EDUCATION
• MFA 2003 Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
• BFA 1997 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California.
• Additional course work, Cornish College of Arts, Seattle, Washington 1993-1994.
AWARDS, GRANTS, & CITATIONS
• Miami-Dade County Department of Culture, Artist Stipend Award, 2022.
• Ontario Arts Council, International Residency Grant, 2011.
• Toronto Arts Council, Visual Arts Grant, 2010.
• Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant, 2010.
• Robert Watts Memorial Scholarship for Excellence in Video Art from Rutgers University, 2003.
ARTIST RESIDENCIES/FELLOWSHIPS
• Dimensions Variable Gallery, Studio Residency, Miami, FL, 2023-24.
• Open House Residency, Miami Beach, FL, 2021.
• Bakehouse Arts Complex, Studio Residency and NEA Artist Development Grant, Miami, FL, 2016.
• Banff Centre Residency, Calgary, Alberta, 2012.
• Millay Colony Residency, Austerlitz, NY, 2011.
• Threewalls Residency, Chicago IL., 2011.
• Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency and Fellowship, Amherst, VA., 2011.
• Atlantic Center for the Arts #136 with Master-Artist Jean-Marc Bustamante, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, February-March 2010. Made possible with funds granted from the Center and the Joan Mitchel Foundation.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Toronto Metropolitan University
• Introduction to Design Thinking, Winter 2024.
• Visual Arts: Concepts and Theories, Fall 2023.
University of Miami
• 3d Design (foundations), 2019-2023.
• Art History Survey, Ancient to Early Renaissance, 2017.
• Intro to Electronic Media, 2017.
• Intro to Graphic Design, 2017.
Florida International University
• Visual Thinking (advanced seminar), 2016.
• Thesis Exhibition (exhibition seminar), 2016.
• 2d Design (foundations), 2016.
• Experimental Video 2015-2016.
• Intro to 4d Arts (Performance, video, installation), 2015-2016.
Miami Dade College, Kendall Campus
• Intro to Life Drawing, 2016.
• Art Appreciation, 2016-2019.
• Cinema Appreciation, 2017.
Art Institute International, Miami
• Video Production, 2015.
Rutgers University, Mason School of the Arts, New Jersey
• Introduction to Video Art (studio), 2001-2003.
• Computer Graphics, 2001-2002.
NOTABLE EXPERIENCE
• Miami Rail, Exhibition Reviews Editor and Contributor 2016-2018.
• Contributing Writer, Surface Design Magazine
• Media Generator (media production supervisor), University of Toronto, Mississauga, 2009-2010.
• Head Preparator, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, NYC
• Head Preparator, Stefania Bortolami Gallery, NYC
• Videographer and Production, Cal-State Hayward, California, 1999-2000.
• Video Editing Internship, H-Gun Production, San Francisco, CA, 1998.
EXHIBITION HISTORY
Solo Exhibitions, Two-Person Shows and Projects
2023
• Made in Miami art pavilions for Miami Basel Art Week, Miami, FL.
2022
• DON’T GO, Bass Art Museum, Miami Beach, FL, solo public sculpture project commissioned by O, Miami poetry festival (installed 14 months, 2022-2023)
• Le lendemain de l’incendie / The Day After the Fire, with Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik, curated by Steve Giasson, Centre Skol, Montreal, QB.
• ENDLESSSUMMER, Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL.
2020
• Nothing Was the Same Before, Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL.
2015
• Dos Equis, Placeholder Gallery, Miami, FL.
• An Invisible Man, University of Miami, Wynwood Gallery.
• (I), Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL.
2014
• The I-Phone Monologues, Spoke Gallery, in conjunction w/Threewalls, Chicago, IL.
• An Economy, Public Space 1, Iowa City, IA.
• Joke Drawings and Poems, Prairie Lights, Iowa City, IA.
2010
• The Bermuda Triangle, Solo Exhibition, Mercer Union Centre for Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON.
2000
• Flash, Four Walls, San Francisco, CA.
