Erin Leland
B. 1985 (Knoxville, Tennessee)
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
Contact:
erin.leland1@gmail.com
Erin Leland is a writer, actor and artist, and was the founding director of Bridget Donahue in New York from 2015-2022.
B. 1985 (Knoxville, Tennessee)
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
Contact:
erin.leland1@gmail.com
Erin Leland is a writer, actor and artist, and was the founding director of Bridget Donahue in New York from 2015-2022.
Education
2010
Master of Fine Arts, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2007
Bachelor of Arts, The University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee
2006
National Exchange Program at Hunter College, New York, New York
2006
International Exchange Program at Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
Solo Exhibitions
2018
Marmalade, The Fort, Brooklyn, New York, February 3 - March 18
2016
Catwalk Informed by a Priest, Providence College – Galleries, Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island, August 24 – October 8
2013
Traces To Form Concrete Thoughts, Weltraum 26, Munich, Germany, September 27 – October 4
Everything Is Everything, Michael Strogoff Gallery, Marfa, Texas, April 5 – 26
2011
Critical of Tan, ACRE Projects, Chicago, Illinois, January 30
2010
Untitled (Artist Talk), The Watermill Center, Long Island, New York, November 6
2007
Self-portraits, Fluorescent Gallery, Knoxville, Tennessee, October 26 – 30
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
White Columns Online: ‘Private Behavior’ curated by Lauren Marinaro, White Columns, online exhibition, New York, New York, June 18 - September 12
When We First Arrived..., The Corner at Whitman-Walker, Washington, D.C., January 25 - July 19
2019
Wings, Evening Hours, reading, New York, New York, April 27
2018
Zebra, La Kaje Place, two person reading with Mark Beasley, Brooklyn, New York, April 7
2017
The Newest Romantics: Sculptors of Botanical Photography, New Art Center, Newton, Massachusetts, January 20 – March 25
2016
The Pop-Up Postcard Project, curated by Servane Mary and Michel Auder, Cleopatra's, Brooklyn, New York, January 17 – February 8
2015
Compound Lens, Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, January 11 – February 6
2014
Psychic Panic, SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 16 – June 29
Conversation Hearts: You Slayer Me, Rainbo Club, Chicago, Illinois, February 14 – March 13
2013
White Petals Surround Your Yellow Heart, Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 6 – July 28
How Do I Look?, Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago, Illinois, February 22 – March 23
2012
We Started with the Eyes, publication release with Marja-Leena Sillanpää, Golden Gallery, New York, New York, July 1
2010
Quarterly Site #3: Stay in Your Lane, Swimming Pool Project Space, Chicago, Illinois, July 17 – August 15
Engender Trouble, Iceberg Projects, Chicago, Illinois, June 26 – July 31
New Insight Exhibition at Art Chicago, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, Illinois, curated by Susanne Ghez, April 30 – May 3
NEXT: The Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art at Art Chicago, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, Illinois, April 30 – May 3
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Gallery 400, Chicago, Illinois, March 16 – March 20
Curatorial
2023
Simon Liu, Let’s Talk, solo exhibition featuring world premiere installation of Liu’s film Let’s Talk with auxiliary group screening program and live projector performance, KAJE, Brooklyn, New York, August 20 - Sepember 17
2022
Modesto Flako Jimenez, premiere of theatrical play in-progress Mercedes and exhibition incorporating archival narrative material within constructed stage set, KAJE, Brooklyn, New York, March 11 - April 9
2022
Morgan Bassichis, Questions to Ask Beforehand,
