eri king

BIO

eri king is an interdisciplinary artist working across various mediums, including painting, drawing, installation, sculpture, textiles, video, sound, and performance. She draws inspiration from overlooked and repetitive aspects and rituals in daily life, aiming to amplify their visibility and perceived significance. Her work delves into the intricate connections between disparate subjects and cultural narratives, unpacking the associations and perspectives linked to established American traditions.

king employs archetypes, symbols, and cultural references to navigate the contradictions and connections that shape our cultural narratives. By utilizing everyday materials—such as plastic, discarded objects, manufactured goods, and household items—she investigates their cultural and symbolic power, shedding light on how mass media and capitalism shape notions of value, desire, and identity in a globalized world. Her process is meticulous and analog, simulating the precision of mechanical production while remaining inherently handmade. This duality reflects on labor, time, and energy, examining how these elements flow through objects, spaces, and society. Her compositions explore the communication strategies of mass media and capitalism, along with their global implications for everyday life, aiming to illuminate the familiar and the bizarre through deconstruction, imagination, and fabrication.

king’s syncretic approach, influenced by the interplay of dialectical tensions, invites viewers to reconsider the everyday, destabilizing habitual perceptions and encouraging a deeper exploration of how cultural, economic, and environmental forces shape our collective consciousness.

king received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art and Art History at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2011 and her Master of Fine Arts in Painting at Hunter College in 2018. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. She is half of the collaborative art duo eridan with NY-based artist Daniel Greer.

She was co-founder and co-curator of artist-run spaces, 5th Wall Gallery and Project Space in the Emergency Arts, Las Vegas from 2011-2014. She has had solo exhibitions at Winchester Cultural Center Gallery, Las Vegas, NY (2013); Miranda Kuo Gallery, New York, NY (2016); Shiro Oni Studio, Gunma, Japan (2017); and Catskills Gallery, New York, NY (2021). Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions such as 550 Gallery’s Off the Grid (2024), Spring/Break Art Show, NYC (2021, 2023,2024), Financial Time’s Global Boardroom, UK (2020), London Biennale in Nevada (2012 and 2020), Every Woman Biennial (2019) and Rise up, NYC (2017), among many others. Her work is in the permanent collection at The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas, Nevada.

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