Education
- 2007
- Masters of Fine Arts, Painting and Drawing, University of Washington, Seattle
- 2003
- Bachelor of Arts, Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley
Awards/Residencies/Honors
2011 4Culture Artist Project Award
2011 Jentel Foundation Artist Residency
2011 Vermont Studio Center Residency
Drawing Center Viewing Program
2009 Neddy Artist Fellowship
2009 4Culture Artist Project Award
2008 Kayla Skinner Special Recognition Award, Seattle Art Museum
2008 Artist Trust GAP Grant
2003 James Phalen Art Scholarship
2002 Maybelle Toombs Art Scholarship
Representation
James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
Prographica, Seattle, WA
Solo Exhibitions
- 2013
- Pairings, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
- 2011
- Residual Forms, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
- 2009
- New Paintings, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
- 2008
- Transitions, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
Group Exhibitions
- 2013
- The Pruzan Collection, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA (upcoming)
- Zwischerliecht, LxWxH, Seattle, WA (upcoming-August)
- Art-A-Phone, 826 Seattle, Seattle, WA
- The Seattle Sketchbook Show, Steele Gallery, Seattle, WA
- Artists of Prographica, Bellevue College Gallery Space, Bellevue, WA
- 2012
- Mum's the Word, Mills Pond Gallery, St.James, NY
- Still, Archer Gallery, Vancouver, WA
- The Space Between, Prographica Gallery, Seattle, WA
- Decoy, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA
- 40+Years of Richard Shaw's Students, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley CA
- Mirage, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
- 2011
- Inventing an Illusive Space, Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland, WA
- Seattle Artists, Gallery 206, Seattle, WA
- Hearing the Backbeat, Prographica, Seattle, WA
- 2010
- A Preview of Things to Come, Prographica, Seattle, WA
- Ripe, Seattle Pacific Art Center, Seattle, WA
- Honoring 15 Years of Neddy Fellows, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
- You’re So Cool, OHGE Ltd., Seattle, WA
- Meet Greet Rinse and Repeat, Monarch Contemporary, Seattle, WA
- Parallel Universes, Grey Gallery, Seattle, WA
- 2009
- On Paper, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY
- Gather Image, Fugitive Form, Kittredge Gallery, Tacoma, WA
- Refracting Space, Steele Gallery, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA
- West Coast Drawings VIII, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Culver City, CA
- Neddy Artist Fellowship, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
- 9th Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
- 2008
- Deep Space Punctuated by Planets, Soil Gallery, Seattle, WA
- Message in a Bottle, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
- Black & White Show, Catherine Person Gallery, Seattle, WA
- Seven Propositions, Ouch My Eye, Seattle, WA
- Bifocal, Ouch My Eye, Seattle, WA
- 2007
- MFA Thesis Show, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
- 2006
- Works on Paper, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
- SP1, Sand Point First Year MFA Painting Exhibition, Seattle WA
- 2005
- Works in Progress, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle WA
- 2003
- Fall Honor Studio Show, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley CA
- New Works, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley CA
- Spring Honor Studio Show, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley CA
- 2002
- Ghosts of Kroebis, Fall Arts Festival, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley CA
- The Dirt Show, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley CA
- 2000
- Art One Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Articles and Reviews
New and Notable: Eric Elliott, by Austin R. Williams,
Drawing Magazine, Vol. 9, Issue 35, Fall 2012, pages 18 & 19
Prographica's 'Space Between Things': the lure of the void, by Micheal Upchurch,
Seattle Times, October 5, 2012
Artists build a skillful 'Architectural View' at Prographica, by Gale Clemans,
Seattle Times, November 11, 2011, Section E, pg. 32
Inventing an Illusive Space, by Andrew Bartels, Artdish, August 2011
Eric Elliott at James Harris Gallery, Seattle, Washington, by Adriana Grant, Visual Arts Source, April 2011
Hearing the Backbeat at Prographica, by Gary Faigin, Artdish, March 2011
Seattle Exhibition: Eric Elliott, by Matthew Kangas, Art in America, Nov. 2009, pg. 203
A quartet of evocatively murky painters muddy the walls of Kittredge Gallery, by Dave R. Davison, Tacoma Weekly, Nov. 4th, 2009,Section C, Page 4
Artist Profile, by Suzanne Beal, Art Ltd., Sept/Oct 2009, pg. 48
Tone Poem, by David Stoesz, Seattle Weekly, September 16-22, 2009, pg. 55
Shades of Gray, by Greg Bell, City Arts -Tacoma, WA, March 2009, pg. 30
The Men Who Knew Too Much, by Jen Graves, The Stranger- Seattle, WA, July 15, 2008, pg. 31
Paintings by Carlos Vega and Eric Elliott Are a Must-See at Harris Gallery, by Regina Hackett,
Seattle Post Intelligencer, July 10, 2007, pg. 25
Hold Still, by Jen Graves, The Stranger- Seattle, Washington, February 19, 2008, pg. 23
Henry and the Masters, by Regina Hackett, Seattle Post Intelligencer, May 25, 2007
Professional Experience
Artist Lectures:
Highline Community College: 5/2011; University of Puget Sound: 11/2009
Gage Academy of Art: 9/2009 & 11/2011; Tacoma Art Museum: 4/2009
Teaching:
Adjunct Instructor, Highline Community College, Des Moines WA, 9/08-Present
Art Instructor, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle 6/07- Present
Art Instructor, North Seattle Community College, Cont. Education, 6/07- 11/08
Adjunct Instructor, University of Washington, Seattle, Fall 2007, Spring 2007 & 2006
Studio Assistant:
Norman Lundin, November 2005 – May 2009
Adelie Landis-Bischoff, April 2004 – May 2005