ERICA SHIRES
b. Detroit MI, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
erica@ericashires.com
www.ericashires.com

EDUCATION

2021 MFA, Digital and Interdisciplinary Art Practice, The City College, CUNY, New York, NY
2001 BFA, Photography w/ Art History Minor, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2000 Wet-plate Collodion Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY,

SCREENINGS

2023 Roadside Picnic, Aesthetica Short Film Festival Official Selection, York, UK
2021 Black Movement Library: Movement Portraits, Outdoor Performance and Projection, Brooklyn Central Library Plaza, Brooklyn, NY
Master’s Thesis Exhibition, City College of New York CUNY, New York, NY
2020 Silvia, ScreenDance Festival, Dansmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden
2017 TIFA, Projection, ICA Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

EXHIBITIONS

2024 (Forthcoming Solo) ZiF Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld, Germany
2023 ELSA Artspace, Bielefeld, Germany Thingstätten, Deutsches Haus at NYU, New York, NY
2022 NYFA: Demystifying NFTs, BRIDGE++, Voxels, Metaverse
NYFA: Demystifying NFTs, ChaShaMa Presentation Space, New York, NY
DIAP++, Compton-Goethals Gallery, City College, New York, NY
2021 Ghosts Disappear Like Light, Solo Exhibition, El Nido Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
2020 In Your Absence Something Can Be Born, El Nido Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
Agent of Ordinary Pleasures, The Lodge, Los Angeles, CA
2019 The Analog Moment, Elsa Art Space, Bielefeld, Germany
FotoFever, Casa Regis, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
2018 Art Elevated, Garment District, New York, NY
2017 Negative Space, Brooklyn Grain, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Rising Waters 2.0, Slideshow, The City Museum of NY, New York, NY
2010 Inconvenient Youth, Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography, Detroit, MI
2009 The Foto8 Summer Show, HOST Gallery, London, UK
BOVA Images Festival, Palazzo Mesiani-Mazzacuva, Bova, RC, Italy
2007 Options within Realism, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York City, NY
2006 Topography of Light, Gallery Sakiko, New York, NY
Chick Flick, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
Women in Perspective, Bredene, Belgium
Depth of Field, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Foto2005 Antwerp, windows along Kammenstraat, Antwerp, Belgium
Women in Perspective, Ravenstein gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Recontres d’Arles, Hype Gallery, Arles, France
Fotofestiwal, LDK, Lodz, Poland
Brooklyn Underground Film Festival, Brooklyn Lyceum, Brooklyn, NY

RESIDENCIES

2023 ZiF Center for Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship, Bielefeld, Germany, Sept- Dec
2023 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Governors Island, NYC, April – July
2019 Casa Regis, Mosso Santa Maria, Italy, July
2017 Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn, NY, March 2017 – January 2018 

AWARDS

2023 Official Selection Aesthetica Short Film Festival, Roadside Picnic, Laurels, York, UK
2021 European Heritage Award, Special Mention Research, Thingstätten | The Relevance of the Past for the Present, Germany
2020 Connor Merit Scholarship, City College (CUNY)
Connor Fellowship, City College (CUNY)
Official Selection ScreenDance Festival, Laurels for 1 Minute video, Stockholm, SE
2019 Connor Fellowship, City College (CUNY)
Official Selection ScreenDance Festival, Laurels for 6 Animated GIFs, Stockholm, SE
2018 Official Selection ScreenDance Festival, Laurels for 5 Animated GIFs, Stockholm, SE
2014 Grand Prize and Curator’s Choice for Video, Maine Media, Rockport, ME

LECTURES

2014 Pratt Institute, Panel Discussion, Brooklyn, NY
2011 FH Bielefeld, Lecture, Bielefeld, Germany UC Santa Cruz, Lecture, Santa Cruz, CA
2009 Pratt Institute, Lecture, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Columbia College, Lecture, Chicago, IL
2006 PDN 30, Panel Discussion, School of Visual Arts, NYC

PUBLICATIONS

Bosse, Katharina, ed. Thingstätten | The Relevance of the Past for the Present, Germany: KERBER Verleg, June 2020
PHOTONEWS: Zeitung Für Fotografie, May 2019
Unvael Journal, Issue 4, November 2018
Communication Arts, Menlo Park, CA, January 2014
Portfolio ShowCase Volume 5, Center for Fine Art Photography 2012
American Photography #26, #24, #21, Amilus Inc., New York, NY 2010, 2008, 2005
Foto8, London, UK, pp 48-61, Nov 2009

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2023 SU-CASA Creative Aging, Brooklyn Arts Council, JASA Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Adjunct Assistant Professor, The City College of New York, CUNY, New York, NY
2021 Mentor SYEP participants, Hunter College on Governors Island, CUNY, New York, NY
2020 TA, Color Photography, The City College of New York, CUNY, New York, NY
2017 TPW, Workshop – Photography/Video, Letting Go, Tuscany, IT
2014-16 Board Member, Newburgh Preservation Association, Newburgh, NY
2001-22 Freelance Fashion and Advertising Photographer, New York, NY