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ERIN POLLOCK [email protected] www.erinpollock.com
B. 1982, Anchorage, Alaska. Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY EDUCATION M.F.A., Painting, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY, 2018 Studio Arts Centers International, Florence, Italy, 2007 B.A., Studio Art, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, 2004 AWARDS, GRANTS, RESIDENCIES 2021 Best Short Film - The Arthouse Film Festival, Austin, TX Best Animated Short Film - Esoteric International Film Festival, Moscow, Russia Best Animation Short Film - Accord Cine Fest, Mumbai, India Best Experimental Short Film - Vancouver Independent Film Festival, Vancouver, BC Honorable Mention - Milan Gold Awards, Milan, Italy 2020 Svankmajer Award for Best Animation - Austin Arthouse Film Festival, Austin, TX Best Animated Short Film- Esoteric International Film Festival, Moscow, Russia Best Animation Cinematography - NY Cinematography Awards, New York, NY Best Animation Short - Indie Short Fest, Los Angeles, CA Best Animation & Experimental Short Finalist - Madrid Film Awards, Madrid, Spain Best Experimental Short Finalist- Golden Short Film Festival, Rome, Italy Best Experimental & Animation Short Film Finalist - IndieX Film Fest, Los Angeles, CA Honorable Mention for Experimental Film - New York Movie Awards, New York, NY 2019 Best Animation Short Film Finalist - LA Femme Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA Jentel Foundation Artist Residency, Banner, WY 2018 Chubb Post Graduate Fellowship, The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY The Will Cotton Artist Grant, New York, NY 2017 Merit Scholarship, The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY 2016 Residency at The Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China 2014 4Culture, Project Grant, Seattle, WA 2012 4Culture, Project Grant, Seattle, WA 2011 MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, New Hampshire Robert Maxwell Foundation Fellowship, Washington, DC 2010 Project Grant, Rasmuson Foundation, Alaska FILMS (Festivals and Screenings of Mixed Media Stop-Motion Animations): • Edward Tulane Choral Suite (2021) Collaboration with Composer Paola Prestini (Music and concept), Mark Campbell (Libretto), and Sxip Shirey (Audio Production, electronic arrangement, and sound design). A commission of new music and animation for the Minnesota Opera. Premiered December 2021. • Jarful of Bees (2021) A commission of new music and film for Beth Morrison and Paola Prestini's Liederabend Festival. Premiered on PBS/WNET. Made in collaboration with Paola Prestini (composer), Natalie Frank (painter), Eve Gigliotti (soprano), and Royce Vavrek (librettist). • Soot (2020) Premiered at Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI • Lucky Mud (2019) Screened at: Art Basel Collector’s Lounge / Arthouse Film Festival, Austin, TX / Berlin Revolution Film Festival, Berlin, Germany / Bermuda International Film Festival - Hamilton, Bermuda / Brooklyn Silent Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY / Buenos Aires International Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina / Classical Arts Film Festival - Napa, CA / Esoteric International Film Festival, Moscow, Russia / Golden Short Film Festival, Rome, Italy / Indie Short Fest - Los Angeles, CA / IndieX Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA / Los Angeles International Film Festival - Indie Short Fest, Los Angeles, CA / Madrid Film Awards, Madrid, Spain / New York Cinematography Awards, New York, NY / New Filmmakers New York - New York, NY / New York Movie Awards, New York, NY / Paris Film Awards - Paris, France / Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival, Tokyo, Japan / Vancouver Independent Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada • Sui Generis (2018) Screened at: Los Angeles International Film Festival - Indie Short Fest, Los Angeles, CA / Portland Film Festival, Portland, OR / Unrestricted View Film Festival, London, UK / Harlem International Film Festival, New York, NY • I made you. I loved you. I destroyed you. (2013) Collaboration with Steph Kese. Premiered July 2013 at the Belltown Collective, Seattle, WA • 367 lbs of wax (2009) Collaboration with Steph Kese. Premiered June 2009 at MTS Gallery, Anchorage, AK • The Pact (2007) Collaboration with Steph Kese. Premiered May 2007 at Cannes Short Film Corner, Cannes, France EXHIBITIONS 2023 Dreamyth, Immersive multimedia performance in collaboration with Arctic Rhizomes (Kittiwake, Jesus Landin-Torres, Ruby Kennell) Look Up, Public Art Installation for King County Metro, Seattle, WA 2022 TBD, Glass Box Gallery, Seattle, WA 2019 Concept 2019, CICA