Eric PICKERSGILL

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 Removed, Compiler Pop-Up Series, Barcelona Edition, Nou-Studios, Barcelona, Spain

Removed, Compiler Pop-Up Series, Austin Edition, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX

2019 Removed, ART SOUTERRAIN, Montreal Quebec, Canada

Removed, Hillsboro Brookwood Library, Hillsboro, OR

Removed, Lookup Pop Up, Palette Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2018 Removed, The World Economic Forum ASEAN Summit, Hanoi, Vietnam

2017 NoShow, The Médiathèque / Mérignac Photographic Festival, Mérignac, France

2016 Removed, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY

2015 Removed, John and June Allcott Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC

Constructing Archives, The Carrack Modern Art, Durham, NC

Endec - Off the Radar, Golden Belt Studios, Durham, NC

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 Breaking News? how the smartphone changed journalism, The Media Majlis at Northwestern University, Qatar

Hello, Robot. Design between man and machine, Nouveau Musée Bienne, Neues Museum Biel, Biel, Switzerland

If 6: RWFA Artists and Guests, Rick Wester Fine Art, Inc., New York, NY

2020 Design for Change, MAK Design Lab, Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria

Americans Looking In, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY

Athens Digital arts Festival 16th edition, Technotribalism, Athens, Greece

Picture in Picture, Cassilhaus Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC

2019 The Qualities of LIGHT: The Story of a Pioneering New York City Photography Gallery, The Center for Creative Photography, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

Hello, Robot. Design between man and machine, V&A Dundee, Dundee, Scotland

Hello, Robot. Design between man and machine, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal

The Space Between, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

Time After Time, QUAID Gallery, Tampa, FL

Hello, Robot. Design between man and machine, San Telmo Museoa, San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, Spain

New Blood: Recent Discoveries from the Cassilhaus Collection, Cassilhaus Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC Eyes on Main Street, Wilson, NC

New Blood: Recent Discoveries from the Cassilhaus Collection, Kontek, Durham, NC

2018 I to Eye - Together or Alone, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Diapositive, Cassilhaus Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC

INTERFACE, NEO:gallery / Greater Manchester, UK

Hello, Robot. Design between man and machine, Gewerbemuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

Zenith Nadir, Smart Series Gallery, Charlotte, NC

Eyes on Main Street, Wilson, NC

2017 Here I live, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg Russia

Hello, Robot. Design between man and machine,* Traveling exhibition, The Design Museum Gent, Gent, Belgium; Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria; Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany

As Entertaining As Possible, Testbed 2 Cultural Creative Park / Chongqing, China

The Photography Show at AIPAD, Rick Wester Fine Art / New York, NY

2016 The Merchandise Revolt, Lianzhou Foto Festival, Lianzhou, China

reset, Garis and Hahn, New York, NY

Actual Size: Exploring the Photographic Contact Print, Cassihaus Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC

Future Tense, 516ARTS, Albuquerque, NM

The Photography Show at AIPAD, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY

The Members Show, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC

2015 PULSE Contemporary Art Fair, Rick Wester Fine Art, Miami, FL

EUREKA!, John and June Allcott Gery, Chapel Hill, NC

BEYOND CAMERAS, Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill, NC

Neo-Pre-Post-Contra-Para-Anti-Hyper-Pro-Trans-Ultra-Photography, Spectre Arts, Durham, NC

Virtual Insanity, Whitdel Arts, Detroit, MI

Regarding Leisure, The University of Northern Florida Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, FL

The Land of No Things: Selected Works by the MFA Class of 2015, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC

2015 Annual Auction Exhibition, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC

R.E.C.A.P, The Carrack Modern Art, Durham, NC

2014 Press Street & The Blue Library, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Pixel and Grain: Regional Photography Exhibition, Durham Art Guild - SunTrust Gallery, Durham, NC

Art Nouveau Winston-Salem 3rd Annual Exhibition, Womble Carlyle Gallery, Winston Salem, NC

Faraway Nearby: Duke and UNC-CH MFA Photography Faculty, Cassilhaus, Chapel Hill, NC

