Photograph by Jennifer Esperanza
What compels my artistic practice is the desire to convey that which I have found to be true in all of the countries I have traveled to: that our commonalities as human beings far outweigh our differences. The bond between brothers, the love between mother and child, the kinship shared through creative endeavors; these run like threads in the great fabric of generations.
The reasons behind my use of recycled material are multilayered. First, artists have always used materials close-at-hand; I use what is most readily available to my era—waste from our globalized consumer culture.
Secondly, my use of trash is a spiritual practice in the sense that it is re-transfigured into something of beauty.
Finally, using post-consumer waste is a socio-political act: it is a form of recycling that expresses our interconnectedness as human beings—in what we value, share, consume, and cast away.
-Erin Currier
Photograph by Alex DeVore
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2021: “Passion, Pathos, and the Human Potential,” Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2020: “Muse in Motion: Athletes & Activism,” Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2019: “Mas Las Meninas,” Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2018: “Las Meninas,” Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2018: “La Frontera,” Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM
2017: “La Frontera,” University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2017: “Fight Like a Girl,” Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2016: “Rogues and Reinas,” Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2016: “Song of the West,” Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
2015: “The Orchard Keepers,” Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2014: “From Taos to Laos,” Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2013: “From Paris to Phnom Penh,” Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2013: “Soldiers, Saints, and Psychos,” Kohi Kulturaum, Karlsruhe, Germany
2012: “From California to Cairo,” Hamilton Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2011: “Seven Miles Per Second,” Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2010: “Friendly Skies,” Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2010: “Journalistas Unembedded,” Parks Gallery, Taos, NM
2009: “Schoolyards,” Parks Gallery, Taos, NM
2009: “Schoolgirls and Schoolboys” Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2009: “Portenas,” Masottatorres Contemporanea, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2008: “Miss World,” Parks Gallery, Taos, NM
2007: “America Below,” Parks Gallery, Taos, NM
2007: “In Solidarity,” Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Embassy, Washington D.C.
2006: “From Vietnam to Venezuela, Bandits and Beauty Queens,” Parks Gallery, Taos
2005: “Mothers and Martyrs,” Parks Gallery, Taos, NM
2005: “Small Works,” Parks Gallery, Taos, NM
2004: “The Other America,” Parks Gallery, Taos, NM
2004: “Selected Works,” TOPS Gallery, Malibu, CA
2003: “Liberation Series,” College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
2003: “Liberation Series,” Parks Gallery, Taos, NM
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2022: Intersect Palm Springs
2021: “Dignidad y Fronteras,” La Matadora Gallery, Joshua Tree, CA
2021: “Here,” Sanitary Tortilla Factory, Albuquerque, NM
2020: Palm Springs International Art Fair, Palm Springs, CA
2019: “Open Studio Exhibition,” Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency, Joshua Tree, CA
2019: “Changing Ideals: The Tia Collection,” The Rockwell Museum, Corning, NY
2018 -2020: "Enduring Ideals: Rockwell, Roosevelt & the Four Freedoms," The Henry Ford Museum, Dear- born, MI; The George Washington University Museum, &The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA
2018-2019: “Because It's Time: Unraveling Race & Place in New Mexico,” National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM
2018-2019: Without Borders/Arte Sin Fronteras, El Pueblo History Museum, Pueblo, CO
2013-2019: LA Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
2018: “Revolution,” Kohi Kulturaum, Karlsruhe, Germany
2016: “Modernist Intersections: The Tia Collection,” University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tuscon, AZ
2016: “The Legacy of Fred Harvey in New Mexico,” Santa Fe Community Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2016: “Fahrenheit 451,” Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2015: “Song of the West,” Kohi Kulturaum, Karlsruhe, Germany
2015: “Lollipop Guild Invitational,” Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2014: “Uncharted Territory,” Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
2013: “Fine Folk of New Mexico,” Santa Fe Community Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2013-15 “LA Art Show,” Los Angeles County Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA
2012: “Finite Passing of an Infinite Passion,” SCA Contemporary, Albuquerque, NM
2011: “100 Years of Women Rockin’ the World,” Artrage Gallery, Syracuse, NY
2011: “18 Days,” Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2010: “TWO,” Rooftops, Berlin, DE
2009: “Vision Shift,” Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
2009: Arte BA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2009: “Salvo,” Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007-11: Masottatorres Contemporanea, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2008: “FOCA Show,” Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2007-08: “Originals,” National Museum of Women in the Arts, Harwood Museum, NM
2007: “Lifting the Veil: New Mexico Women and the Tricultural Myth,” Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, NM
2005-08: MJ Higgins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005: “Heroes,” Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2005: “La Madre Poderosa,” Harwood Museum, Taos, NM
2003: “FOCA Exhibition,” Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
1999-2006 Tops Gallery, Malibu, CA
Residencies:
2020: Orient Point Lighthouse Artist Residency, Orient Point, NY
2019: Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency, Joshua Tree, CA
2019: Acadia National Park Artist in Residence Program, Acadia, ME
2010: Rooftops Artist Residency, Berlin, Germany
Selected Collections:
Bernardo Bertolucci
Sherilynn Bevel
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Embassy, Washington, DC
Lisa Bonet
California State University
President Hugo Chavez
John Cusack
Joan Cusack
Kirk Ellis
Whoopi Goldberg
Ed Gibson
Estate of Jennifer Jones
Linda Hamilton
Liz Heller
The Harwood Museum, Taos, NM
Dennis Hopper
Coretta Scott King
John Manulis
Francesca Marciano
Barrett Martin
Jeremy Piven
Julia Roberts
Mr. & Mrs. Carlos Santana Martin Sheen
Mirabai Starr
State of New Mexico Public Collection, Santa Fe, NM
Dean Stockwell
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Jimmy Van Patten
Pat Van Patten
Robert and Dawn Walker
Self Portrait by Erin Currier
Photograph by Dana Hassett
Photograph by Liz Hassett
Photograph by Paul O Conner
Photograph by Amy at Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency
