Eliot Z. Felde is an artist and designer working within the mediums of text and textile and is unfolding ideas related to maintenance and repair. His interventions and sculptures often play with concepts of durability and ephemerality. His work attempts to subvert paradigms of power and prestige with artifacts and installations that offer levity and improvisation.
Eliot co-founded an exhibition and performance space called fivehundredthousand in London from 2017 to 2019 in which he co-curated a monthly program of art shows and performances.
In Berlin he initiated a sewing studio for alterations and repairs called Rip und Zurück, which expanded to produce customized fabric installations and artworks for galleries and artists.
In 2020 he was the recipient of the Stiftung Kunstfonds grant in Berlin and published a cookbook titled Breadcrumb, which compiled artistic sandwich recipes made by 40 artists from around the world. The book was published by Onomatopee in the Netherlands.
Eliot studied documentary filmmaking at the Prague Film School in the Czech Republic and fashion design at the Massachusetts college of Art and Design. He graduated from the London College of Fashion earning a degree with first class honors in Menswear Design and Technology.
His work has been published in Vogue and GQ magazines, as well as exhibited in galleries and project spaces in London, Edinburgh and Berlin.