Contact
Contact
Eric is available for editorial assignment and speaking engagements, please contact below for booking information.
About
About
Eric Pickersgill is a full time artist, husband, and father working in North Carolina. He received a Master of Fine Arts degree at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2015. He was born in Homestead, Florida in 1986 and spent his teenage years in Charlotte, North Carolina. Eric received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in Fine Art Photography from Columbia College Chicago in 2011. Between 2011 and 2013 Eric taught high school in Charlotte, NC via Teach for America. His passion for teaching and image making allows him to see the connections that the two share. The work Eric makes is often about photography as he explores the psychological and social effects that cameras and their artifacts have on individuals and societies as a whole. Eric has exhibited and presented his work internationally at institutions, galleries, and art fairs such as The North Carolina Museum of Art, Pantheon-Sorbonne University, The Ackland Art Museum, Rick Wester Fine Art, Pulse Art Fair Miami, AIPAD, and many more.
Education
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Master of Fine Arts, 2015
Columbia College Chicago, Bachelor of Fine Arts Photography, 2011
One Person Exhibitions
2019
Removed, ART SOUTERRAIN, Montreal Quebec, Canada
Removed, Hillsboro Brookwood Library / Hillsboro, Oregon
Removed, Lookup Pop Up, Palette Gallery / San Francisco, CA
2018
Removed, World Economic Forum ASEAN Summit / Hanoi, Vietnam
2017
NoShow, The Médiathéque / Mérignac Photo Festival / France
2016
Removed, Rick Wester Fine Art / New York, NY
The Merchandise Revolt / Lianzhou Foto Festival / Lianzhou, China
2015
Constructing Archives, The Carrack / Durham, NC
Removed, John and June Allcott Gallery / Chapel Hill, NC
Endec - Off the Radar, Golden Belt Studios bldg. #3 / Durham, NC
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
Americans Looking In, Center for Book Arts / New York, NY
2019
The Qualities of LIGHT: The Story of a Pioneering New York City Photography Gallery / The Center for Creative Photography / Tucson, AZ
Hello, Robot. Design between man and machine, V&A Dundee / Dundee, Scotland
Hello, Robot. Design between man and machine, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology / Lisbon, Portugal
New Blood: Recent Discoveries from the Cassilhaus Collection, Cassilhaus Gallery / Chapel Hill, NC
Eyes on Main Street / Wilson, NC
The Space Between, Julie Saul Gallery / New York, NY
Time After Time, QUAID Gallery / Tampa, FL
Hello, Robot. Design between man and machine, San Telmo Museoa / San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, Spain
2018
Diapositive, Cassilhaus / Chapel Hill, NC
I to Eye, Israel Museum / Jerusalem, Israel
Zenith Nadir, Smart Series Gallery / Charlotte, NC
INTERFACE, NEO:gallery / Greater Manchester, UK
Hello, Robot. Design between man and machine, Gewerbemuseum Winterthur / Switzerland
Eyes on Main Street, Wilson, NC
2017
Here I live, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Hello, Robot. Design between man and machine,* traveling exhibition, The Design Museum Gent, Gent, Belgium; Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria; Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
As Entertaining As Possible, Testbed 2 Cultural Creative Park / Chongqing, China
2016
reset, Garis and Hahn / New York, NY
Actual Size: Exploring the Photographic Contact Print, Cassilhaus / Chapel Hill, NC
Future Tense, 516ARTS / Albuquerque, NM
The Photography Show at AIPAD, Rick Wester Fine Art / New York, NY
The Members Show, The Light Factory / Charlotte, NC
2015
PULSE Contemporary Art Fair Miami, Rick Wester Fine Art / Miami, FL
EUREKA!, John and June Allcott Gallery / Chapel Hill, NC
BEYOND CAMERAS, Horace Williams House / Chapel Hill, NC
Neo-Pre-Post-Contra-Para-Anti-Hyper-Pro-Trans-Ultra-Photography, Spectre Arts / Durham, NC
Virtual Insanity, Whitdel Arts / Detroit, MI
Regarding Leisure, University of Northern Florida Gallery of Art / Jacksonville, FL
The Land of No Things: Selected Works by the MFA Class of 2015, Ackland Art Museum / Chapel Hill, NC
2015 Annual Auction Exhibition, The Light Factory / Charlotte, NC
R.E.C.A.P, The Carrack Modern Art / Durham, NC
2014
Press Street & The Blue Library, Antenna Gallery / New Orleans, LA
Pixel and Grain, Durham Art Guild - SunTrust Gallery / Durham, NC
Art Nouveau 3rd Annual Exhibition, Womble Carlyle Gallery / Winston Salem, NC
Faraway Nearby: Duke / UNC-CH MFA PhotoFaculty, Cassilhaus / Chapel Hill, NC
Between the Eyes, Allcott Gallery - Hanes Art Center / Chapel Hill, NC
That Makes Me Nervous, Chapel Hill Underground / Chapel Hill, NC
2013
Icon Industry: The Visual Economy of Human Rights, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University / Durham, NC
Park Pictures, North Carolina Museum of Art / Raleigh, NC
2011
Manifest '11 BA + BFA PHOTO EXHIBITION, Columbia College Chicago / Chicago, IL
CONTACT: 19th century photographic processes, LivingRoom Gallery / Chicago, IL
2010
Relative Exposure: Photographs of Family, 310conTEMPORARYGallery / Chicago, IL
NEEDLESS SUFFERING, The Drawing Room Gallery at The Hopkinson House / Chicago, IL
Images of Home, Columbia College Chicago / Chicago, IL
Low Tech *(Directors Choice Award), The Center for Fine Art Photography / Fort Collins, CO
Suspicious Minds, The Light Factory / Charlotte, NC
North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship Exhibition, Green Hill Center for NC Art / Greensboro, NC
Artist Residencies
Contemporary Artists Center Woodside '14 / Troy, NY
Starry Night Retreat '14 / Truth or Consequences, NM
Portfolio Reviewer
Atlanta Celebrates Photography '16
Portfolio Throwdown / The Light Factory '16
Artist Talks and Lectures
Gujral Foundation / New Delhi, India
TEDxPantheonSorbonne '16 / Paris, France
Kibbitznest, Chicago, IL
AIPAD 2016, The Photography Show
TEDxBend '16 / Bend, Oregon
The Carrack, Durham, NC
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Columbia College Chicago
The Art Institute of Charlotte
The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
Winthrop University '17
Publication
Starry Night, Artists to Look Out For
Soak: anything that ails you – The Blue Library
Curatorial
TheyThem / Photographs From The Cassilhaus Collection / Chapel Hill, NC (Fall ‘14)
Collections
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Joseph M. Cohen Family Collection
JPMorgan Chase Art Collection
Cassilhaus Gallery
Living Room Gallery
Anne-Marie Obregt
The Blue Library – RM220
UNC Chapel Hill / Sloan Art Library
Several Private Collections
Select Online Bibliography
Photograph
Tech Insider
PetaPixel
CNN
South x Southeast photomagazine
Wired
WUNC The State of Things Interview
BBC World Service
Business Insider
The Huffington Post
fisheye
The Washington Post
FotoFilmic
Forbes
Digital America
Vice
Long division, Issue 1
DailyNews
NCMA Park Pictures
Winston-Salem Journal
SLRLounge
The Center for Fine Art Photography
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