T. R. Ericsson
Born Cleveland, OH 1972
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Painesville, OH
EDUCATION
1991-1995 The Art Students League of New York, NY
The National Academy of Design, New York, NY
1990-1991 The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
1984-1990 The Fine Arts Association, Cleveland, OH
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 Narcissus, [ November 15 – December 20 ], SHAHEEN Modern and Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH (forthcoming)
Thanksgiving, [ November 7 – December 20 ], The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH (forthcoming)
Nicotine Dream, [ September 9 – October 15 ], Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
2007 As if life isn’t hard enough they have to tear out your flowers, [ October 11 - November 3 ], Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, NY
And all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well when the toungues of flame are in-folded into the crowned knot of fire and the
fire and the rose are one, [ September ], Progressive Art Collection, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Featured artist at Scope Miami, [ December 6 – December 10 ], Ashley Gallery, Miami, FL
The Year of the Motorcycle, [ March 22 ], documentary film screening, Cleveland International Film Festival, Cleveland, OH
2005 The Year of the Motorcycle, [ July 20 – October 6 ], Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland, OH
I’m still waiting for you… , [ August 18 – September 21 ], Arts Collinwood, Collinwood, OH
Everyday Is Like Sunday (permanent display), Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland, OH
2004 Mother, [ May 16 –June 16 ], Portraits Inc., New York, NY
2003 Angste, , [May 24 – July 25 ], Cleveland Public Art, Clevaland, OH
2002 Cleveland, a Dialecic Verse, [ November 2003 –May 2004], Art Metro, Cleveland, OH
Soaking Out All the Miseries, [ October–November], Boiler Volkes Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
Thirst Magazine Launch Party, [ January 5 ]The Living Room, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 The NY Art Book Fair [ October 24 -26 ], Iconoclast Editions, Phillips De Pury & Company, New York, NY
Frieze Art Fair, Regents Park, [ October 15 – 18 ], Paul Kasmin Gallery, London, UK
Contemporary Journals: More than meets the eye: [May], Ingalls Library and Archives, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
A Photographic Perspective, [ February 21 – March 22 ], Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Aqua Art Miami, Aqua Hotel, [ December 5 – 9 ], Ashley Gallery/Heidi Cho Gallery, Miami, FL
Andy Warhol: Factory Now, [September 7 –October 6 ], Kasia Key Art Projects, Chicago, IL
MACO, México Arte Contemporáneo Art Fair, [ April 25 – 29 ], Ashley Gallery, DF, Mexico
Red Dot Art Fair, , [February 23 – 26 ], Ashley Gallery, New York, NY
2006 7th International Toronto International Art Fair, [ November 9 –13 ], Art Toronto, Ashley Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2004 Pedestrian, Nowhere to go and no money to get there, [ March 13 – April 24 ], Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
JP Morgan Chase Collection, New York, NY
Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield Village, OH
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Rockefeller Library, Serials Department, Providence, RI
The Joan Flash Artist Book Collection, Chicago, IL
Pfizer Corporate Collection, New York, NY
The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
Joseph Curtis Sloane Art Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Gardens, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington D.C.
PUBLICATIONS / MEDIA
A Life Story; by Matt Tullis, Cleveland Magazine, Cleveland, October 2008
Please Love Me Forever; Thirst Magazine, no. 13
On The Performativity of Absence, Connections Interdisciplinary Conference,
Reflections on Materiality and Time; by Natasha Lushetich, Bristol, Avon, UK
Review; by Victoria Hofmo, Norway Times, November 13, 2007
Review; by Holland Cotter, New York Times, October 26, 2007
More beautiful than you can imagine; Thirst Magazine, no. 12 Fall/Winter 2007
Voyage to Cardiff a film project; Thirst Magazine, no. 11 Spring/Summer
Pour your mother a drink; Thirst Magazine, no. 10 Fall/Winter 2006
The Year of the Motorcycle; Thirst Magazine, no. 8 Spring/Summer 2005
Corporate Power; by Barbara Pollack, Art and Auction Magazine, New York,
December 2005
Home; Thirst Magazine, no. 7 Fall/Winter 2004
Perfect; Thirst Magazine, no. 6 Spring/Summer 2004
Reproduction (Thirst Magazine no. 3, pg. 13); by Maurizio Cattelan,
Permanent Food Magazine, New York, no. 12 Spring 2004
Fail Again, Fail Better; Thirst Magazine, no. 5 Fall/Winter 2003
Downtown Cleveland, a documentary, WVIZ/PBS producer David C. Barnett,
2004
Thirst Magazine, no. 4 Spring/Summer 2003
WVIZ ideastream, Applause an interview with Dee Perry, 2002
Apothems of the Father; Thirst Magazine, no. 3 Fall/Winter 2002
Thirst Magazine, no. 2 Spring/Summer 2002
Thirst Magazine, no. 1 Fall/Winter 2001
Hold that pose; House Beautiful Magazine, September 2001
AWARDS
Anna Lee Stacey Foundation Grant, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1997
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1997
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1995
Edward G. McDowell Travel Grant, New York, NY, 1995
Lloyd Sherwood Grant, New York, NY, 1994-95
National Arts Club, Award of Distinction, New York, NY, 1993
Albert Halgarten Travel Grant, New York, NY, 1993