solo exhibition with performance program, Bridget Donahue, New York, New York, March 25 - May 14
2019
Stranger Approaching, group exhibition, Bridget Donahue, New York, New York, September 8 - November 3
Residencies
2017
Theater for Beginners Workshop with Richard Maxwell and The New York City Players, New York (Summer)
2013
Villa Waldberta, Munich, Germany (Fall)
2011
The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada (Spring)
2010
Watermill Center Residency, Long Island, New York (Fall)
ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions), Steuben, Wisconsin/ Chicago, Illinois (Summer)
Selected Bibliography
2019
Viola Angiolini, "'Stranger Approaching' at Bridget Donahue", Mousse Magazine, October 15,
http://moussemagazine.it/viola-angiolini-bridget-donahue-new-york-2019/
Dean Kissick, "The September Openings: New York's Must-See Shows", Cultured Magazine, September 4, https://www.culturedmag.com/the-september-openings/
2017
"The Cat's Meow", Cultured Magazine, Winter, 114
Sarah Baker, "The Newest Romantics: Sculptors of Botanical Photography, "Art New England, March/ April
2015
Interview with Todd Steed, Changing Course, Knoxville Public Radio, WUOT-2, Knoxville, Tennessee, January 31
Les Femmes Folles: The Women 2014, ed. Sally Deskins, image and statement printed in anthology, Blurb: Deskins
2014
“Sally Deskins Interviews Olivia Ciummo and Erin Leland of 'Psychic Panic' at SPACE Gallery,” Pittsburgh Articulate, July 14
Anthony Elms, “Advertorial,” Bulletins of the Serving Library #6, essay as a loose-leaf insert, released at MoMA PS1, New York, March 2
2013
Chip Schwartz,“ICA Gets Fashionable with White Petals Surround Your Yellow Heart,” Theartblog, March 11,
www.theartblog.org/2013/03/ica-white-petals-surround-your-yellow-heart/
“White Petals Surround Your Yellow Heart at Institute of Contemporary Art,” Contemporary Art Daily, May 12, http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2013/05/white-petals-surround-your-yellow- heart-at-institute-of-contemporary-art/,
2012
Jose Macian, Sue Jane Stoker, and Jorn Weisbrodt, eds. The Watermill Center – A Laboratory of Performance: Robert Wilson’s Legacy, image and citation printed, Stuttgart: DACO, January 31
2010
Art Chicago/ Next: On-Site Exhibitions & Public Programming, image featured in exhibition catalogue, May 3
Selected Publications
2023
“Every Day’s Joys”, Spike Art Magazine, #77 Field Guide to AI, Winter 2023, https://www.spikeartmagazine.com/?q=articles/views-jonathan-lyndon-chase-artists-space-new-york-2023
2021
“The Big Picture”, Cultured Magazine, February/March,
https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2021/03/12/artist-amalia-ulman-makes-the-jump-to-feature-filmmaking-with-el-planeta
2020
“Neighbors”, Scene Report, Issue #2, Spring, Los Angeles: Dominica, Inc.
"Young at Heart", Cultured Magazine, February/March,
https://www.culturedmag.com/michael-almereyda/
2019
"On an Island in the Future with Meriem Bennani", Cultured Magazine, Summer,
https://www.culturedmag.com/meriem-bennani-whitney-biennial/
"Tell Me Something Good", Cultured Magazine, April/May,
https://www.culturedmag.com/vaquera-moma-ps1/
"The Long Take", Cultured Magazine, February/March, text and portraits,
https://www.culturedmag.com/kevin-jerome-everson/
2015
“Notes On Blue: Interview with Moyra Davey,” interview with artist Moyra Davey, Bad at Sports: Contemporary Art Talk, June 12, http://badatsports.com/2015/notes-on-blue-interview-with-moyra-davey/
"Hilton Als on Writing", interview with Hilton Als, Bad at Sports: Contemporary Art Talk, January 9, http://badatsports.com/2015/hilton-als-on-writing/
2014
“Untitled (Six Digital Collages),” Monsters & Dust, 4, Winter, 108 – 114
2012
Marja-Leena Sillanpää and Erin Leland, “We Started With the Eyes,” satumaa*kustantamo, booklet and sound recording, July 1
