Since early 2015, Eva Castringius has been a PhD student at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. She studied fine arts at the Berlin University of the Arts, and studied for her MA with Professor Leiko Ikemura. She had previously completed a master’s degree in art teaching, art history, and psychology at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. During an extended stay in the USA on a scholarship to the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles, she began to take an interest in the industrial landscapes of the southwest United States. More recently, she has written about the nuclear test landscapes of the Nevada test site. She complemented her time in the US with a trip to Japan in 2013, where a visit to the sites helped her in her research of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The artist has received a number of awards and scholarships, and her artworks are displayed in galleries and museums in several countries. Eva has received numerous grants, including a scholarship from the Royal College of Art, London, in 1996; a 2009 studio scholarship from the Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago; and, in 2013, a “Research in Culture” residency at the Banff Centre, Canada.