Group Exhibitions
2023
• Sinking Feeling, curated by Heather Diack, at Or Gallery; jury selected featured exhibition for Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver, BC.
• Making Miami, temporary exhibition space for Miami Art Week, Miami, FL.
2022
• Phraseology, the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL.
2020
• Collabo Six… ALL IN!, MANA Contemporary, Miami, FL.
2017
• All the Right Moves, at Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin, Germany.
2016
• Lost Village, at Vizcaya Museum, Miami, FL.
• Place Art Here, Group Show, Placeholder Gallery, Miami, FL.
• CoWorker, Group show, Swamp Space, Miami, FL.
• Iffy Conditions, Garden Apartment Gallery, Chicago.
2012
• Bad for Me, Shizaru, London, UK.
• Daylight Savings, Banff Centre, Banff, AB.
• I’m So Goth I’m Dead, Queens Nails, San Francisco, CA.
2011
• Heat Island, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY.
• Noir Now, New School, New York, NY.
• Renovation Creep, Antenna Gallery, Chicago, IL.
• INside OUT, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL.
2010
• In the Basement, Toronto Free Gallery, Toronto, ON.
• Gone to The Other Side, Prairie Lights, Iowa City, Iowa.
2009
• Conceptual Furniture, at the DepArtment, Toronto, ON.
2008
• Black Milk, Milk Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2007
• Wall + Paper, Xpace Gallery, Toronto, ON.
• Bananas, Bob Linder, New York, NY.
2006
• Face-Off, One-Night Stand, Brooklyn, NY.
• Actions 2., Five Miles, Brooklyn, NY.
2005
• Actions, Five Miles, Brooklyn, NY.
2003
• Rutgers in New York. Curated by Syd Sachs, Bill Maines Gallery, New York, NY. College Art Association MFA Exhibition, Hunter College Gallery, New York, NY.
• Bay Area Now, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
As Curator/Organizer
2016
• Florida International University BFA Thesis Exhibition, Miami Beach Urban Studios Gallery, FL.
2015
• Flux Spaghetti, Placeholder Gallery, Miami, FL.
2011
• Renovation Creep, Antenna Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2010
• In the Basement, Toronto Free Gallery, Toronto, ON.
2009
• Conceptual Furniture, the DepArtment, Toronto, ON.
2007
• the Office, co-organized with Ethan Sklar, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY.
ILLUSTRATED PUBLICATIONS/ARTIST BOOKS
• NATIONALGEOGRAPHIC, (Seattle, WA: Alephactory Press, 2021). (154 pages)
• Military Maneuvers and Tree Lined Streets, cover art and illustrations, text by Ian Wolff, 2007.
• Certain Considerations, cover art, text by Ian Wolff, 2010.
REVIEWS RECEIVED
· Harper’s Bazaar, “The Fashion World Guide to Art Basel Miami Beach: Ten things everyone will be talking about,” by Alison S. Cohn, November 28, 2022.
· El Nuevo Herald, “Exhibiciones con artistas poco convencionales en el sur de la Florida,” August 28, 2022.
· Bert Stabler, “Renovation Creep”, New City Art, August 2011.
· Natalie Hegert, “Heat Island”, Artslant, June 2011.
· Certain Considerations (cover illustration), text by Ian Wolf, 2011.
· R.M. Vaughan, The Exhibitionist, Globe and Mail, 18 June 2010.
· Leah Sandals, At the Galleries: Art of War, National Post, 18 June 2010.
· Terrence Dick, “Erin Thurlow & Alex Hubbard at Mercer Union,” Akimbo Blog, 9 June 2010.
EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
• Sinking Feeling, essay by Heather Diack, Or Gallery, Vancouver, 2023.
• Erin Thurlow: The Bermuda Triangle, essay by Sarah Robayo Sheridan, Mercer Union Centre for Contemporary Art, 2010.
• More Simple, More Fun, Exhibition catalogue from INside-OUT, Atlantic Center for the Arts, 2010.
• BlackMilk. Exhibition Catalog, Copenhagan, DK: Milk Contemporary, 2008.
• Bay Area Now 2, San Francisco: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 1999.