eri king

eri king is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist working across painting, drawing, installation, sculpture, textiles, video, sound, and performance. 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, the handmade and the mass-produced, authenticity and illusion, ambiguity and representation, and the dynamic between risk and reward in desire and gratification. By deconstructing these dualities through imagination and allegory, she uncovers underlying patterns, shifting perceptions of fact and fiction, and the interplay between the familiar and the bizarre.

King employs a syncretic, collage-like approach, weaving together diverse philosophies, ideologies, rituals, cultural phenomena, and objects through repetitive mark-making and an investigation of meaning in patterns and aesthetics. Her process merges traditional techniques—painting, sculpture, and drawing—with experimental methods that incorporate found materials such as discarded objects, food products, and single-use plastics. 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, uncovering moments where reality and illusion intersect. 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.

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); Shiro Oni Studio, Gunma, Japan (2017); Catskills Gallery, New York, NY (2021); and ASAP Gallery, Las Vegas, NV (2024).

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 (2021, 2023, 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 in the permanent collection at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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