Louis Eisner

Eisner was born in 1988, with gallery bios placing his birth in Los Angeles; he grew up in Santa Monica near Bergamot Station. He moved to New York in 2006, interned at Sotheby's and later at Deitch Projects, and studied art history at Columbia University, earning his BA around 2010 (one gallery bio gives 2011). After graduating he returned to Los Angeles, where he continued painting and became associated with the Still House Group, an informal circle of young artists exhibiting together in New York in the late 2000s and early 2010s.

His practice spans painting and sculpture, including cast bronze objects, and draws on sources ranging from Renaissance and old-master imagery to comic books, film stills, and other pop-culture material. Early solo shows at The National Exemplar and Half Gallery in New York in the early 2010s were followed by a broader run of solo exhibitions through the 2020s at Manual Arts in Los Angeles, Fitzpatrick Gallery in Paris, Galerie Pepe in Mexico City, Winter Street Gallery on Martha's Vineyard, and The Journal Gallery in New York. He lives and works in New York.

Sustained critical writing on Eisner in major art publications is limited, and no exact, attributable critic quotation could be verified for this profile. His curatorial standing instead rests on institutional and group-exhibition placement: he has been included in group shows at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Belgium, Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali in Italy, and the American Academy in Rome, and his work is held by the Zabludowicz Collection in London, whose artist page lists him among the collection's holdings. Together these place him within a recognized circuit of younger contemporary artists gaining institutional visibility ahead of a fully established critical literature.

Eisner's market is still forming. His highest confirmed auction result is GBP 134,500 (about USD 214,000) at Christie's London on 13 February 2014, in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale, per Christie's own post-sale press release naming him among artists whose works set new highs at that sale; the release does not specify the work's title. No fuller public auction history beyond that single confirmed result could be verified. A 2024 Phillips online listing for a work titled Tarkovsky's Table Scraps carried a lower estimate of USD 4,000 to 6,000, suggesting that recent secondary-market activity has traded well below the 2014 figure. His clearest current commercial activity is on the primary market, through the galleries listed above, and through Platform, an online sales initiative that offered an edition of patinated bronze bowls by the artist in 2025.

There is no catalogue raisonne for Eisner, and his public auction history is thin: a single confirmed result of GBP 134,500 at Christie's London in 2014, with no further verifiable public sales since. His market currently runs through gallery relationships rather than a deep resale history. Collectors should also be careful with attributions under this name, since an unrelated figure from the storyboarding field shares it. Given the diffuse, multi-gallery representation and thin secondary-market data, provenance and gallery confirmation matter more here than they would for an artist with a longer trading record.