TR Ericsson
TR Ericsson (b. 1972) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and Painsville, Ohio.
Since the untimely death of his mother in 2003, TR Ericsson has obsessively constructed an expansive and conceptual mixed-media project investigating the lives of the artist, his family, and the changing cultural landscape that impacted each generation. At the core of his practice is a desire to understand what one can know about another’s suffering and the value of that understanding. Ericsson begins with an archive of inherited photographs and documents, repurposing these artifacts with traditional as well as experimental art materials to develop a series of intertwining narratives centered around the artist’s mother. These intimate vignettes expand into universal declarations on time, love, loss, memory, and addiction.
This ongoing project has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions including the Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, US), The Print Center (Philadelphia, US), the Cleveland Museum of Art (US), Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp - KMD (Cully, CH), The Sculpture Center (Cleveland, US), and the Progressive Art Collection (Cleveland, US) to name a few.
Ericsson has participated in group exhibitions at institutions such as The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery (Washington D.C., US), the SCAD Museum of Art (Savannah, US), The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (New York, US), the Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas, US), the Aperture Foundation (New York, US), the International Center of Photography - ICP (New York, US), the Orlando Museum of Art (Orlando, US), The Ackland Art Museum (Chapel Hill, US), the Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts (Springfield, US), the Grand Rapids Art Museum (Grand Rapids, US), Le Botanique (Brussels, BE), and many others.
His work has been acquired by museums across the USA including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art (NY), the Dallas Museum of Art and many other private and public collections, such as the JP Morgan Chase Collection, the Agnes Gund Collection, or the Pfizer and Progressive Art Corporate Collections respectively. His books and zines can be found in numerous library collections including the Yale University Arts Library (New Haven, US), the Museum of Modern Art Library (New York, US), and the Smithsonian Institution Libraries (Washington, US). In 2024, he published his latest artist’s book, Nicotine, with TBW Books.
