Bio
Eric Pedersen was born in the Detroit metro area of Michigan in 1981. In 2009 he graduated from the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art. In 2015 he got his MFA from the New York Academy of Art.
I mostly make work about the qualities in myself that I like the least. I feel that by deprecating my narcissism I earn salvation or redemption from it.
I mostly make work about the qualities in myself that I like the least. I feel that by deprecating my narcissism I earn salvation or redemption from it.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2013 Katherine Cone Gallery "Sleeping Giants" Los Angeles California
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015 New York Academy of Art “Tribeca Ball” New York NY
Wilkinson Gallery “MFA Thesis show” New York NY
2014 Wilkinson Gallery "Deck the Walls" New York NY
Sotheby's "Take Home a Nude" New York NY
Flowers Gallery "New York Academy Summer Exhibition" New York NY
New York Academy of Art “Tribeca Ball” New York NY
Arcadia Gallery “LA Art Show” Los Angeles CA
Arcadia Gallery “Art Wynwood” Miami FL
2013 Wilkinson Gallery “Deck the Walls” New York NY
Arcadia Gallery “Small Works” New York NY
Katherine Cone Gallery "Rouge" Los Angeles CA
Katherine Cone Gallery "Selfish" Los Angeles CA
Q Art Salon, "Drawn-in" Santa Ana CA
Maxwell Alexander Gallery, "Still, Life, and Land" Los Angeles CA
Q Art Salon, "Figured Out" Santa Ana CA
2012 LAAFA Gallery, "The Figure" Santa Monica CA
LAAFA Gallery, "Faces" Santa Monica CA
Art Share LA, "The Karma Underground" Los Angeles CA
Lancaster Museum of Art and History, "The Contemporary Figure: Past Presence" Lancaster CA
Bergamot Station Arts Center, "Embody" Santa Monica CA
Linus Gallery, "Nude but Not Rude" Pasadena CA
2010 Artwalk “LAAFA Graduation show” Los Angeles CA
2008 Gallery Nucleus, “LAAFA group show” Alhambra CA
2007 Gallery Nucleus, “LAAFA group show” Alhambra CA
Press
E-junkie, www.e-junkie.com
Asbarez Armenian News, www.asbarez.com
ArtFucksMe, www.artfucksme.com
Supersonic Art, www.supersonicart.com
2013 Line And Stylish Magazine, http://www.lineandstylish.com
Rene De Loffre, www.delofreart.com
Genie Melisande, www.geniemelisande.wordpress.com
Fine Art Connoisseur, www.fineartconnoisseur.com
ArtScene, www.visualartsource.com
Genie Melisande, www.geniemelisande.wordpress.com
Cartwheel Art, www.cartwheelart.com
Platinum Cheese, www.platinumcheese.com
Artist-a-Day, www.artistaday.com
American Art Collector March 2013 issue
Art Book Guy, www.artbookguy.com
2012 American Artist Magazine 75 Year Anniversary Issue "25 Artists of Tomorrow"
Poets and Artists, "Summer Interview Issue Part 2"
Education
2015 MFA New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2009 BFA Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art, Van Nuys CA
2002-2003 Wayne State University, Detroit MI
1999-2001 College for Creative Studies, Detroit MI