eri king

BIO

eri king is an interdisciplinary artist working across various mediums, including installation, sculpture, textiles, painting, drawing, video, sound, and performance. She draws inspiration from the overlooked and repetitive aspects and rituals in our daily lives, 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 symbols and cultural references to delve into the contradictions and connections between binary oppositions and non-duality. Everyday materials such as plastic, manufactured products, food, discarded clothing, trash, household items, and traditional media serve as her tools to examine their symbolic and cultural power. She transforms her pieces using meticulous analog processes that simulate machines, often produced by hand, to explore concepts of value, energy, and desire. Her compositions investigate the communication strategies of mass media and capitalism, along with their global implications for everyday life, with the aim of illuminating the familiar and the bizarre through deconstruction, imagination, fabrication, and stylization to reach a poetic and ecstatic truth.

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 New York, NY, and works in art administration as the Studio Director for contemporary artist Sanford Biggers. 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 the Spring/Break Art Show, NYC (2021 and 2023), 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. Currently, her work is on view at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art in two concurrent exhibitions entitled The Emotional Show and Lined and Torn until March 16, 2024.

Beyond her visual art, king plays the synthesizer and is involved in various musical projects such as Voltage Control Record’s Research and Sacred Bone’s Constant Smiles.

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