Eric Lawton is an artist and curator living and working in Brooklyn, New York and St. Louis, Missouri.
His practice focuses on elevating and isolating everyday found materials to reveal traces and vulnerabilities of the human experience.
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Education
2015 Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York, NY
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honors, Photography & Imaging
Exhibitions
2017 Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re, Brooklyn, NY (September 2017)
2017 InFocus Exhibition of Self-Published Photobooks, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
2015 6th Annual Contemporary Photography Exhibition, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA
2015 Beyond Love, Platinum Love by St. James Cavalier for Creativity, Valletta, Malta
2015 Shadow and Light, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2015 Show One, Thesis Exhibition, Gulf + Western Gallery, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY
2014 It Is Only Natural, Of Course, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Curatorial
2024 A Cherished Haunting, New Collectors, New York, NY
2021 A Forged and Delicate Future, Robert Capa Center, Budapest, Hungary
2019 Valley of the Strange, Parallel Review, Lisbon Portugal
2019 Valley of the Strange, ISSP Gallery, Riga Latvia
2017 Discursive Selves, New York, NY
Fellowships
2018 - 2021 Parallel Platform Emerging Curator
Publications
2015 Lucid Light
Press
2021 Delo, “Visions of the future - European Photographic Network Brings Together Creators, Curators and Institutions (Slovenian)” | English
2019 LSM, “Breaking Expectations: Interview with Eric Lawton (Latvian)” | English
2017 Hyperallergic, “Capturing Fragments of Identity”
2016 Ain't Bad Magazine, "What We've Found: Baby, I Love You"
2016 Adult Magazine, "Exclusive: Eric Lawton"
2016 Fraction Magazine, "Issue 84"
2015 Trip Magazine, “Lucid Light”
2015 Radiozoa Magazine, “Eric Lawton”
2015 Fraction Magazine, “Issue 74”
2015 Platinum Love Magazine, “Eric Lawton - Beyond Love Malta”
2015 Fotografia Magazine, “Today on the #FotoSatellite - Lucid Light by Eric Lawton”
2015 Old Magazine, "Eric Lawton"
2015 Self Publish Be Happy, “SPBH ♥ Eric Lawton”