Erin Turner
eturnerinstal@gmail.com / www.eturnerinstal.com / 918.607.8629
Curriculum Vitae:
B. 1985
Education:
2017 MFA in Social Practice at Queens College, CUNY
2008 BA Painting, minors in Art History and Spanish, University of Tulsa
2007 Painting Program La Universidad del Museo Social Argentino
2004 Summer Painting Studio at LLOYTA, Barcelona, through The School of Visual Arts
2003-2004 Pratt Institute
Solo Shows:
2017 ‘we hang like clouds between heaven and earth, between something and nothing, sometimes with shadows, sometimes without’, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Klapper Hall Gallery, Queens College
2017 Strange Weather, The Radford University Art Museum, Radford, Virginia
2016 LAND, art exhibition at 329 Grand Street, Brooklyn
2012 Water Ballet, art exhibit and art direction for dance, Living Arts of Tulsa
2011 Hair, Dwelling Spaces, Tulsa
2011 The Totem and the Ocean, Bluxome Point Gallery, San Francisco
2010 Hair Show, Lloyd Gallery, Pawhuska
2010 e.turnity, The Eclipse, Tulsa
2009 Photo and Paint, Shades of Brown, Tulsa
2009 New Works by Erin Turner, The Wild Fork, Tulsa
2007 Caballo-Pato Fiebre, Liggett Studios, Tulsa
2005 The Romantic Life of the Common Eel, The Blue Moon, Tulsa
2003 e.turner, The Wild Fork, Tulsa
2/3-Person Shows:
2016 Protecting Our Nature and Our Sacred Land, Images from Oak Flat, Erin Turner, Floor Grootenhuis, Vansler Nosie (Standing Fox), Queens Museum, NYC
2011 Chris Mantel and Erin Turner, Tulsa
2010 Witness I: Tulsa Race Riot on-site Installation, Erin Turner and Carolyn Deuschle, Tulsa
2009 Corazon Sagrado, Erin Turner and Lydia Moore, Day of the Dead Festival at Living Arts of Tulsa
2008 Dactyl Attactyl, Erin Turner and Robert Stuart III, Scissortail Industries, Tulsa
2005 Welcome to the Jungle, Erin Turner, Margo Hoover, Carolyn Deuschle, The Space Gallery, Tulsa
Selected Group Shows:
2020 Ego to Eco, curated by Nadine Braquetti, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY (catalogue)
2019 Ecologias, curated by TIERRA: espacio para habitar, Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá, Colombia (catalogue)
2019 Perspective: Art + Floral, Skylight, Denver
2018 11th Annual Governors Island Art Fair, New York City
2017 Memories of Future Landscapes, curated by Cheon Pyo Lee, El Museo de los Sures, Brooklyn
2017 Home of Practice, James Gallery at the CUNY Graduate Center, curated by Katherine Carl and Chloe Bass
2017 Gestures & Junctures, Questions & Quotes, curated by Paul D’Agostino, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn (catalogue)
2016 Atlas, Index, Archive, curated by Adriana Pauley, Art Center, Queens College
2016 Dining with Vultures, curated by Sarah Fritchey, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn (catalogue)
2016 Material Archive, curated by Adriana Pauley and The Chimney, Klapper Gallery, Queens College
2015 CODA Paper Art Biennial at the CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands (catalogue)
2010 Crying Woman Installation, New Genre Festival XVII at the Living Arts of Tulsa
2006 Momentum Tulsa, Mathews Building, Tulsa
2006 38th Annual Gussman Awards, Alexander Hogue Gallery, Tulsa and Artists Coalition Gallery, Tulsa Performing Arts Center Gallery, Tulsa (Honorable Mention Award)
2004 Freshman Retrospective, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn (20 freshmen chosen)
Installations/Collaborations:
2023 Untitled Paper Work, Big Reuse, Brooklyn.
2019 Pico del Colibrí, collaboration with Fundación Montecito in Sogamoso, Colombia.
2018 Sculptures that Talk, Research and Public Art Project in collaboration with the Apache Stronghold of San Carlos Apache Reservation, currently in progress
2017 The Nature Perception Project, an itinerancy walk at Forest Park, Queens, Uno Nam (co-director), Jeff Kasper (Urban Planning Specialist), Lia Kim Farnsworth (artist), and Gwen Shockey (artist)
2017 CREATE, a fundraiser for AHHA (Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa, Hardesty Art Center), a collaboration with The First Ward. A series of installations and performances designed, directed, and curated.
