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
June 2025
May 2021
May 2021
DePaul University, Master of Education in Visual Arts K-12
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Bachelors in Fine Arts
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Bachelors in Fine Arts
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Aug 2024- June 2025
Jan 2024 - May 2024
Jan 2023 - May 2023
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
Oct 2021 - May 2022
Sept 2021 - May 2022
June 2021- Aug 2021June 2018 - June 2021
June 2017 - Aug 2017
Jan 2024 - May 2024
Jan 2023 - May 2023
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
Oct 2021 - May 2022
Sept 2021 - May 2022
June 2021- Aug 2021June 2018 - June 2021
June 2017 - Aug 2017
Resident Teaching Artist, Chicago Academy High School
Teaching Artist, The Simple Good Chicago
Teaching Artist, YMCA, Chicago, IL
Teaching Artist, Marwen School of Art, Chicago, IL
Studio Assistant, Nick Cave’s “Facility” Studio, Chicago, IL
Teaching Artist at One River School of Art + Design, Evanston, IL
Resident Artist at Bethel Horizons, Madison, WI
SITE Gallery assistant, Chicago, IL
Gallery 37 Intern, Chicago, IL
Teaching Artist, The Simple Good Chicago
Teaching Artist, YMCA, Chicago, IL
Teaching Artist, Marwen School of Art, Chicago, IL
Studio Assistant, Nick Cave’s “Facility” Studio, Chicago, IL
Teaching Artist at One River School of Art + Design, Evanston, IL
Resident Artist at Bethel Horizons, Madison, WI
SITE Gallery assistant, Chicago, IL
Gallery 37 Intern, Chicago, IL
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
2023
2023
Beside Oneself, One River School of Art and Design, Evanston,IL
Unscratchable Itch, Positive Space Studios, Chicago, IL
Unscratchable Itch, Positive Space Studios, Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
Survival Classes, Facility Theater, Chicago, IL
Despair Mirage, Postive Space Studios, Chicago, IL
Avondalia, The Art Colony, Chicago, IL
Beautiful and Strange Fragmentation, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
Time, Memory, Mythos, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL New Moon, Positive Space Studios, Chicago, IL
*eyelash flutter*, Hawthorne Contemporary, Milwaukee, WI
Where We Are, SITE Galleries, Chicago, IL
Spring Undergraduate Exhibition, SAIC Galleries, Chicago, IL
ExFest Juried Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago,IL
Incubator, SITE Galleries, Chicago, IL
Performance of Proposition Festival, Chicago, IL
Moving Images of the Present Performance Festival, Chicago, IL
Memory Palace, TUUB, Utrecht, Netherlands
Ontmoeting in het Onmeetbare, Nieuwe Kerk, Amersfoort, NL
Diorama by Ingri Fiksdal for the MCA, Millennium Park,Chicago,IL
Soft Spot, SITE Galleries, Chicago, IL
ArtBash, Leroy Neiman Center, Chicago, IL
TACO, 900 W Lake St, Chicago, IL
Despair Mirage, Postive Space Studios, Chicago, IL
Avondalia, The Art Colony, Chicago, IL
Beautiful and Strange Fragmentation, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
Time, Memory, Mythos, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL New Moon, Positive Space Studios, Chicago, IL
*eyelash flutter*, Hawthorne Contemporary, Milwaukee, WI
Where We Are, SITE Galleries, Chicago, IL
Spring Undergraduate Exhibition, SAIC Galleries, Chicago, IL
ExFest Juried Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago,IL
Incubator, SITE Galleries, Chicago, IL
Performance of Proposition Festival, Chicago, IL
Moving Images of the Present Performance Festival, Chicago, IL
Memory Palace, TUUB, Utrecht, Netherlands
Ontmoeting in het Onmeetbare, Nieuwe Kerk, Amersfoort, NL
Diorama by Ingri Fiksdal for the MCA, Millennium Park,Chicago,IL
Soft Spot, SITE Galleries, Chicago, IL
ArtBash, Leroy Neiman Center, Chicago, IL
TACO, 900 W Lake St, Chicago, IL
PUBLICATIONS AND AWARDS
2024
2022
2019
2022
2019
Guest Lecturer, Art Institute of Chicago
E(art)H Grant Finalist
Illustrated “Sun Status” poem published in Dream Book,edited by Esteban Alacron
E(art)H Grant Finalist
Illustrated “Sun Status” poem published in Dream Book,edited by Esteban Alacron