works held in private collections in New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maryland, Virginia, Oklahoma, and Missouri