2017 Protecting Our Nature and Our Sacred Land: in conversation with Wendsler Nosie and Apache Stronghold. Floor Grootenhuis, Vansler Nosie, Erin Turner & Social Practice Queens. A conversation at Mierle Laderman Ukeles Peace Table. Queens Museum, NYC
2016 Amphitheater Ecology with Jeff Kasper, Erin Turner, Naomi Paul, and Hilma Krla, a fabric, audio, and walking tour installation, Queen's College Amphitheater, NYC
https://qcpublicart.wordpress.com/portfolio/amphitheater-ecology/
2015 Nomads, a photography installation in Moab, Utah
2015 Ed Galloway’s Totem Pole Park Restoration, in partnership with Rogers County Historical Society and Margo Hoover
2014 A Tornado Dance with Cody Ross, Jamie Matson, Kimberly Krebs, and Amy Oelsner, directed by Erin Turner and Jacob Lincoln, Brooklyn, NY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tO1knBsLZ0
2013 Fernando Pessoa, Southern France Installation Tour
2013 Atelier Sud at Studio Tanguey
2013 Ephemeral Art Festival, part of the Harlem River Festival, Swindler’s Cove Public Art Installation
2013 Dance of the Bee, selected artist for entry-way installation at the Tulsa Children’s Museum
2012 Water Ballet a dance in collaboration with Tulsa Modern Movement (TuMM)
2012 FabLab Symposium, Tulsa
2012 Easter Island Music and Art Festival: Installation build-out
2012 Remains: Dance Installation and Performance.
2011 New Year’s Eve with Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, The Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa
2011 The Burning of the Worm, Ocean Beach, San Francisco
2011 Environmental Installation Design for Space Bar, Roberta’s Restaurant at the Scope International Gallery Festival, New York City
2011 Unknown State, Costume design for short science fiction film, Tulsa
2011 Cinder Monster, Performance and Installation, The Firehouse, Kansas City
2011 Suchness, Costume design for modern dance piece, Tulsa Modern Movement (TuMM), Tulsa
2011 A Show for the Jungle, Koh Phangan, Thailand
2011 Quetzalcoatl, Koh Phangan, Thailand
2011 Eye of the Storm, Gokarna, India
2011 Poly’s Gone, Traveling Installation, The Grand Canyon, Mohave Desert, Fort Funston
2010 Blue Demon, Permanent Installation at Elote Restaurant and Bar, Tulsa
2010 Space Worm, Olga Crespo Gallery, Wilmington, North Carolina
2010 Song of the Swimming Sun, Set Designer for Soluna Dance Company, Tulsa Performing Arts Center (catalogue)
2010 Burning Head, Performance and Installation, Yellow House, Tulsa
2010 Space Worm, This Land Press Office, Tulsa
2009 TranscenDANCE, Co-Director & Set Designer, SummerStage Festival, Performing Arts Center, Tulsa (catalogue)
Honors, Awards, Grants:
2023 Recipient of the Oklahoma Heritage Preservation Grant through the Oklahoma Historical Society for TOTEM: As Archive & Monument
2022 Recipient of USCAN grant in collaboration with Anthropocene Alliance, Sustaining Way, and New Washington Heights
2021 4heads Residency on Colonels Row, Governors Island NYC
2020 4heads Residency on Colonels Row, Governors Island NYC
2018 Residencia Nómada with TIERRA: espacio para habitar, Bogotá, Colombia
2017 Action Art Grant possible through Social Practice Queens (SPQ), the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, and the Vlcek Foundation via the Queens College Foundation
2017 Oklahoma State Historic Preservation Officer’s Citation of Merit for the Ed Galloway Totem Pole Park
2017 Selected for the 2017 Coyote Walk with Dillon de Give and the Walk Exchange, Itinerancy walk from Central Park to Rockefeller State Park Preserve
2016 Jamaica Flux: Workspaces and Windows, essay selected to be included in the printed catalogue; Observing the Anthropocene: Staring back at the Eye in the Sky, by Erin Turner
2016 Action Art Grant possible through Queen’s College, Queen's Museum, and the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation
2009 People’s Choice Awards, Tulsa
2006 Honorable Mention for Painting, 38th Annual Gussman Awards, The University of Tulsa
Selected Publications:
2017 Contributing artist, project, and writer for: Art as Social Action: An introduction to the Principles and Practices of Teaching Social Practice Art, by Gregory Sholette, Chloe Bass, and Social Practice Queens
https://hyperallergic.com/358335/why-an-apache-artists-photos-are-inextricable-from-his-activism/
2016 Jamaica Flux: Workspaces and Windows, essay selected to be included in the printed catalogue; Observing the Anthropocene: Staring back at the Eye in the Sky, by Erin Turner
http://spacesarchives.org/explore/collection/environment/totem-pole-park/
http://thislandpress.com/2012/07/28/til-the-cows-come-home/
http://thislandpress.com/2012/01/29/the-snake-and-the-diamond-are-one/
