Erika Harrsch Mexico 1967, vive y trabaja en Nueva York.

Harrsch has lived in several cities throughout the country, as well as Italy, Germany, and Brazil; for the past fourteen years she has lived and worked in New York City. She has been defined as a multidisciplinary artist, employing traditional mediums along with new media and technologies to articulate her concepts and interests.

The formal aspects of her oeuvre and languages investigate diverse fields to achieve visual, multisensory, and interactive experiences: a comprehensive reflection about the body and identity, sexuality, desire, the space that defines us and the one we wish for, the limits and vertiginous freedom that lead to a continuous corporeal and ideological migration.

Harrsch’s solid background as a painter has been essential and visible in her aesthetic process, and her artwork is continually being filtered through images, the representation of the object, spaces, and colors; the work stems from experimentation and the processes themselves, and only later becomes articulated. These visual and formal processes are infused with multilayered references, a complex weave of the strata of meanings, which in turn make possible the extraction of multiple readings and narratives concerned with individual and cultural preoccupations, as well as critical social, political, and environmental issues.

For over six years she has included entomology research as part of her work, using butterflies as a metaphor for themes such as gender, identity, migration, nationality, and the relationship human beings have with their own nature and fragility.

Harrsch has expanded her trajectory to achieve authority status in a wide range of disciplines related to the production of multimedia art. She has established a fertile and captivating language, using tools such as painting, photography, video, animation, installation, interactive projects, and the production and direction of multimedia shows. For the past eight years her interdisciplinary practices have led to collaborations with well-known musicians and composers, including Philip Glass, cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, Claire Chase, Paola Prestini, and Maya Beiser, among others.

Erika Harrsch has been selected to participate in the Fokus-Lodz Biennale, Lodz, Poland, 2010; 798 Biennale, Beijing, China, 2009; International Media Art Biennale, Seoul, South Korea, 2008; Fotofest Biennial, Houston, Texas, 2008; as well as the 6th and 7th FEMSA-Monterrey Biennial, Mexico, in 2003 and 2005.

Her work has been shown in galleries, festivals, and international artistic residencies, as well as the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City), Museo del Barrio (New York City), Nevada Museum of Art (Reno, Nevada), Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (Ridgefield, Connecticut), Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, NY), Bellevue Arts Museum (Bellevue, Washington), in the United States; Göteborg Konstmuseum, Sweden; Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium; Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea; and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (Nuevo León) and Museo de la Ciudad (Querétaro), in Mexico. Her work is included in numerous international public and private collections, including the Musée de la Photographie in Belgium, and the Eaton Corporation and the Fidelity Corporation in the United States.

Solo Exhibitions 2017 -Under the same Sky, Rubin Center at UTEP, El Paso, TX, USA -GE Galeria, Monterrey, México -Beyond Visible, La Cúpula, Mérida, México 2016 -Room 35- Labyrinth video performance, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA

2015 -Imagos, Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile -The Monarch Paradigm. Migration as Metaphor, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, USA -Lens Vivant, Multidisciplinary-living-installation performance, Museo del Barrio, NY, USA 2014 -Room 35, Artspace, Shepard Galleries, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA -Bodymaps cello concerto, Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts, University of Nevada Reno, NV, USA -Room 35, multidisciplinary concert and performance, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA 2013 -Inverted-Sky, ArtGate Gallery New York, NY, USA -United States of North America, Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, UTEP, El Paso, TX, USA -Flow, permanent public art installation, EATON corporation world headquarters, Cleveland, OH, USA -United States of North America Passport Performance at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, USA -An Experience in the Ruins, premier Erika Harrsch-LED Cello Performance Multimedia, National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY, USA 2012 -Under One Sky, Kasia Kay Projects Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA -SKYFUL Kite performance at ORIGINAL MUSIC WORKSHOP, Williamsburg, NY, USA -Inverted Sky Kite Performance, River to River Festival, World Financial Center, NYC, USA 2011 -Cash Cube, VOLTA NY, NYC, USA 2009 -United States of North America, project for the PINTA art fair, NYC, USA 2008 -Eros -Thanatos, Musée de la Photographie a Charleroi, Belgium -Alter-eros, GE Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico 2007 -Object of Desire, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Selected Group Exhibitions 2017 -Between I & Thou, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, USA 2016 -The Incredible Likeness of Being, Marc Straus Gallery, NYC, USA -Immigration / Emigration SFAI 140, Santa Fe Art institute, Santa Fe NM, USA -Eros-Thanatos, Festival a-part / Alpilles-Provence'art, Les Baux-de Provence, France 2015 -Room 35, Cut Out Fest, Querétaro, Mexico -A Common Thread, Bendheim Gallery, The Greenwich Arts Council, Greenwich, CT, USA 2014 -Key Frames: Independent Artists’ Animation, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY, USA -I Love you Festival Zagreb, Contact Girls, Zagreb, Croatia -Time, Bosi Gallery, New York, NY, USA 2013 -Of Hope and Madness, MACLA, San Jose, CA, USA -Fútbol, Arte y Pasión, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey MARCO, Monterrey, México 2012 -How Much Do I Owe You?, No Longer Empty, The Clock Tower, Long Island City, NY, USA -United States the Exhibition, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, USA -Paradox: The Limits of Liberty, Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2011 -Travelers, Objects of Dream and Revelation, Bellevue Arts Museum, WA, USA 2010-8th International Women Art Festival, Aleppo, Syria

2009 -Constellations, Tokyo-Gallery BTAP Beijing 798 Biennale 2009 -Status Report, BRIC Contemporary Arts/Media/Bklyn. NY, USA 2008 -Over the Rainbow, 16 artists from New York City in Seoul, Yoo Art Space Gallery, Seoul, Korea. -Introduction: Future Dialogues, Dean Project Gallery, LIC, NY, USA

Selected Residencies and Awards 2016 -Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA 2014 -SOTA Series Award-Visiting Artist Residency, Department of Art-School of the Arts, University of Nevada, Reno, USA. -Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Room 35, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA 2013 -eDream Institute Emerging Digital Research-Education in the Arts Media Institute, National Center for Super Computing Applications, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA -NEA, National Endowment for the Arts Award for Multimedia, Room 35, VisionIntoArt 2012 -The Gaea Foundation Award-Sea Change Residency, Provincetown, MA, USA 2008 -Mex-Am, Foundation Award, New York, USA 2007 -SoundRes, festival and residency, Lecce, Italy 2003 -Honorable mention, Monterrey Sixth Biennial FEMSA, Monterrey, Mexico