Between the Eyes, Allcott Student Gallery-Hanes Art Center, Chapel Hill, NC

Bring Your Own Slide Carousel, The Plaza,Chapel Hill, NC

That Makes Me Nervous, Chapel Hill Underground, Chapel Hill, NC

2013The Icon Industry: The Visual Economy of Human Rights, The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, Durham, NC

Park Pictures, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC

2011 Manifest 2011 BA + BFA PHOTO EXHIBITION, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL

CONTACT: an exhibition of 19th century photographic processes, LivingRoom Gallery, Chicago, IL

2010 Relative Exposure: Photographs of Family, 310conTEMPORARY Gallery, Chicago, IL

NEEDLESS SUFFERING, The Drawing Room Gallery at The Hopkinson House, Chicago, IL

Images of Home, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL

Low Tech *(Directors Choice Award), The Center for Fine Art

AWARDS

ASC - Regional Artist Project Grant, ‘19

Review Santa Fe 100 Photographers, ‘15

NCMA - Park Pictures Award, ‘13
 

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

The Joseph M. Cohen Family Collection

JPMorgan Chase Art Collection

Cassilhaus Gallery

Living Room Gallery

Anne-Marie Ombregt

Columbia College Chicago

The Blue Library – RM220

UNC Chapel Hill / Sloan Art Library

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

July-August 2014, Artist in Residence, The Contemporary Artists Center, Troy, NY

June 2014, Artist in Residence, Starry Night Retreat, Truth or Consequences, NM

ARTIST TALKS AND LECTURES

World Economic Forum ASEAN Summit, Ha Noi, Vietnam

Gujral Foundation, New Delhi, India

Garis and Hahn, New York, NY

Cassilhaus Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC

Kibbitznest, Chicago, IL

TEDxPantheonSorbonne ’16, Paris, France

TEDxBend ‘16, Bend, Oregon

AIPAD ‘16, The Photography Show, NY

Columbia College Chicago

The Carrack, Durham, NC

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Art Institute of Charlotte

The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC

Winthrop University

PORTFOLIO REVIEWER

Atlanta Celebrates Photography ‘16

Portfolio Throw Down '16, The Light Factory

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

photograph, (Exhibition Review) May/June 2016 pg. 82

As Entertaining As Possible, (Exhibition Catalog), Lianzhou Photography Festival, China / November 2016 pg. 72-75

DM. Magazine, 14 November 2015, pg. 35-39

Publik-Forum, Germany, pg. 40-42

Amateur Photographer, London, January 2016, pg. 29-31

Beobachter, April 2016, pg. 16-23

Resource, Summer 2016, pg. 51-59

VANITY FAIR, 28 October 2015, Italy, pg. 52

emotion, April 2016, Germany, pg. 13

Digitale Depression, 2016, mvg Verlag, pg. 190

CURATORIAL

Fall 2014 THEY THEM, Photographs from the Cassilhaus Collection, Cassilhaus Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC

PRESS

Busniess Insider, Andrew Stern, 19 October, 2015. These Surreal Photos Show How Addicted We Are To Our Devices. 

Techly, Tristan Rayner,  8 October, 2015. ‘Removed’: A Surreal Photo Series Shows Our Deep Addiction To Our Devices.

Tech Insider Andrew Stern, 7 October, 2015. These Surreal Photos Show How Addicted We Are To Our Devices.

South x Southeast photomagazine. Recent Work by Eric Pickersgill. 

WUNC North Carolina Public Radio, Anitan Rao and Frank Stasio, 13 May, 2015. The Land Of No Things. 

Digital America. Removed: Eric Pickersgill. 

FotoFilmic 

Long division, Issue 1 

NCMA Park Pictures 

The Center for Fine Art Photography, Perspectives 

Winston-Salem Journal, Tom Patterson, 25 October, 2014. Latest Annual Show By Promising North Carolina Artists Under 40.

EDUCATION

2015 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Master of Fine Arts

2011 Columbia College Chicago, Bachelor of Fine Arts - Photography