T. R. Ericsson

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T. R. Ericsson

 

Born Cleveland, OH 1972

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Concord Township, 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

 

 

SOLO EXHIBTIIONS

 

2011   Shot 44, Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully, Switzerland

           Etant Donnes 2°, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York, NY

2010   Etant Donnes, SHAHEEN modern and contemporary art, Cleveland, OH

2008   Narcissus, SHAHEEN modern and contemporary art, Cleveland, OH

          Thanksgiving, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH

          Nicotine Dream, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY

2007   As if life isn't hard enough they have to tear out your flowers, Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, NY

           And all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well when the tongues of flame are in-folded into

           the crowned knot of fire and the fire and the rose are one, Progressive Art Collection, Los Angeles, CA

2006   The Year of the Motorcycle, documentary film screening, Cleveland International Film Festival,

           Cleveland, OH

2005   The Year of the Motorcycle, Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland, OH

2003   Angst, Cleveland Public Art, Cleveland, OH

 


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2010   Facsimile, Girls' Club, Fort Lauderdale, FL

           TRANSparent TRANSlucent, Flash Space, Lawrence, KS

           Detour, SPACES, Cleveland, OH

           Recent Acquisitions, Ikon Ltd. Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA

           Eyelevel Reshelving Initiative Four, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia

2009   My Gay Uncle, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY

           balm White Show, Signs of Life Gallery, Lawrence, KS

           On Paper, SHAHEEN modern and contemporary art, Cleveland, OH

           Works on Paper, William Shearburn Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2008   A Photographic Perspective, Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, NY

2007   Andy Warhol: Factory Now, Kasia Key Art Projects, Chicago, IL

2004   Pedestrian, Nowhere to go and no money to get there, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY

 

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

 

The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

JP Morgan Chase Collection, New York, NY

Pfizer Corporate Collection, New York, NY

Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield Village, OH

Whitney Museum of American Art, NY

 

 

 

ARTIST'S BOOK AND LIBRARY COLLECTIONS

 

Museum of Modern Art, DADABASE, New York, NY
The Rockefeller Library, Serials Department, Providence, RI
The Joan Flash Artist Book Collection, Chicago, IL
Joseph Curtis Sloane Art Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Gardens, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington D.C.
School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA
Fine Arts Library of the Harvard College Library, Cambridge, MA
Ingalls Library and Museum Archives, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

 

 

SELECTED PRESS

 

Weekend Update; by Walter Robinson, Artnet Magazine, January, 2011
Picture Post; by Emily Nathan, Artnet Magazine, January 10, 2011
Powerful drawings of woman by Ericsson push many buttons; by Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer, October 29, 2010
36 Hours Cleveland; by Brett Sokol, New York Times, September 20, 2009

Through The Woods; by Douglas Max Utter, Cleveland Scene, December 2008

A Life Story; by Matt Tullis, Cleveland Magazine, October 2008

On The Performativity of Absence, Connections Interdisciplinary Conference, Reflections on Materiality and Time; by Natasha Lushetich, Bristol, Avon, UK

Review of As if life isn't hard enough they have to tear out your flowers; by Victoria Hofmo, Norway Times, November 13, 2007

Review of As if life isn't hard enough they have to tear out your flowers; by Holland Cotter, New York Times, October 26, 2007

Corporate Power; by Barbara Pollack, Art and Auction, December 2005

Downtown Cleveland, a documentary; WVIZ/PBS producer David C. Barnett, 2004

Applause; WVIZ ideastream, an interview with Dee Perry, 2002

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

 

Exhibitions

T. R. Ericsson: Nicotine September 24, 2011 - November 4, 2011
T. R. Ericsson: Etant Donnes September 17, 2010 - November 12, 2010
On Paper November 3, 2009 - December 18, 2009
T. R. Ericsson: Narcissus November 15, 2008 - December 20, 2008