Erin Elyse Burns

Erin Elyse Burns is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice navigates territory within the disciplines of photography, video, and performance art. Burns often casts herself as a subject in her work in order to create experiences that evoke a sense of the picturesque, the vulnerable, and the absurd. Preoccupied with being both the seer and being seen, she explores this dual position of power that allows for a dichotomy of distanced scrutiny and inherent intimacy. Concepts of private ritual, loss, identity, and the ephemeral persist within her work.

Erin Elyse Burns has exhibited at the Tucson Museum of Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Henry Art Gallery, and the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno. Recent solo exhibitions include Eastern Washington University in Spokane and Gallery 4Culture in Seattle, WA. Recent group showings include the Behnke Gallery in Seattle, WA, Carnation Contemporary in Portland, Oregon, and Tlaxcala3 in Mexico City. Recent artist residencies include Two Dot Schoolhouse Studios in Montana, Vermont Studio Center, and the Westfjords Residency in northern Iceland. Burns has received grants from 4Culture, the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, The New Foundation Seattle, and was a Fulbright Arts Finalist. She is an Associate Professor in the Art Department at Cornish College of the Arts.

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