About
A Jacksonville, FL native and resident, Doug Eng is a photographer and installation artist whose visual interests are urban and natural landscapes. Eng’s recent projects focus on raising awareness of social and environmental issues - redlining, urban renewal, deforestation, and the effects of climate change on the health of our forests. An engineer and software programmer by education and trade, Eng is pursuing a lifelong interest in the visual arts and has established a reputation for unique imagery and meaningful public projects.
Eng received his BS and MEng degrees at Cornell University studying structural engineering and architecture. This combination of arts and science germinated his interests in natural forms, systems, and design. Photography became the ideal medium to support his studies and document his particular view of the world.
Eng was selected three times as a Critical Mass Finalist and his work has been exhibited widely in the southeast, including a retrospective in 2021 at the Museum of Contemporary Art - Jacksonville. Eng’s work is included in many corporate and private collections and in the permanent collections of the Telfair Museums and the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville. His projects Streaming South and On Fertile Ground were featured in LensWork magazine, and Eng has won numerous IPA Awards for nature and fine art images. Eng’s studio is located in the CoRK Arts District in Jacksonville.
Project Links
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Resumé
Education
1976 – BS, Cornell University, Civil Engineering/Architecture
1977 – M Eng., Cornell University, Civil Engineering/Structures
1981 – MBA, University of North Florida, College of Business Administration, Finance
Exhibitions
2023 – Contemporary Cartographies, Redline series, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville
2023 – Creeks Rising, Jesse Ball DuPont Center, Jacksonville
2022 – Flow, St Johns Cathedral, Jacksonville
2022-2024 – American Made - Paintings and Sculpture from the DeMell Jacobsen Collection (Replicated Self). Mint Museum, Charlotte NC; Dixon Gallery & Gardens, Memphis TN; Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville FL; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio TX; Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville AL
2022 – Creeks Rising, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville
2022 – The Color of Law, juried selection, St. Johns Cathedral and The Historic Eastside Cultural Center, Jacksonville
2021 – Structure of Nature | Nature of Structure, retrospective, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville
2021 – Art Ventures 30th Anniversary Exhibition, featured artist, Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville
2019 – Landscapes 2019-In Relation to the Land, juried selection, The Center for Fine Art Photography
2018 – The Forest re:Framed, Slow Exposures Split Oak Farm, Zebulon GA
2018 – My Real Florida, Southlight Gallery, Jacksonville
2017 – Decoding the Infinite Forest, Museum of Science and History, Jacksonville
2017 – Streaming South, Camerawork Gallery, Portland OR
2016 – Southern Icons A-Z, Slow Exposures group exhibition, Zebulon GA
2016 – A River Speaks, Lufrano Intercultural Gallery for Peace, University of North Florida, Jacksonville
2015 – Slow Exposures Pop-Up Tour Photographer, Streaming South, Zebulon GA
2015 – Streaming South: Illuminations from a Journey Home, Wilson Center for the Arts, Florida State College at Jacksonville
2015 – Intersections, Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville
2014 – Face Forward, Haskell Gallery – Jacksonville International Airport, Jacksonville
2014 – On Fertile Ground, Lufrano Intercultural Gallery for Peace, University of North Florida, Jacksonville
2013 – Beyond the Façade, One Spark Festival, Jacksonville
2012 – Folio Weekly Invitational Artists Exhibition, Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville
2012 – Message in a Bottle: Wall of Light, Main Street Park, Jacksonville
Awards
2021 – Ann McDonald Baker Art Ventures Award, The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida
2019 – Critical Mass 2019 Finalist, Fractured Forests: The hurricane altered landscape of Florida’s Panhandle
2019 – Tokyo International Foto Awards 2019, Gold Editorial/Environmental, Fractured Forests: A hurricane altered landscape
2016 – Critical Mass 2016 Finalist, Decoding the Infinite Forest
2015 – International Photography Awards, Honorable Mention, Professional Division, Environmental Landscapes – Streaming South II
2015 – Critical Mass 2015 Finalist, Streaming South
2014 – International Photography Awards, Honorable Mention, Professional Division, Environmental Landscapes – Streaming South
2013 – Outstanding Project – 2012 Year in Review for Message in a Bottle, Florida Association of Public Art Professionals, Clearwater FL
2013 – 2nd Place Overall, 2nd Place Arts, Beyond the Façade, One Spark Festival, Jacksonville
2013 – Finalist and Employee’s Choice Award for A Magnolia Speaks, Transformations in Healing Art Competition, Healogics, Jacksonville
2013 – International Photography Awards, Honorable Mention, Professional Division, Nature – Magnolia
2013 – International Photography Awards, Honorable Mention, Trees – Autumn Stillness
2011 – International Photography Awards, Honorable Mention, Professional Division, Trees – Straight and Twisted
2010 – International Photography Awards, Honorable Mention Cityscapes – City Views
2010 – Vitality in the Arts Individual Artist Grant, Community Foundation in Jacksonville to fund an exhibition of prints for the Wing Lee Yuen Truck Farm
2008 – Recognition Award from Cmdr. Muzzafar Khan, VS-31 Disestablishment Ceremony, NAS Jacksonville for Photographers for Freedom project
Publications
2020 – Lenscratch.com - Art + Science, March 6, 2020, Nature and Nurture, article and review
2017 – LensWork Seeing in Sixes 2017, October 2017, Autumn Stillness and Truth of Trees
2016 – Lenscratch.com - Art + Science, October 9, 2016, Decoding the Infinite Forest, article and review
2016 – LensWork Magazine, March/April 2016, Streaming South, color portfolio
2016 – LensWork Extended Online, March/April 2016, Streaming South, color portfolio and interview
2016 – LensWork Extended Online, March/April 2016, On Fertile Ground, B&W portfolio and interview
2015 – Lenscratch.com, September 11, 2015, Streaming South, article and review
2015 – Arbus, September/October 2015, There’s a Sigh – Doug Eng’s Streaming South, article and essay
2012 – Arbus, July/August 2012, The Art of Doug Eng, article and cover page
2010 – Arbus, November/December 2010, Art Squared: A Photographer’s View of Imagination Squared – 6 page photo essay
2008 – NANPA Expressions, Showcase Winner, Journal Winner
2007 – NANPA Expressions, Showcase Winner