Museum, Gyeonggi-do, Korea Art New York, Pier 94, New York, NY (Curators: Helena Christensen, David Kratz) 2018 First Salon Show, GreenPoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Somewhat Unwanted, Los 14 Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico 2017 Little but Fierce, Chashama Gallery, New York, NY (Curator: Cameron Ledy) Sui Generis, IGCA Gallery, Anchorage, AK 2016 JoeBar Anniversary Exhibition, Seattle, WA Trump Can’t Stop Us, Gristle Gallery, New York, NY 2015 The Good Fight, JoeBar Gallery, Seattle, WA Dark, Cool, Quiet Film Festival, Seattle Art Fair, NW Film Forum, Seattle, WA Face Me, Axis Gallery, Seattle, WA 2013 GOOD Cities Billboard Commission, GOOD Magazine & Ford Motor Company, Seattle, WA Wynwood Guerrilla Projection Project, Miami, FL 2012 I made you. I loved you. I destroyed you. Belltown Collective, Seattle, WA Microsoft Gigapixel ArtZoom Citywide Art Project, Seattle, WA SlideLuck10, Axis Gallery, Seattle, WA Seattle Art Museum’s Set the Table, Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, WA 2011 our Dreams Are Our Burden, City Arts Festival, Seattle, WA Wrangelia: The Art of Breakup, MTS Gallery, Anchorage, AK 2010 Portrait: Self Portrait, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK The Artists Have Left the Building, MTS Gallery, Anchorage, AK 52 Faces Permanent Outdoor Public Commission Unveiling, Municipality of Anchorage 2009 Sexta Mutacion, Neomutatis Gallery, Lima, Peru 367 lbs of wax. MTS Gallery, Anchorage, AK 2008 Words & Pictures, Bunnell Street Gallery, Homer, AK The Berth, Video installation, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK The Green Bench, site-specific video installation, Public Transit Headquarters, Anchorage, AK BIBLIOGRAPHY 2020 Filmmaker Spotlight, Interview in Arthouse Quarterly, Winter 2019 “Anna Wintour Removed Her Sunglasses for This” (B Widdicombe, The New York Times) / “ Sketching Nudes en Plein Air With the New York Academy of Art” (Z Weiss, Vogue) / “Joyce Varvatos, Art Advisor to Hollywood, Curates Hamptons Gallery Pop-Up” (L Van Straaten, Hollywood Reporter) 2018 “How Blind Contour Drawing Can Help You Become a Better Artist” (E. Hill, Artsy) / “1 Day of Art - Brooklyn” Featured artist, (t)here Magazine (Alina Lundry & Jason Makowski) 2016 Creative Alaska: A Ten-Year Retrospective of Support for Alaska Artists (Hardback. Published by University of Alaska Press) / “The New York Academy of Art’s Thrilling, Scary MFA Show” (Z. Small, Hyperallergic) 2014 “Classically-Styled Paintings Reveal How Obsessed We Are With Our Cellphones” (C. Weisenstein, The Creator’s Project, Vice Magazine) 2013 “A Caffeinated Conversation with Seattle Artist Duo KeseyPollock” (M Williams, GOOD Magazine) / The Stranger: "The Bodies' Demise, Making People, Then Melting Them Down" by Jen Graves / Crosscut: "Melting Bodies: 340 crowdfunders, one developer & 3,000 pounds of wax; KeseyPollock, a pair of Seattle's most visionary artists" by Jeremy Buben / Seattle Met: "Melting Bodies: The Ephemeral Wax Art of KeseyPollock" by Laura Dannen / CityArts: "The new hunger artists: making it in Seattle" by Amanda Manitach / Vanguard Seattle: "The Transformative Art of KeseyPollock" by Jeremy Buben / ARCADE | Dialogue on Design: KeseyPollock / GRAY Magazine: "KESEYPOLLOCK Opening Night Celebration" / Artist Trust: "KeseyPollock: Melting Bodies" / “American Hipster Presents: KeseyPollock” Short Documentary Portrait 2011 "Exeunt: MTS Gallery goes out with a bang” (D. Smith, Anchorage Press) / "Life mask sculpture records the faces of Alaskans" (MSNBC) 2010 "Wax, Faces, Video and maybe a Boob or Two" (J. Berg, Juxtapoz) / "Mountain View Mask Sculpture" (B. Hallinen, Anchorage Daily News) / "52 Faces Installed and Unveiled" (M. Lester, Anchorage Daily News) / "Residents in Resin" (D. Smith, Anchorage Press) / "Artists unveil new sculpture in Mountain View" (KTVA, TV News) / "Alaska Face Masks" (S. Y. Long, The Oregonian) / "Art As Process" (M. Dunham, Anchorage Daily News) / "Artists Pollock and Kese Photo Essay" (B. Hallinen, Anchorage Daily News) 2009 "367 lbs of wax." Documentary about KeseyPollock by More Dust Than Digital Films. / "Mt. View Artists Create Unique Melting Face Art" (video), KTUU live news coverage PRIVATE + PUBLIC COLLECTIONS ⁃ 21C Museum Hotels / Steve Wilson & Laura Lee Brown ⁃ Shaun Kardinal Art Museum ⁃ Municipality of Anchorage, AK - Public Art Collection ⁃ Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association ⁃ The John and Sheri Benke Collection ⁃ The Elizabeth Clark Zoia Collection ⁃ The Collection of Greg Lundgren ⁃ JL Properties Collection / Jonathan Rubini and Leonard Hyde ⁃ NYAA Chubb Fellowship Collection |
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