Artist Info
Erica Lord
The School for Advanced Research was pleased to welcome Erica Lord as the 2008 Eric and Barbara Dobkin Fellow.
Erica Lord (Athabaskan/Iñupiaq) was born in Alaska, but abiding to her cultural tradition of nomadic living, spent the rest of her years bouncing both physically and metaphorically between her home village in Alaska and the Finnish-American nucleus of Upper Michigan. An interdisciplinary artist, Lord explores the ideas and concepts that grow from the experience of living with a multi-faced identity. Lord explores race, ethnicity, gender, and memory, hoping that through generous doses of narcissism, she will find answers. Lord has exhibited in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, the Carl N. Gorman Museum, and the Schopf Gallery on Lake in Chicago. She received a B.A. from Carleton College in 2001 and an MFA in Sculpture/Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was most recently a professor of visual arts at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington but has returned to her nomadic roots and is currently investigating her interests in the second season of Twin Peaks, Hip-Hop, Sassy magazine, and her life goal of becoming the world champion of mechanical bull riding.