“Story of the Eye” and “Self-portrait,” Musée Magazine, images featured in online monthly publication, March 16, 130-131
2011
“Employing My Double” and “Accidental Sightings,” Blast Counterblast, eds. Anthony Elms and Steve Reinke, Toronto: Mercer Union, 161-165
2010
Master of Fine Arts, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2007
Bachelor of Arts, The University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee
2006
National Exchange Program at Hunter College, New York, New York
2006
International Exchange Program at Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
Solo Exhibitions
2018
Marmalade, The Fort, Brooklyn, New York, February 3 - March 18
2016
Catwalk Informed by a Priest, Providence College – Galleries, Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island, August 24 – October 8
2013
Traces To Form Concrete Thoughts, Weltraum 26, Munich, Germany, September 27 – October 4
Everything Is Everything, Michael Strogoff Gallery, Marfa, Texas, April 5 – 26
2011
Critical of Tan, ACRE Projects, Chicago, Illinois, January 30
2010
Untitled (Artist Talk), The Watermill Center, Long Island, New York, November 6
2007
Self-portraits, Fluorescent Gallery, Knoxville, Tennessee, October 26 – 30
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
White Columns Online: ‘Private Behavior’ curated by Lauren Marinaro, White Columns, online exhibition, New York, New York, June 18 - September 12
When We First Arrived..., The Corner at Whitman-Walker, Washington, D.C., January 25 - July 19
2019
Wings, Evening Hours, reading, New York, New York, April 27
2018
Zebra, La Kaje Place, two person reading with Mark Beasley, Brooklyn, New York, April 7
2017
The Newest Romantics: Sculptors of Botanical Photography, New Art Center, Newton, Massachusetts, January 20 – March 25
2016
The Pop-Up Postcard Project, curated by Servane Mary and Michel Auder, Cleopatra's, Brooklyn, New York, January 17 – February 8
2015
Compound Lens, Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, January 11 – February 6
2014
Psychic Panic, SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 16 – June 29
Conversation Hearts: You Slayer Me, Rainbo Club, Chicago, Illinois, February 14 – March 13
2013
White Petals Surround Your Yellow Heart, Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 6 – July 28
How Do I Look?, Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago, Illinois, February 22 – March 23
2012
We Started with the Eyes, publication release with Marja-Leena Sillanpää, Golden Gallery, New York, New York, July 1
2010
Quarterly Site #3: Stay in Your Lane, Swimming Pool Project Space, Chicago, Illinois, July 17 – August 15
Engender Trouble, Iceberg Projects, Chicago, Illinois, June 26 – July 31
New Insight Exhibition at Art Chicago, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, Illinois, curated by Susanne Ghez, April 30 – May 3
NEXT: The Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art at Art Chicago, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, Illinois, April 30 – May 3
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Gallery 400, Chicago, Illinois, March 16 – March 20
Curatorial
2023
Simon Liu, Let’s Talk, solo exhibition featuring world premiere installation of Liu’s film Let’s Talk with auxiliary group screening program and live projector performance, KAJE, Brooklyn, New York, August 20 - Sepember 17
2022
Modesto Flako Jimenez, premiere of theatrical play in-progress Mercedes and exhibition incorporating archival narrative material within constructed stage set, KAJE, Brooklyn, New York, March 11 - April 9
2022
Morgan Bassichis, Questions to Ask Beforehand,
solo exhibition with performance program, Bridget Donahue, New York, New York, March 25 - May 14
2019
Stranger Approaching, group exhibition, Bridget Donahue, New York, New York, September 8 - November 3
Residencies
2017
