Constance Edwards Scopelitis

Constance Edwards Scopelitis (b. 1955) graduated with a fine arts degree from Indiana University. She continued her studies with legendary American figurative painter Isabel Bishop. Further studies at the Art Students League of New York set Edwards Scopelitis on a career path of executing large-scale narrative figure paintings. She has been awarded national and international fellowships including the Creative Renewal Fellowship through the Eli Lilly Foundation and the DeHaan Artist of Distinction Award in 2020. She also regularly exhibits at national and international art fairs including Art Miami.

Edwards Scopelitis’s break-out work in Digital Art Media allows viewers to engage with interactive video programs and digital animation. Her video projects include digitally placed 2D animations based on narratives of social justice issues. Through interactive gaming programs, viewers can alter the artwork directly on touchscreens. According to D/Railed Magazine, her interactive video work exhibited during Art on Paper New York 2017 stood out for exuding “creativity and innovation while absorbing and re-contextualizing the artist’s traditional figure painting roots.”

Edwards Scopelitis was selected as a Time-Based finalist for ArtPrize 8. She exhibited ten works at the Cornell Art Museum in Delray Beach, Florida (2018-19). A solo exhibition of her work, Monumental Drawings, will open at the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette (Lafayette, IN) in September 2022, followed by a solo exhibition in 2023 at the Richmond Museum of Art (Richmond, IN).