Erica Eyres

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Born: 1980, Winnipeg, Canada
Lives: Glasgow, Scotland

Education
2002-2004 MFA, Glasgow School of Art
1998-2004 BFA, Fine Arts (Honours), University of Manitoba
2003 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

Solo Exhibitions
2011 Pam�s Dream, Rokeby, London
2010 The Lunatic Box, Prussian Projekte, Nottingham
2008 Haas/Fisher, Zurich
2008 Rokeby, London,
2008 Kunsthaus Erfurt, Erfurt
2006 I love to hate you, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow
2006 Forever and ever and ever and ever and ever, G+ Galleries, Toronto
2006 Rokeby, London
2006 Solo Exhibiition, Rokeby Gallery, London
2005 It�s For the Best, Dwarf Gallery, Reykjavik
�neath the green green grass of home, Mary Mary, Glasgow
hang in there feral kitty, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow
2003 Glasgow Art Fair, with CCA, Glasgow

Group Exhibitions
2011 Terminal Jest, Delaware County Community College in Media, PA
2011 Winter Kept Us Warm, NAC Prairie Scene, Ottawa, touring to Plug In ICA
2011 Winter Kept Us Warm, Maison Rouge, Paris (forthcoming)
2010 Group Show including amongst others Terry Atkinson, John Bock & Fischli & Weiss, Glue Factory, Glasgow
2010 Brooklyn is Burning, PS1, New York, touring to Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley
2009 FAX, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg
2009 Showreel, Collective, Edinburgh
2009 Awkward: A New Media Exhibition, AVA Gallery, Chattanooga
2009 Video_Dumbo, Dumbo Arts Center, New York
2009 Between Tracks, The International 3, touring to Manchester and the Badhaus, St Gallen
2008 An Uncomfortable Fascination, The WFG�s Cinematheque, Winnipeg
2008 Salem, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
2008 No Borders (Just News), The Elektriciteitscentrale, European Centre for Contemporary Art, Brussels touring to the Museum for Contemporary Art, Thessalonica, Greece
2007 Rythum Decay, Akureyri Art Museum, Iceland
2007 Group drawing exhibition, Jack Hanley, San Francisco
2007 I Gave You Life, Cooper Gallery, Dundee
2007 Two-person exhibition with Melanie Rocan, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow
2007 
 Group sculpture exhibition, 798 Space, Beijing

2007 Graphology, Triple Base, San Francisco 

2006 Marcel Dzama and Erica Eyres, The Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
2006 Punch 3, G+ Galleries, Toronto
2006
 The Portrait, Ashwinstreet, London

2006 On-Line: Contemporary Drawing, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, 
SF
2006 The Obsessive and Compulsive Body,
Lee Ka-Sing Gallery, Toronto

2006 The Hunt Ball, Galleri Yergeau, Montreal

2006 Fragmentation of the Self, Rush Arts Gallery, New York

2006 Glasgow Smile, ALM, Munich

2006 Supernovas, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg
2006 Another Other, Cooper Gallery, Dundee
2005 new contemporaries 2005, Barbican, London and touring
2005 Up and Coming Video Screeing #1, Galerie Adler, Frankfurt
2005 Film Screening, curated by Adam Budd, Paved Arts, Saskatoon Saskatchewan Film Pool, Regina
2005 Artificial Light, Film Screening, SAW, Ottawa
2005 Gifts of Sound and Vision, Glasgow International, 20 St Andrews
2005 Bloc, County Hall, Gallery, London
2004 Herald Feminist Film and Video Festival, Calgary
2004 Cardboard Factory, The Leisure Club Mogadishni, Copenhagen

Bibliography
2011 Time Out London, review of Pam's Dream
2011 John-Paul Pryor, AnOther Mag, Art Talks
2011 Hilly Pearlson - Sleek Magazine (forthcoming)
2010 Alli Sharma � Garageland Magazine (forthcoming)
2008 Melanie Moreau � Erica Eyres - WOUND
2008 Bitte, Mutti!, Kunsthaus Erfurt, Erfurt
2008 Jenny Brownrigg - Open Frequency - Axis Web
2008 Alex Michon -Dark Narcissi, Beauty edition � Garageland Magazine
2008 Sam Ainsley - No Borders, Just News - exhibition catalogue
2007 Francis McKee - Listasafnid, Akureyri Art Museum � exhibition catalogue
2006 John Calcutt - Beck�s Futures � exhibition catalogue
2006 Kate Cowcher - Map Magazine
2006 The Incredible Awkwardness of Being - Border Magazine
2006 Eliza Williams - New Contemporaries � Art Monthly

Grants/Awards
2006 Dewer Arts Award
2005 Professional and Creative Development Grant, Scottish Arts Council
2004 Professional Development Travel Grant, Scottish Arts Council
2001 Heinz Jordan Award for Painting, University of Manitoba
2000 Isbister Fine Arts Award, University of Manitoba
UMSU Scholarship, University of Manitoba

Publications
Opitz, Silke. "Bitte Mutti!" Exhibition catalogue, Kunsthaus Erfurt, 2008.