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BIO

Erin Woodbrey (b. 1985, Portland, Maine) is a New England-based visual artist whose body of interdisciplinary work utilizes sculpture, printmaking, photography, and time-based media. Woodbrey’s work seeks to parse the fused and knotted qualities of the current global environmental crisis as examined through objects, the landscape, and the relationships between bodies and architectures. Woodbrey’s work is presented, piece by piece, as a study of fabricated and naturally occurring units of space and time. Her gaze, wide in scope, is trained on the interrelated qualities of process, time, material, nature, the body, and architecture. Using sometimes insubstantial materials to depict what seems simultaneously indestructible and delicate, Woodbrey’s work, explores the tension between permanence and transience, growth and decay. Often involving a dialog on contemporary Ecological discourse and new materialisms, Woodbrey’s work draws on the legacies of Dada and conceptual art movements of the 1960’s and 70’s including Fluxus, Arte Povera, Process Art, Land Art, and Environmental Art. Through experiment and focused research, Woodbrey’s work asks essential questions about how the functions of objects and space inform, mirror, and tend to the human condition and more broadly, conditions of being.

Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include The Fragment Series, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA; Quill Isn’t Staying Now, with Dani Leventhal ReStack, Gaa Projects, Cologne, Germany; Leg, Limber, Lumber, Limb, Higgins Art Gallery at Cape Cod Community College, Barnstable, MA, USA; Time Mothers, Gaa Gallery Provincetown, MA, USA; Material Studies, Arena Gallery, Liverpool, UK; and Air of Another Planet, Gaa Gallery, Wellfleet, MA. Her work has been included group exhibitions at Cry Baby, Berlin, Germany; Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME; SÍM Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland; Greylight Projects, Hoensbroek, Netherlands USA; Code Art Fair, Copenhagen, Denmark; Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, USA; International Print Center, New York, NY, and Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia, among others. Woodbrey received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014. In 2007 she completed a BFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, where she also is the recipient of a 2017-18 Traveling Fellowship.

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EDUCATION

2014 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL - Master of Fine Arts

2007 The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA - Bachelor of Fine Arts

SELECTED SOLO + TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS 

2022 Wilder Alison + Erin Woodbrey, EXPOSURE, Expo, Chicago. IL, USA (Upcoming)

2021 Beacon, 201 Telephone Box Gallery, St. Andrews, Scotland (Upcoming)

2019 The Fragment Series, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA

2018 Quill Isn’t Staying Now, Dani Leventhal ReStack + Erin Woodbrey, Gaa Gallery Project Space, Cologne, Germany

2017 Time Mothers, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA

Leg, Limber, Lumber Limb, Higgins Art Gallery, Cape Cod Community College, Barnstable, MA, USA

2016 Material Studies, Arena Gallery, Liverpool, UK

2015 Air of Another Planet, Gaa Gallery, Wellfleet, MA, USA

2014 Undercoat, Gallery 10, Truro, MA, USA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 Sister City - Collaboration with Lizzie Thomson, Praxis Artspace, Adelaide, Australia (Upcoming)

2021 EXPO CHGO, virtual presentation with Gaa Gallery

Dazzleship, Umbrella Arts Center, Concord, MA, USA 

Found, Formed, Fused, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, USA 

2020 (im)materiality, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA

Home as Situation, Bolivar Art Gallery, School of Art + Visual Studies, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, Online exhibition

Biennial Exhibition, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME, USA selected by Nina Johnson-Milewski and Kate McNamara

Templates for Public Art, Limited Time Engagement, Chicago, IL, USA curated by  Kate Conlon and Boyang Hou,  Online Exhibition + Print Publication

2019 Ain’t No Use, Crybaby, Berlin Germany, organized by Annelies Kamen and Samantha Bohatsch

zeit-geist-zeit, Gaa Gallery, Wellfleet, MA, USA

Party Line, 201 Telephone Box Gallery, St. Andrews, Scotland, curated by Lada Wilson

2018 It went like this: the skyline was beautiful on fire, Vermont College of Art, Montpelier, VT, USA, 

selected by Meg Onli

Concurrent Realities, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA

Biennial Exhibition, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME, USA

Gary Kuehn, Dani Leventhal ReStack + Erin Woodbrey, Code Art Fair, Copenhagen, Denmark

Supplemental Light, SÍM Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland

2017 Out of the Blue, Greylight Projects, Hoensbroek, Netherlands

2016 Internationale Papierkunstbiennale, Haacht, Belgium

Group Exhibition, Gaa Projects, Cologne, Germany

Poetics of the Landscape, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA

Summertime, Gaa Gallery, Wellfleet, MA, USA

Beneath Metropolis, Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, USA

The Grass is Green, Gaa Projects, Cologne, Germany

2015 A Call For Drawings, University of the Arts Utrecht, Basis Voor Actuele Kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands

Earth to Earth, Higgins Art Gallery, Cape Cod Community College, Barnstable, MA, USA

Group Exhibition, Gaa Gallery, Wellfleet, MA, USA

2014 New Prints Benefit Exhibition, International Print Center New York, NY, USA

Clouds, ArtStrand, Provincetown, MA, USA

Reflections of Now, Gallery at Castle Hill Truro Center for the Arts, Truro, MA, USA

MFA Thesis Exhibition, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL, USA

Beyond the Screen, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Starwalker, Threewalls, Chicago, IL, USA

2013 Transitions, Schingoethe Museum and Art Gallery at Aurora University, Aurora, IL, USA

Video Trail Mix, Tritriangle, Chicago, IL, USA

New Narratives, International Print Center, New York, NY, USA, selected by Andrew Raftery

Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books: One: Selected Works, La Biblioteca Nacional de España,

Madrid, Spain

Paper - Tradition and Experiment, Arka Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania

2012 Printmaking Exhibition, Art Works Gallery, New Bedford, MA, USA

Black, White & Read, Dadian Gallery, Washington, DC, USA

Fresh Paint, New Art Center, Newton, MA, USA

2011 For Love, Not Money, Tallinn Print Triennial, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia

Boston Printmakers: North American Print Biennial, The Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA, USA

Imprints, Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA, USA

Transferred, Target Gallery at the Torpedo Factory Arts Center, Alexandria, VA, USA

2010 New Prints: Winter 2010, International Print Center, New York, NY, USA, selected by Alexander Campos, Michele Oka Doner, Kathleen Flynn, Shelley Langdale, Dwight E. Lee, and Leslie Miller

New Prints: Part II, Meyerson Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Juried Exhibition, Printmakers of Cape Cod, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, USA

Food & Form, Dadian Gallery, Washington, DC, USA

Recent Gifts to the Collection, Provincetown Art Association Museum, Provincetown, MA, USA

2009 Monumental Ideas in a Miniature Book, (Traveling Exhibition 2009-2012), Southern Graphics Council 

Global Implications, Columbia College, Chicago, IL, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, 

The University of Granada, Spain, China Academy of Art, Hang Zhou, China, 

Proyecto Ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2008 Animalia, Women’s Studio Workshop Gallery, Rosendale, NY, USA

Printed Matter, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY, USA

LO! A Collection of Secreted Tales and Objects of Wonder, Machines with Magnets Gallery, 

Pawtucket, RI, USA

AWARDS + RESIDENCIES

2021 Artist in Residence, Carrizozo A.I.R, Carrizozo, NM, USA

2020 Artist in Residence, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MassMoCA), North Adams, MA, USA

A4A Grant, MassMoCA, North Adams, MA, USA

Visiting Artist, Judy Pfaff Foundation, Tivoli, NY, USA

Visiting Artist, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Papermaking Test Kitchen

2020 Artist in Residence, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MassMoCA), North Adams, MA, USA

A4A Capacity Building Grant, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MassMoCA), North Adams, MA, USA

2019 Artist in Residence, Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Angus, Scotland

Visiting Artist, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research, Zürich, Switzerland

2018 Artist in Residence, Samband íslenskra myndlistarmanna (SÍM), Reykjavík, Iceland

Traveling Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine arts at Tufts University

Visiting Artist, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research, Zürich, Switzerland

2017 Artist In Residence, Gaa Gallery Project Space, Cologne, Germany

Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, Johnson, VT, USA

Visiting Artist Cape Cod Community College, Barnstable, MA, USA

2016 Beers London - Contemporary Visions VII - Shortlist

Artist In Residence, Arena Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Artist in Residence, Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Co.Clare, Ireland

2014 Visiting Artist, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA

2012 New Artist Society Trustee, Merit Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA

2007 Boston Printmakers Print Biennial - Jury’s Commendation

2007 The School of the Museum of Fine Arts- Print and Paper Area Award

Public Collections

Columbia College, Chicago, IL, USA

Hebron Academy Permanent Collection, Hebron, ME, USA

Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Angus, Scotland

Meyers College of Art at the University of Akron, Akron, OH, USA

Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, USAFundación´ace Art Collection, Proyecto’ace, Buenos Aires Argentina

Southern Graphics Council Archives at the University of Mississippi, University Museum, Oxford MS, USA

SELECTED PRESS, PUBLICATIONS + WORKS CITED

Curator Lead Tour - Collecting International Artists, with Marcella Beccaria, Chief Curator and Curator of Collections at Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, EXPO CHGO, 2021

CMCA Biennial 2020, by Carl Little, Art New England, 2021

Bio Politics. Science for the People, Vol. 23 No. 3, artwork images accompanying the essay

Make Oursleves Anew: Towards a Radical Biology, Kriti Sharma, 2021

Templates for Public Art, Limited Time Engagement, 2020

The (thuh) Listening (li·suh·nuhng) Times (taimz), print on newspaper published by Erin Woodbrey for Party Line, 201 Telephone Box Gallery, 2019

KubaParis, Ain’t No Use @ Crybaby, 2019

Spotlight Review: CMCA Biennial by Carl Little, Art New England, 2019

Warmest Blue, artist book published by Erin Woodbrey, 2018

Art review: The 2018 CMCA Biennial is good and messy by Daniel Kany, Portland Press Herald, 2018

Leg, Limber, Lumber, Limb, artist book by Erin Woodbrey, 2018

Erin Woodbrey: Leg, Limber, Lumber, Limb, Reviewed by John Pyper, Delicious Line, 2017

The Time Mother, Take Magazine, Essay by Alexa Harrison, 2017

Time Mothers, essay by Kirsten Andersen, 2017

Time Mother, artist book published by Erin Woodbrey, 2019

The Grass is Green, Gaa Gallery Project Space, Cologne, 2016

Like This, artist book published by Erin Woodbrey, 2014

MFA Catalog, published by Printmedia Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Cover designed by Alex Valentine III, Cover printed by Todd Rau, 2014

New Prints: Winter 2010, International Print Center New York, Essay by Michele Oka Doner, 2010

The Domestic Tarot, Artist Book Edition, 2009

Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books Essay by Hui-Chu Ying, Curated by Hui-Chu Ying, 2009

Voice to Vision, Women’s Studio Workshop, 2008