Erin Armstrong is an artist and educator based in Chicago. Using the human figure as a template, they meditate on the manifestations of yearning in the body while experimenting with metamorphic forms that distort conventions of identity.
Their work has been exhibited locally in Chicago, Milwaukee, and abroad in Utrecht, Netherlands.
For any purchasing or comission inquiries, please contact erin.taylor.armstrong@gmail.com or @erin.armst.
Their work has been exhibited locally in Chicago, Milwaukee, and abroad in Utrecht, Netherlands.
For any purchasing or comission inquiries, please contact erin.taylor.armstrong@gmail.com or @erin.armst.
EDUCATION
2018-2021 School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Chicago, IL
Bachelor of Fine Arts, emphasis in Fiber and Drawing
Merit Scholarship Recipient, graduation May 2021
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Jan 2024 - May 2024 Teaching Artist, The Simple Good Chicago
Jan 2023 - May 2023 Teaching Artist, YMCA, Chicago, IL
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022 Teaching Artist, Marwen School of Art, Chicago, IL
Oct 2021- May 2022 Studio Assistant, Nick Cave Studio, Chicago, IL
Sept 2021 - May 2022 Teaching Artist at One River School of Art + Design, Evanston, IL
June 2021- Aug 2021 Resident Artist at Bethel Horizons, Madison, WI
June 2018 - June 2021 SITE Gallery assistant, Chicago, IL
June 2017 - Aug 2017 Gallery 37 Intern, Chicago, IL
June 2015 - Oct 2016 Teen Council Leader, National Veterans Art Museum, Chicago, IL
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Beside Oneself, One River School of Art and Design, Evanston, IL
2023 Unscratchable Itch, Positive Space Studios, Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Beautiful and Strange Fragmentation, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
2023 Time, Memory, Mythos, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL New Moon, Positive Space Studios, Chicago, IL
2022 *eyelash flutter*, Hawthorne Contemporary, Milwaukee, WI
2021 Where We Are, SITE Galleries, Chicago, IL
Spring Undergraduate Exhibition, SAIC Galleries, Chicago, IL
2020 ExFest Juried Film Festival, Chicago, IL
Incubator, Chicago, IL
Performance of Proposition Festival, Chicago, IL
Moving Images of the Present Performance Festival, Chicago, IL
2019 Memory Palace, TUUB, Utrecht, Netherlands
Ontmoeting in het Onmeetbare, Nieuwe Kerk, Amersfoort, Netherlands
Performer in Diorama by Ingri Fiksdal sponsored by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, presented at Millennium Park, Chicago, IL
Performer in A Night of Performance, Chicago, IL
2018 Soft Spot, SITE Galleries, Chicago, IL
ArtBash,Leroy Neiman Center, Chicago, IL
TACO, 900 W Lake St, Chicago, IL
2017 Illinois High School Art Exhibition, Zhou B. Art Center, Chicago, IL
Illinois High School Senior Portfolio Show,Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL
Loyola Academy Advanced Placement Senior Exhibition, Evanston Art Center,
Evanston, IL
Early College Program Final Show,Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
2016 Tactical Formations, Nation Veterans Art Museum, Chicago, IL
Early College Program Final Show, 280 Building, Chicago, IL
PUBLICATIONS AND AWARDS 2022 E(art)H Grant Finalist 2019
Illustrated “Sun Status” poem published in Dream Book,edited by Esteban Alacron
2017 National Honor Society member
Scholastic Arts and Writing Award Silver Key winner
2016 Exhibitor and scholarship recipient (for SAIC Early College Program) at the Illinois High School Art Exhibition
Scholastic Arts and Writing Award Silver Key winner
2015 First Place and scholarship recipient (for SAIC Early College Program) in Chicago for Catholic Charities Art Competition
Second Place nationally in juried Catholic Charities Art Competition
First place in the juried Illinois Jesuit High School 4x5 Competition