eri king

eri king is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist working in painting, drawing, installation, mixed-media sculpture, and fiber. Through a dialectical approach, she examines binary oppositions that shape cultural narratives, revealing contradictions and connections. Her work explores tensions between the natural and the artificial, reality and illusion, and the complex dynamic of desire, agency, and power. By deconstructing these seemingly oppositional concepts through imagination and allegory, she explores underlying patterns, shifting perceptions of fact and fiction, and the interplay between the familiar and the bizarre.

King employs a collage-like approach, weaving together diverse cultural systems, philosophies, and material artifacts. Through the meditative act of repetitive mark-making, her work reveals pattern as both visual structure and cultural imprint, linking ornamentation, ritual, and the subliminal that inform experience, while examining aesthetics as a vehicle for influencing perception and meaning. Through this layered practice, she interrogates power dynamics, consumerism, visual culture, and traditions to understand how they shape identity and collective experience. By layering and recontextualizing these elements, she highlights overlooked aspects of everyday life and reveals the intersection of authenticity and illusion. Her work navigates the blurred boundaries of desire and value, materiality and myth, worship and power, prompting a reconsideration of how meaning is constructed and perceived.

BIO

eri king received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art and Art History from the University of Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2011 and her Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Hunter College in 2018. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. King is one half of the collaborative art duo Eridan, alongside NY-based artist Daniel Greer, and is a member-curator at Field of Play Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor for MFA Painting at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.

From 2011 to 2014, she was the co-founder and curator of the artist-run spaces 5th Wall Gallery and Project Space in Las Vegas. She has had solo exhibitions at Winchester Cultural Center Gallery, Las Vegas, NV (2013); Miranda Kuo Gallery, New York, NY (2016); Catskills Gallery, New York, NY (2021); ASAP Gallery, Las Vegas, NV (2024) and SPRING/BREAK Art Show NYC (2025).

Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including Lined & Torn at the Marjorie Barrick Museum (2024), Off the Grid, 5-50 Gallery, NYC (2024), The Big Duck, Carracci Art Gallery, NYC (2022), SPRING/BREAK Art Show NYC (2024), Financial Times' Global Boardroom, UK (2020), the London Biennale in Nevada (2012, 2020), and the Every Woman Biennial (2019), among others. Her work is included in the permanent collection of the City of Las Vegas and the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Currently:

7 March 2026 - 30 April 2026 : Solo exhibition, fingers crossed, One River School, Englewood, New Jersey

Upcoming:

25 June - 29, 2026: Curatorial, Pharmakon, The Mall at Upstate Art Weekend, Kingston, New York

Fall 2026: Visiting Assistant Professor for Graduate Painting, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Nov - Dec 2026: Curatorial, TBT, Field of Play Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Recent Press:
Art Spiel
Two Coats of Paint
Couch in the Desert
Southwest Contemporary
Seeing Color: Podcast interview
SchoolArts Magazine

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erijking@gmail.com