VALS Visiting Artist Lecture Series with eri king

VALS Visiting Artist Lecture Series with eri king

Join us for an exciting evening as we welcome eri king to the VALS Visiting Artist Lecture Series at Dock 72 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Hosted by our Fine Arts MFA program, VALS is one of several free and open-to-the-public events we offer each year. Follow us on Instagram @prattfineart to see what’s coming up, and we look forward to welcoming you soon!

eri king received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art and Art History from the University of Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2011 and her Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Hunter College in 2018. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. King is one half of the collaborative art duo Eridan, alongside NY-based artist Daniel Greer, and is a member-curator at Field of Play Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.

From 2011 to 2014, she was the co-founder and curator of the artist-run spaces 5th Wall Gallery and Project Space in Las Vegas. She has had solo exhibitions at Winchester Cultural Center Gallery, Las Vegas, NV (2013); Miranda Kuo Gallery, New York, NY (2016); Shiro Oni Studio, Gunma, Japan (2017); Catskills Gallery, New York, NY (2021); and ASAP Gallery, Las Vegas, NV (2024).

Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including Lined & Torn at the Marjorie Barrick Museum (2024), Off the Grid, 5-50 Gallery, NYC (2024), The Big Duck, Carracci Art Gallery, NYC (2022), Spring/Break Art Show in NYC (2021, 2023, 2024), Financial Times’ Global Boardroom, UK (2020), the London Biennale in Nevada (2012, 2020), and the Every Woman Biennial (2019), among others. Her work is part of the permanent collection at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Previous VALS artists include:
Diana Al-Hadid, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Judith Bernstein, Michael Berryhill, Wafaa Bilal, The Black School, Flaviu Cacoveanu, Pradeep Dalal, Abigail D. Deville, Nicole Eisenman, Florencia Escudero, Rochelle Feinstein, Keltie Ferris, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Schezerade Garcia, Rico Gatson, Jeffrey Gibson, Mark Thomas Gibson, Nancy Grossman, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Edgar Heap of Birds, James Hyde, Laura Kalman, Nina Katchadourian, Elektra KB, Baseera Khan, Savannah Knoop, Leigh Ledare, Jennie Jieun Lee, Ann Lewis, Tau Lewis, Kalup Linzey, Ibrahim Mahama, Park McArthur, Alicia Mersy, Wardell Milan, Ayanah Moor, Lavar Munroe, Narcissister, Rashaad Newsome, Catherine Opie, Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, Alexis Rockman, Aura Satz, Shazia Sikander, Lorna Simpson, Nyugen E. Smith, Wendy Red Star, Dan Walsh, Hu Xiangqian, and Frank Wang Yefen.

We are grateful to the Robert Lehman Foundation for supporting this series.

This event is open to the public.