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ERIC LOPRESTI
Born 1971, Denver
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
eric@ericlopresti.com | www.ericlopresti.com
EDUCATION
2002 M.F.A. Mount Royal School of Art, Maryland Institute, Baltimore MD
1993 B.A. Cognitive Science, University of Rochester, NY
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Rocks and Tapes, Malin Gallery, NYC (upcoming, exhibition catalog)
Center-Surround Japan, Koki Arts, Tokyo (upcoming)
Blueprint Paintings, Uprise Art, NYC
2018 Superbloom, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces NM
An Ocean of Light, Burning in Water, NYC
2017 Blooms, Elizabeth Houston Gallery, NYC
2014 Blueprint Paintings, Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester, NY
Power Corruption and Lies, Uprise Art, Miami Beach FL
2013 No Blue Skies, Kunsthalle Galapagos, NYC
Test Site, National Atomic Test Museum, Las Vegas NV
2012 Forced Collaboration with Amanda Browder, Field Projects, NYC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 A Beauteous Tree, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Los Vegas NV
Summer Group Show, Malin Gallery, NYC
2020 Born To Be Alive, SEASON, Seattle WA
2019 Center-Surround, featured at the 2019 New Ear Festival, Fridman Gallery, NYC
Dry Wit, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas NV
Pool Party, C24 Gallery, NYC
2018 Site, Solomon Gallery at Youngstown State University, Youngstown OH (Exhibition catalog)
2017 No More Deaths / No Más Muertes, Salon 94 Freemans NY
2016 Atomic Landscapes, IDEA Space at Colorado College
SPRNGBRK, Art F City, NYC
2015 Group Exhibition at the Article XIV Conference, United Nations Headquarters, NYC
2014 Inaugural Exhibition, REACH Museum, Richland WA.
Kunsthalle Invitational, Kunsthalle Galapagos, NYC
Return to Rattlesnake Mountain, Wassaic Project, Wassaic NY
2013 This Land, Salisbury University, Salisbury MD (Exhibition catalog)
The West Coast, Uprise Art, NYC
AWARDS
The Carnegie Corporation of New York
The Devasthali Family Foundation Fund
Louis J. Kuriansky Foundation Award
Miami Young Painters, William and Dorothy Yeck Purchase Award
R&D 100 Award
Shorty Award for Data Visualization
Walentas Family Foundation Cultural Subsidy Studio Grant
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND VIDEO INTERVIEWS
2020 Eric LoPresti: An Ocean of Light, video profile, Malin Gallery, Youtube
Eric LoPresti: Center-Surround, Collection Finding Aid, Nevada Museum of Art Center for Art + Environment
Wilson, Michael, In conversation with artists at Griffith Moon Curatorial, Vimeo
2019 Mosher, David, Artist's video reenacts every nuclear explosion in history as deadly martial arts
moves, Business Insider
Sole, D.K, The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Assembles Dry Wit, Nevada Humanities
2018 Cascone, Sarah, Artnet Editor’s Picks, Artnet
Graver, David, Painter Eric LoPresti’s An Ocean of Light at Burning In Water Gallery, Cool Hunting
Johnson, Paddy, Meet the Nuclear Weapons Nerds, Gizmodo
Malley, Clara, NY Painter, Eric LoPresti's Muse is Destruction, The Fullest
Michalska, Aleksandra, New York artist paints to understand nuclear weapons, video interview, Reuters
2017 Baumann, Minerva, Cold War and nuclear testing subject of artist lecture, Los Cruces Sun News
Eric LoPresti Interviewed by Paddy Johnson at Elizabeth Houston Gallery, Vimeo
2016 Eric LoPresti. Blooms, Wall Street International Magazine
Inside the Studio with Eric LoPresti, Uprise Art
2013 Bornfeld, Steve, In-Site-Ful, Vegas Seven Magazine
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS, PROJECTS AND PUBLICATIONS
2021 Artist Talk, Comparative Desert Imaginations, Williams College
2020 Practice-Practice, video project about resilience while under lockdown, Youtube
The Atom in the Garden and the Apocalyptic Fungi, chapter co-author Jaume Valentines-Álvarez,
Gardens and Human Agency in the Anthropocene, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia /
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
2019 Center-Surround, Stevens Institute of Technology, Reinventing Civil Defense, Carnegie Corporation of New York
2018 A Brilliant Violet Flash, University Forum Lecture at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, UNLV
Swipe Right, podcast in collaboration with Paddy Johnson
Artists 4 Democracy SuperPak Postcard Action Kit, contributor, Frieze Art Fair Los Angeles
2017 Reinventing Civil Defense, artist contributor, funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York
and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
The Apocalyptic Sublime, artist lecture at University Art Gallery at New Mexico State University
2016 PechaKucha: Flowers and Nuclear Warfare, Brooklyn Art Library NYC
ICOHTEC 2016, Featured Speaker, Porto Portugal
IMG MGMT: Land Art and the Nuclear Landscape, author, Art F City
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Exit Art Archive
Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
Miami University Art Museum
National Atomic Test Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Nevada Museum of Art Center for Art + Environment
New Mexico State University Art Museum
REACH Museum
University of Washington
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