Erin Elyse Burns

Erin Elyse Burns is an interdisciplinary artist working within the disciplines of photography, video, the performative gesture, and artifact. Burns often casts herself as a figure 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 by the camera, she explores this dual position of power that allows for a dichotomy of both distanced scrutiny and inherent intimacy. Concepts of private ritual, loss, identity, and the ephemeral persist within her work.

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Erin Elyse Burns holds an MFA from the University of Washington and a BFA in Interdisciplinary Visual Arts from the University of Nevada. She is an Assistant Professor in the Art Department at Cornish College of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited at Jack Straw New Media Gallery, the Tucson Museum of Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Henry Art Gallery, and the Nevada Museum of Art. Burns has participated in residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Westfjords in Iceland. She has received awards from 4Culture, the Office of Arts & Culture, The New Foundation Seattle, the Sierra Arts Foundation, the Nevada Arts Council, and she was a Fulbright Arts Finalist.

Website / erinelyse.com