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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
| 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 |


































