Erica Eyres (born 1980) is a Canadian artist who lives and works in
Glasgow
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.
Biography
Eyres was born in
Winnipeg
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University of Manitoba
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Glasgow School of Art
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. In her art, she works with videos, drawings, sculptures and ceramics. Eyres has had solo exhibitions in London, in Winnipeg, in Glasgow at the Centre for Contemporary Arts and in Germany at the . Her work was also shown at the Swab Contemporary Art Show in
Barcelona
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in 2008 and at the
Akureyri Art Museum
The Akureyri Art Museum ( is, Listasafnið á Akureyri , regionally also ) was founded in 1993. The museum is located in the center of Akureyri, the second-largest city in Iceland. Originally home to a dairy, the building which houses the galler ...
in Iceland.
She produced a series of drawings based on studio photographs which were taken by her father during the 1970s. In 2012, she developed a video which reconstructed an episode of the television show ''
Dallas
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'' using Scottish children as actors. In 2014, she collaborated with Icelandic artist Sigga Björg Sigurðardóttir in an installation at the art museum called ''Sniffer''. Her work can be both humorous and unsettling.
She was nominated for a
Beck's Futures
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Prior to the establishment of the prize in 2000, Beck's had sponsored several exhibitions of con ...
award in 2006. In the same year, she received a Dewar Arts Award. In 2017, she appeared on the long list for a
Sobey Art Award The Sobey Art Award is Canada's largest prize for young Canadian artists. It is named after Canadian businessperson and art collector Frank H. Sobey, who established The Sobey Art Foundation. It is an annual prize given to an artist 40 and under wh ...