Echo Eggebrecht was born in Maine and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA in 2000 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, her MFA at Hunter College in 2006, and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME.

In addition to Saltonstall, residencies include the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE and The Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA. She is represented by Horton Gallery. Eggebrecht has held solo exhibitions at Horton Gallery, New York; Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York; Ter Caemer Meert Contemporary, Kortijk, Belgium; Sixtyseven, New York and Sixspace in Los Angeles as well as group exhibitions at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; ICA; Nicole Klagsburn; and White Box in New York; Groeflin Maag Gallery in Basel Switzerland; Poets on Painters at the Ulrich Museum.