Erika Blumenfeld
Semifinalist

Erika Blumenfeld (born 1971, lives Houston, TX) has a BFA from Parsons School for Design, New York, NY and an MSc from University College London, UK. Selected exhibitions include: Buffalo AKG Art Museum, NY; DiverseWorks Art Space and Rice University, Houston; Ballroom Marfa, TX; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, OR; New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe; as well as at Stadtgalerie, Kiel, Germany; TATE Modern, London, UK; Färgfabriken Norr, Östersund, Sweden; Galerie der Stadt Mainz-Brückenturm, Germany; Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway; Fondation EDF Espace Electra, Paris, France; Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam, Netherlands; and OCA, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Blumenfeld’s works are in the public collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art. MD; Buffalo AKG Art Museum; Houston Museum of Fine Arts, TX; Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; Lannan Foundation and New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, both Santa Fe; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ; and University College London, UK. Her work has been featured in National GeographicArt in AmericaNature; ARTnewsNew ScientistSeisma Magazine, Camera Arts; Denver Post; and The New York Times. Her work appears in publications, including Polaroid Now (Chronicle Chroma); LUX (Archeology of Photography Foundation/Poland); Art and Ecology Now (Thames & Hudson/UK); Klima Kunst Kultur (Steidl/Germany); Arte da Antarctica (Goethe Institut/Brazil), The Polaroid Book (Taschen/Germany); and Photography: New Mexico (Fresco Fine Art Publications). Blumenfeld has been an artist in residence at NASA Johnson Space Center since 2016 and received an Emerson Collective Fellowship, NASA Johnson Space Center Director’s Innovation Award,  Public Art Award Houston’s Mayors Office of Cultural Affairs & Art League Houston, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Artist Residency; Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Cape Farewell’s Scottish Islands Expedition Residency, Artist Residency SANAE Research Base, Antarctica (2009), Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship; Ballroom Marfa Artist Residency, Creative Capital Award, Polaroid Corporation Film Grants and Lower East Side Printshop Fellowship. She is represented by Inman Gallery in Houston.

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