Erica Podwoiski
American, b. Wayne, MI 1988
Lives and works in Longmont, CO
| Education |
2017 MFA, Painting & Drawing, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO
2010 BFA, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH
| Selected Exhibitions |
2025
FRC19, Flat Rate Contemporary, Online Exhibition
Firehouse Filth Show, Firehouse Art Center, Longmont, CO
2024
Under the Cold Moon, Installation at Dairy Arts Center, Boulder, CO
Blue Whispers, Firehouse Art Center, Longmont, CO (solo)
Breaking Boundaries of Body Exclusivity, Bus Stop Gallery, Boulder, CO
Firehouse Filth Show, Firehouse Art Center, Longmont, CO
2023
DILF (Damn I Love Frogs), Dateline, Denver, CO
In the Flesh, The Banshee House, Denver, CO
Little Creatures, Boulder Public Library, Boulder, CO
Teeth & Hair, Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI
FRC16, Flat Rate Contemporary, Online Exhibition
2022
Anonymous Drawings, Galerie Im Kornerpark, Berlin-Neukölln, Germany
2021
Gaze, Arts to Hearts Project, Online Exhibition
Every Woman Biennial MY LOVE IS YOUR LOVE, Superchief Gallery, New York, NY
2020
Resonant Strangeness, Marram Arts, UK, Online Exhibition
Looking at You, Art Gym, Denver, CO, Online Exhibition
PaperView, Virtual FlatFile
2019
Weeded, Hey Hue Pop-up at Dairy Arts Center, Boulder, CO
2018
The Body Project, Collaboration with Studio Project Internship Program, BMoCA, Boulder, CO
GIFC, Traveling Exhibition, 0-0 LA
Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll, Hey Hue Pop-up Art Truck, Denver, CO
Nasty Ink, Cabal Gallery, Denver, CO (solo)
2017
Great Expectations, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Colorado Springs, CO
MFA Thesis Show, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO
2016
Play Nice: Visual Notions on Gender, Good Thieves Press, Denver, CO
The Nowness: King Exhibition, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO
2015
1st Annual Holiday Art Auction, The Jensdotter Project, Boulder, CO
Vacancy? no, The Newhouse Hotel, Denver, CO
Wish List, The Gallery Project, Toledo, OH / Ann Arbor, MI
Face 2 Face, The White Cube Gallery, Naropa University, Boulder, CO
The Selfie Show, Museum of New Art, Troy, MI
2013
91st Annual All Media Exhibition, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
The Power of Myth, Ferndale Public Library, Ferndale, MI
7th Annual Member Exhibition, Northville Art House, Northville, MI
2012
Great Lakes "Small Works" Annual Juried Exhibition, Riverside Arts Center, Ypsilanti, MI
The Quantified Self, The Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
The Dirty Show: 13th Annual International Erotic Art Exhibition, Detroit, MI
New Paintings by Erica Podwoiski, Lido Gallery, Birmingham, MI
American Dream, The Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
2011
Imagined Communities, The Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
The Print: 29th Annual Juried Printmaking Exhibition, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
The Dirty Show: 12th Annual International Erotic Art Exhibition, Detroit, MI
2010
Coming of Age in an Era of Celebrity Worship, Lido Gallery, Birmingham, MI (solo)
Inside Out, Belle Isle Conservatory, Detroit, MI
CCAD Best of Senior Thesis, CCAD, Columbus, OH
pc4pc: Thesis Exhibition, Design Studios on Broad Gallery, CCAD, Columbus, OH (solo)
AICUO Award Winners Exhibition and Panel Discussion, Denison University, OH
| Awards and Residencies |
Summer Artist-in-Residence, Firehouse Art Center, Longmont, CO (July 1 - August 31, 2024)
Single Figure Third Prize, Tom of Finland Foundation Emerging Artist Competition 2022
Studio Project Teen Internship Program Artist-in-Residence, BMoCA 2018
Donna Robinson Meckley Fellowship 2015
Peoples Choice Award, Great Lakes Small Works, Riverside Arts Center 2012
CCAD Valedictorian, Summa cum Laude 2010
CCAD Outstanding Senior Award Recipient in Fine Arts 2010
EVA Winner, AICUO Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts 2010
| Experience |
Adjunct Instructor, Front Range Community College 2025
Figure Drawing
Moth-a-palooza, Educational Mothing Event co-hosted with Yan Chun Su, Sunflower Farm, Longmont, CO 2023
Art Instructor, Tinker Art Studio, Boulder, CO 2017-present
Adult classes in Figure Drawing, Acrylic Painting, Introductory Drawing and Watercolors
Botanical Watercolor Workshop (Virtual), Radical Inclusion Collective, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2022
Adjunct Instructor, University of Colorado at Boulder 2022
Figure Drawing
Adjunct Instructor, University of Colorado at Boulder 2019
Drawing I
Adjunct Instructor, University of Colorado at Boulder 2018
Advanced Painting
Graduate Part Time Instructor, University of Colorado at Boulder 2014-2017
Figure Painting, Figure Drawing, Painting I, Drawing I, Drawing for Non-Majors
Juror, Garden City Fine Arts Association Exhibit August 9, 2012
| Press/Publications |
Ella Cobb, “No snow, no problem: Celebrate the winter solstice with cowboys and cyanotypes at Boulder’s Dairy Arts Center”, Boulder Daily Camera, Dec. 12, 2024
Ella Cobb, “ArtWalk on Main, and ballerinas galore, take over downtown Longmont in a party for the people”, Boulder Daily Camera, Sept. 12, 2024
Lucky 7 Artist Interview, AfterPiece Zine, Nov. 16, 2023
Featured Artist, The Door Zine, Winter 2023
Featured Artist, Pollux Volume 10, Fall/Winter 2020
Lindsey Kline, “At University of Colorado You Can Get Your Masters Degree Painting Orgies”, Rooster Magazine, Sept. 15, 2017
Addison Herron- Wheeler, "Colorado Artist, Erica Day, Recreates Her Own World Through Paint and Passion", Culture Magazine, Nov. 3, 2015
John Carlos Cantu, "Gallery Project Exhibit Explores the Notion of 'Quantified Self'", The Ann Arbor News, September 24, 2012
Sharon Dargay, "'Coming of Age': Artist puts social networking images on canvas", Hometown Observer & Eccentric Newspapers, January 9, 2011