Theater for Beginners Workshop with Richard Maxwell and The New York City Players, New York (Summer)
2013
Villa Waldberta, Munich, Germany (Fall)
2011
The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada (Spring)
2010
Watermill Center Residency, Long Island, New York (Fall)
ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions), Steuben, Wisconsin/ Chicago, Illinois (Summer)
Selected Bibliography
2019
Viola Angiolini, "'Stranger Approaching' at Bridget Donahue", Mousse Magazine, October 15,
http://moussemagazine.it/viola-angiolini-bridget-donahue-new-york-2019/
Dean Kissick, "The September Openings: New York's Must-See Shows", Cultured Magazine, September 4, https://www.culturedmag.com/the-september-openings/
2017
"The Cat's Meow", Cultured Magazine, Winter, 114
Sarah Baker, "The Newest Romantics: Sculptors of Botanical Photography, "Art New England, March/ April
2015
Interview with Todd Steed, Changing Course, Knoxville Public Radio, WUOT-2, Knoxville, Tennessee, January 31
Les Femmes Folles: The Women 2014, ed. Sally Deskins, image and statement printed in anthology, Blurb: Deskins
2014
“Sally Deskins Interviews Olivia Ciummo and Erin Leland of 'Psychic Panic' at SPACE Gallery,” Pittsburgh Articulate, July 14
Anthony Elms, “Advertorial,” Bulletins of the Serving Library #6, essay as a loose-leaf insert, released at MoMA PS1, New York, March 2
2013
Chip Schwartz,“ICA Gets Fashionable with White Petals Surround Your Yellow Heart,” Theartblog, March 11,
www.theartblog.org/2013/03/ica-white-petals-surround-your-yellow-heart/
“White Petals Surround Your Yellow Heart at Institute of Contemporary Art,” Contemporary Art Daily, May 12, http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2013/05/white-petals-surround-your-yellow- heart-at-institute-of-contemporary-art/,
2012
Jose Macian, Sue Jane Stoker, and Jorn Weisbrodt, eds. The Watermill Center – A Laboratory of Performance: Robert Wilson’s Legacy, image and citation printed, Stuttgart: DACO, January 31
2010
Art Chicago/ Next: On-Site Exhibitions & Public Programming, image featured in exhibition catalogue, May 3
Selected Publications
2023
“Every Day’s Joys”, Spike Art Magazine, #77 Field Guide to AI, Winter 2023, https://www.spikeartmagazine.com/?q=articles/views-jonathan-lyndon-chase-artists-space-new-york-2023
2021
“The Big Picture”, Cultured Magazine, February/March,
https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2021/03/12/artist-amalia-ulman-makes-the-jump-to-feature-filmmaking-with-el-planeta
2020
“Neighbors”, Scene Report, Issue #2, Spring, Los Angeles: Dominica, Inc.
"Young at Heart", Cultured Magazine, February/March,
https://www.culturedmag.com/michael-almereyda/
2019
"On an Island in the Future with Meriem Bennani", Cultured Magazine, Summer,
https://www.culturedmag.com/meriem-bennani-whitney-biennial/
"Tell Me Something Good", Cultured Magazine, April/May,
https://www.culturedmag.com/vaquera-moma-ps1/
"The Long Take", Cultured Magazine, February/March, text and portraits,
https://www.culturedmag.com/kevin-jerome-everson/
2015
“Notes On Blue: Interview with Moyra Davey,” interview with artist Moyra Davey, Bad at Sports: Contemporary Art Talk, June 12, http://badatsports.com/2015/notes-on-blue-interview-with-moyra-davey/
"Hilton Als on Writing", interview with Hilton Als, Bad at Sports: Contemporary Art Talk, January 9, http://badatsports.com/2015/hilton-als-on-writing/
2014
“Untitled (Six Digital Collages),” Monsters & Dust, 4, Winter, 108 – 114
2012
Marja-Leena Sillanpää and Erin Leland, “We Started With the Eyes,” satumaa*kustantamo, booklet and sound recording, July 1
“Story of the Eye” and “Self-portrait,” Musée Magazine, images featured in online monthly publication, March 16, 130-131
2011
“Employing My Double” and “Accidental Sightings,” Blast Counterblast, eds. Anthony Elms and Steve Reinke, Toronto: Mercer Union, 161-165