Bio

"An intrepid scavenger of visual artifacts in which memory, melancholia and madness invoke a visionary topography where the mortality of dreams engender germinal quotients of relativist understanding, Erik Foss locates the fearful symmetries lurking within the miasma of pop culture at the nexus where representation and witness converge. With the raw vernacular of the streets, Foss makes fine art fodder of the smug complacency and delusional democracy by which our failing empire lulls itself to terminal sleep. How else might we read his bold re-imagining of our national emblem, the American flag, as a composite of needy pleas and desperate amusements culled from the signs of begging homeless? His is the itinerant semiotics of national shame reeking behind spectacle of patriotic glory." – Carlo McCormick

solo:

Mallick Williams & Co. "Avarice" (New York, NY) Sep. 11

Gallery Steinsland Berliner "Americanized" (Stolkholm, Sweden) Sep. 10

Gallery 3 "Unseen On Tv" San Fransisco (use) November 09

Gallery 3 "Smokem If You Gotem" San Fransisco (usa) November 08

group:

Space 15 Twenty "Arts & Leisure" Los Angeles (USA) Aug 11

Spencer Brownstone Gallery "Joy Ride" New York (USA) 11

West Cork Arts Center "Cutters" (Ireland) Feb 11

The Hole Gallery "Postermat" New York (USA) Dec 10

Anonymous Gallery "SCOPE Art Fair" Miami (USA) Dec 10

Gallery Steinsland Berliner "Winter Group Show" (Stolkholm, Sweden) Dec. 10

Subliminal Gallery "Wreck the Walls" New York (USA) Dec 10

DMax Fish "This is were we get off" New York (USA) Nov 10

orian Gray "Sounds in the Distance" New York (USA) Nov. 10

The Hole Gallery "NOT QUITE OPEN FOR BUSINESS" New York (USA) June 10

Perry Rubenstein Gallery "Shred" New York (USA) July 10

Pool Gallery " Cutters" Berlin Germany (EUR) May 10

Anonymous Gallery "N'AP Boule - Benefit For The People Of Haiti" New York (USA) Mar. 10

Morono Kiang Gallery "Joy Ride" Los Angeles (USA) 10

White Box "Badlands" New York (USA) Aug. 09

Deitch Projects "Dash Snow Memorial Show' New York (USA) June 09

Sloan Fine Art "+2" New York (USA) June 09

V 1 Gallery "The New Yorkers" Copenhagen Denmark (EUR) May 09

Participant, Inc."Yuko Sueta Art Auction Benefit" New York (USA) April 09

Shooting Gallery Scope New York / Armory New York (USA) Mar 09

White Walls Gallery "Winter Group Show" San Fransisco Ca. (USA) Dec 09

New Image Art "14 Artists" Los Angelas Ca. (USA) Nov. 09

Asian Song Society (A.S.S.) "I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl" New York (USE) Aug. 08

Shooting Gallery Aqua Art Miami Miami Fl. (USA) Dec 08

O.H.W.O.W. "IT AINT FAIR" Miami Fl. (USA) Dec 08

Cinders Gallery "Move #16" New York (USA) May 08

Anonymous Gallery "Piece Process" New york (USA) Dec 08

Colette "Joy Ride" Paris (FRANCE) 07

Jonathan LeVine Gallery "16th. Annual Swap Meet" New york (USA) Mar. 07

Williamsburg Art & Historical Center "8th. Annual Salon Part 3" New York (USA) May 05

313 Gallery (CBGB"S Gallery) "Subculture" New York (USA) Sep. 2000

press:

New York Times Magazine

New York Times East Village Local

San Francisco Arts Quarterly