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Erik Parker

Like Ray Yoshida, one of the Chicago Imagists, and Tadanori Yokoo, described as the "Japanese Andy Warhol," Parker has developed a distinct visual vocabulary, through the manipulation of found images and an interest in popular culture produced during eras of social, political, and economic revolution. As Yoshida did, Parker does also – avidly collecting objects and images that are considered outside the boundaries of traditional art and incorporating them into the work. Any object or image from comic books, popular culture, pornography, may inspire and encourage the discovery of new and personal interpretations.


Parker was born in Stuttgart, Germany and studied at the University of Texas at Austin and SUNY Purchase, New York. Recent solo exhibitions include the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth, and Upswing Dub Project at Pace Prints, NY. The artist has also participated in group exhibitions at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Phoenix Art Museum, and the San Antonio Museum of Art.

Born 1968
Hometown Stuttgart, Germany
Lives and Works New York, NY
Education
MFA, SUNY Purchase College, Westchester, NY, 1998
BFA, University of Texas at Austin, TX, 1996
Permanent Collection

Art, Design and Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

The Brooklyn Museum, NY

Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Diezy7 Collection, Sala Naos, Santander Spain

Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, DK

The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA

Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Montreal, Canada

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

New York Public Library, New York, NY

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia

Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY

Queens Museum, NY

Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI

RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI

San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NY

Representing Galleries

Honor Fraser, Los Angeles

Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

SHOWS

Mary Boone Gallery

New York
Jan 10 2019 - Mar 02 2019

Erik Parker - New Soul

Galerie Anne de Villepoix

Paris
Jun 03 2016 - Jul 30 2016

WHO CARES ?

Paul Kasmin Gallery


Dec 09 2015 - Jan 23 2016

Undertow
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