ERIN BIRD

Born 1978 NY, USA
Lives and works in Surrey, UK

EDUCATION

2010

MA Royal College of Art, London, UK

2008

BA(hons) Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK

EXHIBITIONS

2024

The Jackson Art Prize, Exhibition details coming soon!

Age of Aquarius, Graduate Gallery, London (1-2 May 2024)

Inner Rhythm, APT Gallery, London (25-28 April 2024)

Optic Nerve, virtual, *solo

2023

The Ballinglen Museum of Art First Biennial Exhibition, Ballycastle, Ireland

The Sun also Rises, *solo

Wrapped in Light, 67 Great Titchfield St, Fitzrovia, London *solo

The Assembly House Summer Open, Assembly House, Norwich, UK

Refractions, University of Kent: Paris Postgraduate Festival 2023, Paris, FR

A Slash of Blue, Gerald Moore Gallery, London

2022

The Set, Hudson Yards, NYC, Curated by Sugarlift

2021

Timeless Abstraction, MYO Dashwood, London, Curated by A Space For Art

Erin Newell Bird: Waterprints, New Street Square, London, Curated by A Space For Art *solo

Through her eyes, Contemporary Female Artists, Curated by Rania Elafifi

2020

Lumen Prize for Art and Technology, Still Image Shortlist

2013

Now&After’13 - Between image and personality, Moscow Museum of Modern Art

2012

[open source], Life Online, Commission, National Media Museum, Bradford, UK

2011

Ethnographic Terminalia 2011: Montréal - field, studio, lab, Eastern Bloc Centre for New Media & Interdisciplinary Art in Montréal, CA

Where is Milton Creek? Avenue Cinema, Sittingbourne, Kent

the Open Prize 2011 Open Gallery, London

NEW SCREEN NEW- CASTLE, Tyneside Cinema, New Castle, UK

Waterline, Waterfront Gallery, Suffolk, UK

Resonance Open, Gone with the Wind, Raven Row, London, UK

Creekside Open selected by Phyllida Barlow, A.P.T., London UK

VIDEOFORMES 2011 International Festival, Espace Victoire, Clermont-Ferrand, FR

IMPRESS(ed) SGCI conference, Hunt Gallery, St Louis, MO, USA

2010

Rhizomatic, Departure Gallery, London, UK

It's not you, its' me, Screening, Show Two, RCA Battersea, London, UK

Whitstable Biennale, Satellite programme, Whitstable, UK

Show One, RCA Galleries, London, UK

Bill Bored (event) London, UK

RCA printmaking group show, Cafe Gallery, London, UK

Architectural Playgrounds, Restless - Ron Arad, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK

2009

RCA Secret Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK

RETREAT, Hockney Gallery, London, UK

CHAOS, G.A.S. Station, Berlin, DE

Personally Political: Drawing (part 2), Arthouse Tacheles, Berlin, DE

Fault Line: Art in the Age of Anxiety,The Nunnery, London UK

Open Studios, Bow Arts Trust, London UK

Artworks Open,Barbican Arts Group Trust, London UK

space ______ reverie, Cafe Gallery, London, UK

Work in progress show, Royal College of Art, London, UK

2008

RCA Secret Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK

Man Photography Prize, Royal College of Art, London, UK

Oslo Screen Festival, Cinematheque, Oslo, Norway

Unnatural Histories,The Nunnery, London UK

Open Studios, Bow Arts Trust, London UK

Relocating Absence, Elevator Gallery, London UK

Fresh Impressions: Contemporary Letterpress Printing, Hoffman Gallery, Portland OR, USA

Gilchrist Fisher Award 2008, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK

2007

The London Group Open 2007 Menier Gallery, London, UK

artVaults 2007: Season 3 Bargate Monument Gallery, Southampton, UK

Everyday, An empty office space, London, UK

"Alley-Room" (Collaborative Installation/ event with The Alley Cats), Shorditch, London, UK

"The Momentary Awareness of Being Part of Something Vast and the Sudden Recollection of Having No Control"(installation), Shortlisted, Nexus building, Manchester, London, UK

"Tinker's House" (collaborative installation with Arlette Ess) for London's Architecture Foundation

2006

Peace Camp, Brick Lane Gallery, London, UK

Now or Neverland, The Residence Gallery, London, UK

Love Hate, Clerkenwell House of Detention, London, UK

Artskoolgozsouth, Galeria do Palacio, Porto, Portugal

Artskoolgozsouth, Galerie Artcore, Paris, France

"Cheap Memorial" (Collaborative installation with Arlette Ess), Bank of England, London, UK

AWARDS + COMMISSIONS

2024 Jackson Art Prize - shortlisted artist

2020 Lumen Prize for Art & Technology, Still image category - shortlisted artist

2011 Life Online Commission - National Media Museum

2011 Open Prize for video painting - shortlisted artist

2011 Art at the Centre Commission, Milton Creek

2008 Mann Photography Prize- Shortlisted artist

Gilchrist Fisher Award 2008 - Shortlisted artist

Studio residency with the 5th Collective in association with Gallery Yujiro

2007 D&AD Global Student Award