Maryam Eisler is a London-based photographer and author.
Maryam’s photographic work is centred around the Sublime Feminine. She has had shows with Alon Zakaim, Tristan Hoare and Linley (London) as well as Harper’s (East Hampton) and Mucciaccia gallery (Rome). She has additionally shown at Richard Taittinger Gallery (New York), Photo London, Eye of the Collector (London), Dallas Art Fair, Unseen Amsterdam, Space Gallery (St Barth) Bermondsey Project Space (London), Art Marbella (Spain), MedBodrum Festival (Turkey), as well as Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips (London curated exhibitions).
Maryam is Chief Contributing Editor to LUX magazine, a Condé Nast title; she has also contributed photographically and editorially to Vanity Fair ('On Art'), Harpers Bazaar Art, Harpers Bazaar Interiors and Vogue Arabia.
Maryam’s book, Voices: East London, for which she is both author and photographer was published in 2018. She has edited several other Thames and Hudson titles to include Sanctuary: Britain's Artists and their Studios, Art Studio America: Contemporary Artist Spaces and London Burning: Portraits from a Creative City among many more.
Maryam's latest venture is in film – as creative producer to Oscar Winning director, Tim Yip's latest venture, 'Love Infinity' launched on Mubi in March 2022.
Maryam sits on the advisory board of Photo London; she is also a nominator for the Prix Pictet photography prize and a judge for the Louis Roederer Photography Prize for Sustainability.
Maryam co-chaired Tate’s MENAAC (Middle East North Africa Acquisitions Committee) for ten years, from 2010 to 2020. She was a trustee of the Whitechapel gallery from 2015 to 2020 and is a former member of the Guggenheim Middle East Circle. Maryam is a founding member of the British Museum CaMMEA group; she also sits on the advisory council of the Delfina Foundation.
Maryam is a graduate of Wellesley College and Columbia University.
Extract from Tim Yip’s documentary “Love Infinity”. Maryam Eisler and Meihui Liu, Co-Executive Producers.
Shot at Alon Zakaim Fine Art during the “If Only These Walls Could Talk” exhiition.
‘Et Dieu Crea La Femme’, group show opening night courtesy of Tom Wierzbiansky , with works by Maryam Eisler, Pandemonia and Charlotte Colbert , November 2019 at Catherine Prevost , Sloane Street , London.
EXHIBITIONS
August 2024
Artist Portraits from Confined Artists: Portraits & Interviews from Lockdown 2020
LongHouse Reserve
East Hampton, NY
American Vintage
The Ranch, Montauk
June 2024
Eye of the Collector
London
May 2024
MedBodrum Festival (Turkey)
Co-curated by Fru Tholstrup & Jane Neal
Tete-a-Tete
curated by Patricia Loewe
Mucciaccia Gallery, Rome
March 2024
Seeing Red
co-curated by Fru Tholstrup and Jane Neal, Phillips, London
February 2024
Intimate Landsapes
Mucciaccia gallery, Rome
November 2023
Ignis Avis Linea
Somerset, UK
Curated by Carrie Scott
June 2023
Maryam Eisler & Henry Lohmeyer - Dialogues
Volta Art Fair, Basel & VR Exhibition
May 2023
EYE OF THE COLLECTOR
Two Temple Place, London
February 2023
Art on a Postcard International Women’s Day Auction
2-24 November 2022
If Only These Walls Could Talk
Alon Zakaim Fine Art, Cork Street, London
11–14 May 2022
EYE OF THE COLLECTOR
Two Temple Place, London
December 2021 – January 2022
The Now
AUBAINE, Dover Street, London
4–28 November, 2021
ONCE UPON A TURQUOISE PAST
LINLEY Belgravia, 60 Pimlico Road, London SW1W 8LP
7–21 June, 2021
SOTTO IL SOLE DI CAPRI
Catherine Prevost Design, London
May, 2021
BEAUTIFUL TALES (Part II)
Old Spitalfields Market
December, 2020
BEAUTIFUL TALES (Part I)
Old Spitalfields Market
11–24 November, 2020
CHRISTIE'S: WE ARE ALL BEIRUT
Online auction
21 July – 10 August, 2020
IMAGINING TINA:
A DIALOGUE WITH EDWARD WESTON
Online solo exhibition at FluxZone Gallery, Mexico City
1 April – 1 July, 2020
CONFINED ARTISTS – FREE SPIRITS: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM LOCKDOWN
Online portrait gallery and global artist diary entry
20 February, 2020
EROTIC AUCTION
Group Exhibition
December 2019
O FOR ORIGIN
Group Exhibition
De Pury at Asprey, London
14–18 November 2019
ET DIEU CREA LA FEMME
Group Exhibition with Pandemonia and Charlotte Colbert
Catherine Prevost Designs, London
24 October – 20 December 2019
THE FEMALE LENS
Group Exhibition
Richard Taittinger Gallery, New York
29 July – 3 August 2019
ALL ABOUT EVE
Group Exhibition with Kamran Diba
19 April – 12 May 2019
THE FIGHT
Group Exhibition
Kunstgenerator, Geneva
6 February – 2 March 2019
IMAGINING TINA:
A DIALOGUE WITH EDWARD WESTON
Solo Exhibition
February 2019
VFD Window display
No Guts No Glory
VFD, London
10 January – 2 March 2019
VFD10 PUNISH THE STREETS
Group Exhibition
New Art Projects, London
18 – 30 September 2018
ADVENTURE & OBSESSION
Solo Exhibition
Project Space, Bermondsey, London
26 May – 20 June 2018
THE SUBLIME FEMININE
Solo Exhibition
Harper's Books, Easthampton, NY
March 2018
LIGHTBOX STREET POSTERS
Installation organised by Mustafa Hulusi
Project Space, Shoreditch London
21 – 24 September 2017
UNSEEN FAIR 2017
Group Exhibition
Tristan Hoare London
6 – 9 April 2017
DALLAS ART FAIR 2017
Group Exhibition
Tristan Hoare London
March 2017
SEARCHING FOR EVE IN THE AMERICAN WEST
Solo exhibition
Space SBH, St Barthélemy, FWI
1 – 12 November 2016
SEARCHING FOR EVE IN THE AMERICAN WEST
Solo exhibition
Tristan Hoare, London
18 – 22 May 2016
PHOTO LONDON 2016
Group Exhibition
Tristan Hoare, London
Selected Publications
2023
Ignis Avis Lineae, Limited edition book
2022
If Only These Walls Could Talk, Limited edition book
2021
Once Upon A Turquoise Past, Limited edition book
CAPRI – Melancolie in Settembre, Limited edition book
2020
#14 – Photo London, Online magazine.
2019
Imagining Tina: A Dialogue with Edward Weston, with essay contributions by Kim Weston and Martin Axon. (available through Tristan Hoare in London and Harper’s Books in the US ).
2018
The Sublime Feminine, with a forward by Hannah Barry (available through Tristan Hoare in London and Harper’s Books in the US ).
2017
Searching for Eve in the American West, with an essay by Anthony Downey
2017
Voices: East London, Thames & Hudson/TransGlobe Publishing Ltd.
2015
London Burning: Portraits from a Creative City, Thames & Hudson/TransGlobe Publishing Ltd.
2014
Sanctuary: Britain’s Artists and their Studios, Thames & Hudson/TransGlobe Publishing Ltd.
2013
Art Studio America: Contemporary Artist’s Spaces, Thames & Hudson/TransGlobe Publishing Ltd.
2010
Unleashed: Contemporary Art from Turkey, Thames & Hudson/TransGlobe Publishing Ltd.
Art & Patronage: The Middle East, Thames & Hudson/TransGlobe Publishing Ltd.