Erik Shane Swanson

EDUCATION

2014

MFA Candidate, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

2013

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine (summer)

2005

BFA, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California

2003

Willem De Kooning Academie, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Semester Abroad

AWARDS

2013

Art Ball Graduate Student Prize, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

2012 – 2013

Marshall F. Wells Scholarship and Fellowship Endowment, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

2012 – 2013

M.K. Hage Endowed Scholarship in Fine Arts, University of Texas at Austin

2011 – 2012

David Bruton, Jr. Endowment for Graduate Fellowships in the College of Fine Arts, University of Texas at Austin

2001 – 2005

National Portfolio Day Scholaship, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA

RESIDENCIES

2012

Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

2008

Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

EXHIBITIONS

2013

In Our/Their/Your Midst, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX (upcoming)

Something Lost, Co-Lab, Austin, TX and Trinity University, San Antonio, TX (upcoming)

Under the Moon Tower, David Shelton Gallery, Houston, TX

A Houston Trilogy, BLUEorange, Houston, TX

2012

Crest Hardware Art Show, Crest Hardware, Brooklyn, NY

2011

Realm, Slag Gallery ,New York, NY

2009

Onderdonk Space, Queens, New York, NY

2006

Everything But the Kitschen Sync,· La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles, CA

2005

The Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Erik Shane Swanson, Polychromatic Pentaptych, 2013, enamel and acetone on panel, 19 x 75 in.
Erik Shane Swanson, installation view