E.V. Day received her MFA in sculpture from Yale in 1995. The first sculpture in her Exploding Couture series, Bombshell, was included in the 2000 Biennial of the Whitney Museum of American Art, and is now in the museum’s permanent collection. She has had numerous solo exhibitions, including the 2001 installation G-Force at the Whitney Museum at Altria, in which she suspended hundreds of thongs from the ceiling in fighter-jet formations, and a ten-year survey exhibition in 2004 at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University. Bride Fight, Day’s spectacular high-tension string-up of two dueling bridal gowns was exhibited at the Lever House in 2006.

Day’s work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the New York Public Library, the Saatchi Collection, NASA, and the Lever House, and numerous private collections.

Divas Ascending, a series of 14 suspended sculptures made with costumes from the New York City Opera’s archives, was first exhibited in the Promenade of the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center for the 2010 season of the New York City Opera. In April 2011 the series traveled to the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts in Louisville. (Presented by Salomon Contemporary and Art Without Walls, Louisville) Salomon Contemporary also exhibited Butterfly from Divas Ascending, along with works by Alice Aycock in May 2011.