BIO
The work of the American artist TR Ericsson is built around deeply personal narratives that investigate the lives of the artist, his middle-class Midwestern family and the changing cultural landscape that impacted each generation. Working from an archive of inherited photographs and documents Ericsson repurposes these artifacts with traditional as well as experimental art materials into a series of intertwining images, objects and texts. Each of these intimate fragments expand into universal declarations on time, memory, love and loss.
Ericsson’s work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, US), the Dallas Museum of Art (US), the Cleveland Museum of Art (US), the Everson Museum of Art (US), The Museum of Modern Art (New York, US) and many other prestigious public and private collections. His books and zines can be found in numerous library collections including the Yale University Arts Library (New Haven, US) and the Smithsonian Institution Libraries (Washington, DC, US). His exhibitions have frequently been featured in prominent publications including The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Art Forum, Art in America, Hyperallergic and others. The artist has earned the following awards: The Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards Shortlist: Photography Catalogue of the Year (2015) and Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2016 Best Photography Books Shortlist and the 91st International Print Center Award, Philadelphia, PA (2017).
In 2019 Ericsson was commissioned by SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia to create a monumental "letter work" that was included in the group exhibition Frederick Douglass: Embers of Freedom, the same year he was also a finalist of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s sixth triennial Outwin Boochever American Portrait Competition with his large scale nicotine work, Bride, a portrait of his mother.
In 2024 TBW Books published, NICOTINE, a follow up to his award winning Crackle & Drag monograph published by Yale University Press in 2015.