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
2006 Residency culminating in solo exhibition, the Drake Hotel, Toronto
Solo Exhibiition, Rokeby Gallery, London

2004 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
2006 Group drawing exhibiition, Jack Hanley, San Francisco
Two-person exhibition with Marcel Dzama, CCA, Glasgow
The Obsessive and Compulsive Body, Lee- Ka Sing Gallery, Toronto
Fragmentation of the Self, Rush Arts Gallery, New York
Glasgow Smile, ALM, Munich
Supernovas, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg

2005 New Contemporaries, Cornerhouse, Manchester (and tour)
The Trap and The Rope, the Jail, Glasgow
It's the Same Outside, curated by Daniel Fuller, the Drake Hotel, Toronto
Up and Coming Video Screening #1, Galerie Adler, Frankfurt
Glasgow International Festival, film screening at Glasgow Sculpture Studios,Glasgow
Glasgow Art Fair, with Laplands, Glasgow
Bloc, Bowieart, White Space Gallery, County Hall, London
Artificial Light Film Screening, SAW, Ottawa
Last Chicken in Sainsbury’s, curated by Laurence Elliot,the Chateau, Glasgow
2004 International Exchange Exhibition, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York
Braveart, the Artium Gallery at Whiteleys, London
Toronto Art Fair, with the othergallery, Toronto
Cardboard Factory, the leisure club Mogadishni, Copenhagen
The Late Escape, with Mick Peters, Kaiserpassage 21a, Karlsruhe
the othergallery, on-line gallery, www.othergallery.com
Scope Art Fair, with the othergallery, Los Angeles
M.F.A. Degree Show, Tramway, Glasgow
Herald Feminist Film And Video Festival, Calgary
Super Salon, Samson Projects, Boston
Portobello Film Festival, Bowieart, London
CCA Talks, artist talk, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow
Victoria Independent Film Festival, Victoria

2003 International Contemporary Drawing, The Gallery of the
Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou; the Gallery of the Central Academy of
Fine Arts, Beijing; the Gallery of Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, Xi’an,China.
Split Film Festival, Split, Croatia
Garage Film Festival, Strasuland, Germany
Rock Candy, residency and exhibition, Hotel Mariakapel, Hoorn, Holland
Film Independent Festival Des Arts, Montreal

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
BorderCrossings, Magazine of the Arts, Manitoba, issue 92, 2004
Uncle Chop Chop, Beagles and Ramsay publication, 2005