Evi Ellias (MFA Calarts Set Design & Integrated Media 2013) is a Production Designer for film, television, commercials, music videos theater and immersive sculptural installations. Her work is influenced by the colorful, fantastical and oversized films of her youth such as “Beetleguise”, “Honey I shrunk the Kids” and “The Baron Von Munchausen” and focuses on the collective imagination.
Ellias was born and raised in Cambridge MA. She simultaneously attended Tufts Unversity (BA- Art History 2006) and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts (BFA- Sculptural Installation & Animation 2007). Upon graduation she moved to California to pursue her sculptural installation and set design work with organizations such as Goforaloop Gallery, SomaArts, Intersection for the Arts and The Julia Morgan Theater. She transitioned into film by Production Designing her first feature, “Red Ice” in 2008 and has been working in film ever since.
She has won multiple accolades for her work including a 2014 Silver Lion at the Cannes Lion Festival for “The Oasis” a short film directed by Raúl B. Fernandez as part of the Mofilm/Cornetto “Cupidity Campaign” as well as for her work on “The Lepidoctor” a short directed by Jon Barenboim which was awarded – Best Production Design and Best Film at the L.A. Reel Film Festival 2012.
Ellias has shown and produced her sculptural installation work in Boston at the First Night Festival, The Museum of Fine Arts, and at The Museum of Science’s “Let’s Talk About Food Festival”, in New York at the American Museum of Natural History in San Francisco at The Green Festival, Goforaloop Gallery, Intersection for the Arts, SomArts and the Julia Morgan Theater, in Los Angeles at The Santa Monica Playhouse, CalArts, the Disney Lund Theater and internationally as an invited artist in Mexico at the ComuArte Conference for International Women in Art and at the Prague Quadrennial among others.
Ellias was born and raised in Cambridge MA. She simultaneously attended Tufts Unversity (BA- Art History 2006) and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts (BFA- Sculptural Installation & Animation 2007). Upon graduation she moved to California to pursue her sculptural installation and set design work with organizations such as Goforaloop Gallery, SomaArts, Intersection for the Arts and The Julia Morgan Theater. She transitioned into film by Production Designing her first feature, “Red Ice” in 2008 and has been working in film ever since.
She has won multiple accolades for her work including a 2014 Silver Lion at the Cannes Lion Festival for “The Oasis” a short film directed by Raúl B. Fernandez as part of the Mofilm/Cornetto “Cupidity Campaign” as well as for her work on “The Lepidoctor” a short directed by Jon Barenboim which was awarded – Best Production Design and Best Film at the L.A. Reel Film Festival 2012.
Ellias has shown and produced her sculptural installation work in Boston at the First Night Festival, The Museum of Fine Arts, and at The Museum of Science’s “Let’s Talk About Food Festival”, in New York at the American Museum of Natural History in San Francisco at The Green Festival, Goforaloop Gallery, Intersection for the Arts, SomArts and the Julia Morgan Theater, in Los Angeles at The Santa Monica Playhouse, CalArts, the Disney Lund Theater and internationally as an invited artist in Mexico at the ComuArte Conference for International Women in Art and at the Prague Quadrennial among others.