AMY ERICKSON
Born Honolulu, HI
Lives and works in Seattle, WA
EDUCATION
2014 Kansas City Art Institute. Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting. Kansas City MO
2020 Trowbridge Painting Atelier. Gage Academy of Art. Seattle, WA
2019 Flack Drawing Atelier. Gage Academy of Art. Seattle, WA
2013 Studio Art Centers International. Conservation and Drawing. Florence, Italy
2009 School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Painting. Chicago, IL
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EXHIBITIONS
2024 Form Over Function, Seattle Art Source, Seattle, WA
Good Times with Food, curated by Angela Sung, Chunky Things, Los Angeles, CA
Solo Exhibition, Tuning Stars Within, Figure Ground Gallery, Seattle, WA
SEVEN, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Recent Liferoom Works, Slow Dance, Seattle, WA
SOIL Auction, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Merry Go Round of Pleasure and Understanding Pop-Up, Koplin Del Rio, Seattle, WA
Collectors' Gala & Art Auction, The Collective, Seattle, WA
Pratt Aglow 2024, Hangar 30, Seattle, WA
Gage Atelier Exhibition, domicile, Seattle, WA
2023 Send Flowers, Railspur, Seattle, WA
Assemble*23, Tregony Gallery, Truro, UK
Stillness, Tregony Gallery, Truro, UK
2022 Cascadia Art Museum Gala, Seattle, WA
Gage Spring Art Auction & Gala, Seattle, WA
2021 PERCEPTUAL, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
The Nude, Figure Ground Gallery, Seattle, WA
Annual Juried Show by Sangram Majumdar, Prince Street Gallery, NY, NY
Portraits of the Pacific Northwest, Gage Academy, Seattle, WA
2020 Spitting Image, Gage Academy, Seattle, WA
2018 Watershed, Vulpes-Bastille, Kansas City, MO
2017 Solo Exhibition, Vanitas Monthly, Room 39, Kansas City, MO
2016 Grand Opening, Studio 112 and a Half, Shawnee, OK
2015 DISEGNO 7: Contemporary Undergraduate Drawing, Baltimore, MA
Momentum OKC 2015, Farmers Public Market, OK
Cradle Peeping, The Nursery Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK
2014 Annual B.F.A. Exhibition, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
TAPPED: A group exhibition of student/teacher pairings, with KCAI Professor Jessie Fisher, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2013 Site as Seen, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO
Patron Preview, Dodge Painting Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Art and Design Auction, Dodge Painting Gallery, Kansas City, MO Blue Ribbon, Dodge Painting Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2012 The Hatchery, City Ice Arts, Kansas C
Small Wonder, Dodge Painting Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Juried Exhibition, Hardy Gallery, Ephraim, WI
2011 YouHaul Install #3, 18th & Baltimore, Kansas City, MO
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AWARDS/GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS
2025 (Forthcoming in April) Vashon Artist Residency, Vashon, WA
2024 Partial Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2021 WSS Joan Burgess Shorey Scholarship, Washington DC, MA
2020 Spitting Image Grant, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA
2019 Puget Sound Group of Northwest Artists Scholarship Award, Seattle, WA
2018 Stanley R. & Robert E. Wright Foundation for the Arts Scholarship, Seattle, WA
2014 Lester Goldman Drawing Competition, Merit Award
2010-2014 KCAI Dean's List, Kansas City, MO
2010 Presidential Scholarship for Painting, Kansas City Art Institute, KCMO
2010 National Scholastic Art And Writing Awards Winner of 3 Gold Medals, American Visions Award, New York, NY
2008-2010 Full Scholarship to Oklahoma Arts Institute at Quartz Mountain, Lone Wolf, OK
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2025 (Forthcoming) Visiting Artist, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2025 (Forthcoming) Visiting Instructor, Alia Fine Arts Studios, Raleigh, NC
2024 Visiting Instructor, Townsend Atelier, Chattanooga, TN
2022– Present Instructor, Modern Color Atelier at Gage Academy of Fine Art, Seattle, WA
2022– Present Instructor, Penn Studio School Philadelphia, PA
2022– Present Instructor, Warrior Art Camp Pasadena, CA
2021 Instructor, Seattle Artist League, Seattle, WA
2015 Teaching Artist, Arts Council of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City, OK
2013 Teaching Assistant, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
PUBLICATIONS
2024 Booooooom, Feature, Tomorrow’s Talent, Volume 4, September 2024. 109-113
MacDonald, Rob, “Summer 2024”, Sixth Finch, July 2024. https://sixthfinch.com/mainsummer24.html
2014 ​ Sprung Formal Literary Arts Journal, Feature, Vol. 9, May 2014. 88.
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LECTURES AND ARTIST TALKS
2024 Collaborative Artist Talk with Amy Scherer, Seattle Art Source, Seattle, WA
2024 Painting as a Grounding Practice, panelist, domicile, Seattle, WA, April 2024
2024 Artist Talk, Tuning Stars Within, Figure Ground Gallery, Seattle, WA, March 2024
2023 Artist Talk, ArenaNet, Bellevue, WA. March 24, 2023
2022 Artist Talk, Trowbridge Academy, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA., March 2022
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Guacheta, Nick, (Host) (2024, March 11). Amy Erickson 3/11/24 (No. 20) [Audio podcast episode]. The Portraitists. Amy Erickson, 3/11/24 - The PortraitistsSpotify - Web Player: Music for everyonehttps://open.spotify.com › episode
Raymond Bonilla, Video Interview, “Studio Bridge 97. Ray Bonilla Talks with Fine Artist Amy Erickson.” Studio Bridge Presented by Visual Arts Passage, Nov 29, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CwVo-LdXIg
“Amy Erickson.” The Flying Fruit Bowl, Nov 18 2023 https://theflyingfruitbowl.co.uk/2023/11/18/amy-erickson/
Gabriella Hetu, “Amy Erickson in Conversation with Gabriella Hetu.” Made in Bed, Jun 23, 2023 https://www.madeinbed.co.uk/emerging/g1lj49lyp7tn8cg6hn9v1ewqaxny17
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GALLERY AFFILIATION
Sebastian Foster, Austin, TX