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Erik Daniel White Lives and works in Millbrook, NY
EDUCATION 2019 MFA in Painting and Drawing, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 2013 BS in Art Practices, Portland State University, Portland, OR
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2021 Swift as Sword, Parallelogram Gallery, Tampa, FL 2020 Many Faces of Bill Arning, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY 2019 I borrow my comparisons from clay, being clay myself, Amplify Arts at the Generator Space, Omaha, NE Malleable Perspectives, Eisentrager-Howard Gallery, Lincoln, NE (Thesis Exhibition) Bemis Benefit Art Auction Exhibition, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE Anagrame, Tugboat Gallery, Lincoln, NE $100 Dollar Art Sale, Project Project, Omaha, NE Fantastically Familiar, Ghost Omaha, online platform based out of Omaha, NE 2018 Bad Faith in High Places, Outlook Projects at Turbine Flats, Lincoln, NE (solo) Exquisite Swap Slop Pt. 2, Tugboat Gallery, Lincoln, NE Bridge Work 3, Var West Gallery, Curated by Plum Blossom Initiative and Darger HQ, Milwaukee, WI (one of two artists representing Nebraska’s up and coming artists) Bemis Benefit Art Auction Exhibition, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE Doublethink, UNL Architecture Hall, Lincoln, NE Squiggle, Peace, Squiggle, Three Cups Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE (solo) Peace Out, Medici Gallery, Lincoln, NE (solo) $100 Dollar Art Sale, Project Project, Omaha, NE UNL Graduate Group Show, Marshall County Arts Cooperative, Marysville, KS 2017 Flux: Second Year MFA Candidate Showcase, Eisentrager-Howard Gallery, Lincoln, NE Nebraska Touring, A Traveling exhibition of student work representing the UNL Art and Art History Department, Warren Opera House, Friend, NE, Prairie Arts Center, North Platte, NE, Studio K, Grand Island, NE Bemis Benefit Art Auction Exhibition, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE Tugboat silent auction/fundraiser, Tugboat art gallery, Lincoln, NE Functionless Doodads, Useless Doohickies, Three Cups Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE (solo) UNL-MFA Showcase, Lincoln Country Club, Lincoln, NE 2016 Canvas, Clay, Color, and Form, Iron Tail Gallery, Lincoln, NE 2015 Flowers: A Group Show, Sherman Popup Gallery, Portland, OR A Spurious Excuse for Inaction, Sherman Popup Gallery, Portland, OR (solo) PRINTS, PRINTS and more Prints! Autzen Gallery, Portland, OR 2014 Modeled Abstractions, Littman/White Gallery, Portland, OR (solo) Black and White, Sherman Popup Gallery, Portland, OR 2013 It’s a Still Life, Sherman Popup Gallery, Portland, OR Untitled, Lucas, Portland, OR (solo) Three Years, Neuberger Hall 2nd floor display case, Portland, OR 2011 The 2011 PSU Department of Art Student Scholarship Recipients Exhibition, MK Gallery, Portland, OR
Lincoln Hall Revealed, School of Fine and Performing Arts Alumni Reunion, Lincoln Hall, Portland, OR
Untitled, Neuberger Hall display case, Portland, OR 2010 Untitled, Lyrik Art Gallery, Portland, OR
AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS/ARTIST RESIDENSIES
2020 Resident Awardee, Arteles Creative Center, Haukijärvi, Finland (month of March) 2019 Francis William Vreeland Award, Lincoln, NE
2018 Trickey Memorial Fellowship, Lincoln, NE
Wendy Jane Bantam Exhibition Award, Lincoln, NE
Hixson-Lied Graduate Student Scholarly and Creative Activity Grant, Lincoln, NE Hixson-Lied Student Presentation Grant
2016 – 2019 Hixson-Lied Academic Fellowship
2016 – 2019 Edgren Fellowship
2016 – 2019 Kimmel Fellowship
2011 Lucille Welch Endowed Scholarship
RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
Fall 2019 Teacher of Record for Beginning Drawing, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Teacher of Record for Beginning and Advanced Life Drawing, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Spring 2019 Graduate Teacher for Intermediate Painting, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Fall 2018 Graduate Teacher for Beginning Painting, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Spring 2018 Graduate Teacher for Beginning Drawing, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Fall 2017 Graduate Teaching Assistant for Computational Creativity (a cross disciplinary, online course with the Computer Science department), University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Spring 2017 Graduate Teaching Assistant for Advanced Painting, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
2017 Contracted installer for Cowboys from the Collection Great Plains Art Museum, Lincoln, NE
Fall 2016 Graduate Teaching Assistant for Beginning Painting, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
2012 – 2016 Curator and Director for multiple art exhibitions at art exhibition space out of my home in Portland, OR
2010 – 2012 Art Curator, Food for Thought Art Gallery, Portland, OR
SERVICE 2017 – 2018 Graduate student representative on the Curriculum Committee for the Hixson- Lied School of Fine and Performing Arts at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln
2016 – 2017 Graduate student representative for the Awards and Distinctions Committee for the Hixson-Lied School of Fine and Performing Arts at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln
2016 – 2018 Graduate Student Advisory Board to the Dean and Associate Dean of the Hixson- Lied School of Fine and Performing Arts at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln
2017 Lux Benefit Art Auction, innovation campus, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Lincoln, NE