http://thislandpress.com/2011/10/01/letter-from-borneo-the-land-beneath-the-wind/
Selected Bibliography:
http://www.dorsky.org/Brochure%20PDFs/1909Poem_web.pdf
https://fineartglobe.com/artists/erin-turner-strange-weather-sculpture/
https://hyperallergic.com/458062/immerse-yourself-in-the-ghoulish-art-on-governors-island/
https://news.artnet.com/market/governors-island-art-fair-artists-to-watch-1341140
http://www.paperbagazine.com/IssueNo9/Contents.html
https://hyperallergic.com/268408/the-monumental-totem-poles-built-by-a-retired-oklahoma-art-teacher/
http://moreclaremore.com/2016/07/12/worlds-largest-totem-pole-gets-a-facelift/
http://www.allthingspaper.net/2013/10/installation-artist-erin-turner.html
http://www.brooklyndaily.com/stories/2013/17/24_newspaperartist_2013_04_26_bk.html
http://thislandpress.com/01/29/2012/the-snake-and-the-diamond-are-one/#disqus_thread
http://studiovisitmagazine.com/volume-fifteen
http://tulsadances.wordpress.com/2012/09/06/celebrating-collaborations-water-ballet/#comment-269
http://thislandpress.com/06/20/2010/guerilla-remembrance/
http://issuu.com/ovac/docs/artfocus-mayjun10
http://www.tulsapeople.com/Tulsa-People/August-2009/The-peoples-choice/
Selected Professional Experiences:
Teaching:
Visiting Artist at Radford University, workshop collaborations with choral and dance groups on Strange Weather: how we are talking about ‘Climate Change’, September 2017
Visiting Artist at Tulsa Community College, workshops on digital glitching, sun printing, and how we talk about ‘Climate Change’, April 2017
More Art Teaching Artist with ESL immigrant communities on Andrea Mastrovito’s project NYSFERATU (2017)
CASA Department of Cultural Affairs Grant for Art Education (2017)
Teaching Artist
Wingspan Arts, NYC (2012-2016)
Teaching Artist
Project Creates, Tulsa (2010-2011).
Teaching Artist
Living Arts of Tulsa, Art Core Studio Program. Tulsa (2009-2011).
Program Coordinator
Living Arts of Tulsa, New Arts Camp. Tulsa (2009).
Sculpture Artist in Residence
Other:
Project Manager and Studio Assistant for Martha Rosler (2017-2020)
Production Designer (2010-Present)
Commercial, Photo, Video, Performance Designer/Director
Restoration of Ed Galloway Totem Pole Park, (2014-Present)
Artist Assistant for Mariam Ghani on selected photographic manipulations, 2016
Artist Assistant for Anna K.E. on selected projects 2012
Water Ballet, Tulsa (2012)
Director of dance, music, video, installation, & photography
GS Productions, FLY – The Land Below the Wind, Borneo, Malaysia (2011)
Production Manager
Roberta’s, NYC (2011)
Creative design team for pop-up restaurant & Space Bar at Scope NYC 2011
Show & Tell, Tulsa (2010-2011)
Art Director, Stage Manager, Set & Costume Designer for variety television production
Swimming in the Osage, Grant McClintock. Oklahoma (2009)
Photography Assistant
Resonance, Center for Women, Inc. Tulsa (2007-2009)
Art’s Coordinator and Director for programming for at-risk women and children
Tierraviva, Assistant to Fernando “Coco” Bedoya, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2007)
Artist’s Assistant at maximum security prison, Ezeiza No. 3
Selected Panels and Presentations:
2020 Water as Witness x Water as Protagonist, Carolyn Hall, Simone Johnson, EunWoo Nam, and Erin Turner in conversation with Ashanti Chaplin, Curator of Public Engagement at Dia Arts Foundation, aired on Montez Press Radio 11.20.2020
2019 Cátedra Fulbright “Resiliencia: crisis y reorganización”, TIERRA: espacio para habitar & como enamorarse de un río, Universidad del Tolima, Colombia
2018 Open Engagement at the Queens Museum, Presentation on Sculptures That Talk, a collaboration with the Apache Stronghold
2018 Are We There Yet? Preservation of Roadside Architecture & Attractions Symposium, National Park Service, Presentation on the Ed Galloway Totem Pole Park, Tulsa City-County Library
2017 Tulsa Community College, Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Erin Turner
2017 Care as Culture: a convening bringing service work, ecofeminist art, and experts on climate change together, committee member who designed and curated this conversation at the Mierle Laderman Ukeles Peace Table, Queens Museum, NYC
2017 Protecting Our Nature and Our Sacred Land: in conversation with Wendsler Nosie and Apache Stronghold. Floor Grootenhuis, Vansler Nosie, Erin Turner & Social Practice Queens. A conversation at Mierle Laderman Ukeles Peace Table. Queens Museum, NYC
2015 Rogers County Historical Society, Guest Lecturer on Grassroots Preservation at the Ed Galloway Totem Pole Park
2016 Atlas, Index, Archive, The Art Center, Queens College Library, panelist speaking about contemporary uses of the archive
Last updated Spring 2023